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Four injured in iPad fight at Beijing Apple store.

The thumb drive he gave a funeral director to play at a service was supposed to be a memorial slideshow of the person who had passed away. Instead, it contained dozens of images of child pornography.

A diamond thief was caught by a security guard during a burglary and needed a free hand to fight him off, so he swallowed the precious stone.

Heat generated by cremating bodies could be used to warm up people using a swimming pool in UK.

After she was searched, the other woman became ill and was transported to the hospital. It was there that medical staff discovered another bottle of pills and a knife hidden in a roll of fat in her stomach, as well as an additional knife hidden in her vagina.

A Bulgarian man who had his penis chopped off by his best friend while he was demonstrating his martial arts skills, is to help him get a new job - so he can pay for a new penis.

German man trapped in women’s prison rescued by mayor.

Judges in Munich found Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk guilty of assisting in the murders of thousands of Jews during World War II, but ordered his release from incarceration based on his advanced age.

A prison guard dog has been fitted with titanium teeth in Australia after losing his real ones.

Long Island killings: Detectives began looking at the NYPD cops last month after determining the killer likely worked in law enforcement or was familiar with police techniques.

A client says Greenwich Village psychic persuaded her to hand over thousands of dollars to cure herself of an unhealthy attachment to money.

48% of Fast Food Soda Fountains Contain Bacteria that Grew in Feces.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, Americans are spending about half their food budget in restaurants.

Man steals restaurant tips, then is hit by bus as he flees.

Ohio Boys Suspended For Farting On School Bus.

Can we be awake and asleep at the same time?

How the Illusion of Being Observed Can Make You a Better Person.

There is a conflict between your immediate gut instincts and your more longer-term goals to stay committed to your partner. Why Do People Resist the Temptation to Cheat?

Getting along with co-workers may prolong life, researchers find.

Fifty years of research has confirmed that the emotional quality of our earliest attachment relationships is central to our well-being as adults.

How the brain processes complex beliefs in the domains of morality, religion and politics.

More than 20 percent of atheist scientists are spiritual.

Musical experience offsets some aging effects. Lifelong musical training appears to confer advantages in at least two important functions known to decline with age — memory and the ability to hear speech in noise.

The Science of Starvation: How long can humans survive without food or water?

Cats pass disease to wildlife, even in remote areas.

How synthetic biology will bring us cheaper plastics by ruining the poorest nations on Earth.

A search for signs of alien life on 86 possible Earth-like planets has begun, with the help of a massive radio telescope in rural West Virginia, U.S.

International Journal on Human-Computer Interaction.

A new system in San Francisco learns from the past to predict traffic jams before they happen.

Robert X. Cringely and Jean-Louis Gassée on Why Microsoft bought Skype.

The DOJ’s online-poker shutdown leaves a pro player to wonder how he’ll make a living. For most of the last six years, my daily routine consisted of waking up in the morning and playing online poker tournaments.

Her death is a suspected suicide by jumping from the building site next to her ninth-floor apartment. No signs of a struggle detected. No alcohol or drugs in her blood or urine. She left no note. She was 20. She landed 8.5 meters from the building. Why did a supermodel at the top of her game—hauntingly beautiful and only 20—kill herself in 2008?

Meet Edward Tufte, the graphics guru to the power elite who is revolutionizing how we see data.

Spencer Tweedy — blogger, photographer, musician, and 14-year-old son of Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy.

By far, most of the traffic from links comes from the sprawling hybrid of Google search and news, which provides about 30 percent of the visits to news sites. And the second?

Writing a traditional biography of Shakespeare is impossible, says acclaimed Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro. But here he selects the best five books that tackle the life of the Bard.

Despite their apparent contradictions, however, postmodern histories have been written. This article deals with one such attempt, The Witch in History (1996) by Diane Purkiss. The work is a perfect representative sample of postmodern history because it (a) is not written by a historian, and (b) does not make use of historical evidence to prove its point.

Why is the vampire Edward Cullen from Twilight desirable despite being an extreme psychopath?

I would like to nominate The Lost World: Jurassic Park (hereafter known as JPII) as the worst film of Steven Spielberg’s career.

Think of all the female protagonists in Disney musicals. There are quite a number—Cinderella, Belle, Pocahontas. Now think of female protagonists in Pixar movies. There aren’t any. Not a single one.

Essay on The Faux-Vintage Photo (Instagram, Hipstamatic, etc.)

Visual Language of Manga.

Implied motion in Hokusai manga.

Part 1: Desire and Causality in Road Runner Cartoons. Part 2: Reason Harnesses the Social Mind: Road Runner II.

America’s Top 10 New Sandwiches.