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2t.jpgGaza zoo replaces zebras by painting donkeys.

Drunk man wakes up with penis tattoo on leg.

Police believe the vandals meant to carve a swastika next to President Barack Obama’s name on the 18th hole; however, the symbol was backwards and means hope and peace in some Eastern countries.

A 63-year-old homeless Russian man has gone from street life to stock market trader after collecting thousands of empty booze bottles for cash.

New study finds mustachioed Americans make more money and spend more of their income than the bearded and the cleanshaven.

Former funeral director charged with corpse abuse.

19-year-old girl chopped off her tongue inside a Shiva temple to invoke the god’s blessings to marry the person she desired instead of the match fixed by her parents.

White shark breaching about 300 yards off Sunset Blvd in LA.

New vaccine may immunize addicts from cocaine’s pleasurable effects.

Anna Nicole Smith was so weak in her final days that she was being fed Pedialyte with a baby bottle, it was revealed Tuesday.

The regulation of hypnotherapists in the UK is so lax that even a cat can become accredited.

1k.jpgZoophiles love and have sex with animals. Will the world ever accept them?

Mexico City puts 1,300 overweight police on a diet.

Alex Mensaert is addicted to amputation and his wife Melissa doesn’t mind. [videos]

Global warming and risks of severe acne. More: A complete list of things caused by global warming.

At the U.N. climate talks in Bangkok, Saudi Arabia asks for aid if world cuts dependence on oil.

Scientists propose guardrails for how far mankind can push the planet tomorrow, while others examine how far collapsed civilizations pushed it yesterday.

Report documents the risks of giant invasive snakes in the US.

Decades after Mahatma Gandhi called them Harijan (people of god), nearly 160 million Indians continue to be socially ostracised. Thousands of Dalits still clean shit with their bare hands and carry it on their heads. So how come a 9 per cent growth rate economy can’t generate alternative professions for them?

Healthy neighborhoods may be associated with lower diabetes risk.

The suicide rate among the company’s 100,000 employees is in line with France’s national average. Still, unions say that the relocation of staff to different branches of the company around France has added pressure onto employees and their families.

People who work after retiring enjoy better health, according to national study.

New study of the brain shows that facts and beliefs are processed in exactly the same way.

New research shows that memories are constantly being re-written by our minds.

Artificial black hole created in Chinese lab.

What happens when the gods of high finance dump a gigantic pile of gold on the richest university in the world? It is what actually happened to Harvard University, along with a few of its elite competitors, over the last 20 years. Related: America’s 25 douchiest colleges.

Major U.S. banks and securities firms are set to pay their employees about $140 billion this year. That’s a record level, just passing the pay levels of the boom year of 2007.

The rumours of the dollar’s death are much exaggerated.

Google CEO: We paid $1 billion premium for YouTube.

Adobe now makes it possible to create applications for the Apple iPhone using the Adobe Flash CS5.

At a time when many retailers are still cutting back or approaching strategic shifts with extreme caution, Disney is going the other way, getting more aggressive and putting into motion an expensive and ambitious floor-to-ceiling reboot of its 340 stores in the United States and Europe — as well as opening new ones, including a potential flagship in Times Square.

Bloomberg, the global financial data and news empire created by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, is the winning bidder for BusinessWeek.

When is the best time in an interview for police to reveal the evidence they have to a crime suspect?

Darwin’s On the Origin of Species evolved over the course of several editions he wrote, edited, and updated during his lifetime. This piece is a simpler version of a larger effort that looks at the changes between editions.

Two tribesmen from Papua New Guinea sued Jared Diamond, the well-known biologist and author, for $10 million in damages, claiming that he had defamed them in an April 2008 article in The New Yorker.

The significance of unity and diversity for the disciplines of Mathematics and Physics.

Clausewitz ’s On War has become something of a classic, often cited, discussed in numerous recent books, seen in the company of Sun Tzu’s Art of War (thought to be circa fourth century BC), and studied in military academies.

Shakespeare’s Othello speaks to one of the most salient confusions of our time: the conflict between transparency and secrecy.

150 different Italian pasta shapes.

Japanese restaurant’s unusual rule: You get what the person before you ordered.

Case study: A man suffered paralysis from drinking too much Earl Grey tea.

A guide to fall apples.

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Five human achievements that could top walking on the Moon.

Hirst’s solo show takes self-veneration to a new level, with the artist contributing almost $400,000 to allow the public free access to his exhibition.

Skatetown USA, 1979.

Major Lazer, “Pon De Floor.”

COCO.

Banksy painting sprayed over by graffiti artists.

Postcards from 1910 which depict life in the year 2000.

Radisson/Picasso.

What Should be Done with the Bodies of the Dead (1936).

Queer Fuckers Magazine, Salt Lake City, Utah.

I like the dog. If he can’t eat it, or fuck it, he pisses on it. Shit my dad says.





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