Truck driver nearly explodes when air hose lodges in his buttocks during freak accident.

Man admits driving 51 miles with wife on van hood.

A Russian man who buried himself alive in a coffin for a night for ‘good luck’ was found dead the next morning.

Artist says city erased mural it paid him to paint.

Family finds $45,000 in new home, then returns it.

‘Balloon boy’ parents say they’ll sell balloon (to raise money for Japan).

Members of Congress tend to outperform the stock market with their personal investments.

Interview With A Somali Pirate.

The authors of the current study believe that better decisions come with a full bladder.

Study: Teams work best when members are physically close together.

Women have lower career expectations than men, anticipating smaller paycheck and longer waits for promotions, according to a new study.

Exploring asexuality, an under-the-radar but increasingly outspoken sexual orientation.

Polygamy is the key to a long life.

Macho Men Die Early.

Long commutes cause obesity, neck pain, loneliness, divorce, stress, and insomnia.

Age, gender and social advantage affect success in quitting smoking.

Human impacts of rising oceans will extend well beyond coasts.

Carbon-14 is famous because it’s anomalous… it lives too long. And a new paper in Physical Review Letters finally explains why.

The essence of who a person really is has been labeled the “true self,” and an emerging area of research suggests that this self-concept plays an important role in the creation of a fulfilling existence. Three studies investigate the role of the subjective feeling that one possesses knowledge of one’s true self in meaning in life judgments.

Were human ancestors ’stay-at-home dads’?

New research suggests we generate more creative ideas for other people than for ourselves.

A year adds up to big changes in brain. Third grade a turning point in how kids solve math problems.

What Does IQ Really Measure?

The seemingly never-ending quest for the true identity of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” took a notable step forward last week when the Italian media reported that a skeleton found in a former convent in Florence could be the remains of Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo — the 16th century woman who is believed to have been the model for the world’s most famous painting.

The secret to a successful raid lies in the operational cycle.

The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse.

What should Apple buy with its billions? A carrier.

Steve Jobs is trying to take revenge for coming in second place behind PCs in the 80s by creating the “next” big thing in computing.

Apple’s Deals May Transform Digital Music.

Embracing mobile is much more for Microsoft than a strategy for success: it is becoming a strategy for survival.

Why hasn’t the Internet helped the American economy grow as much as economists thought it would?

How do CEOs spend their time?

How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code.

I was a 17-year-old pornographer. I was the art director and co-publisher of an underground paper called the New York Review of Sex (& Politics).

Grindr: Welcome to the World’s Biggest, Scariest Gay Bar.

How Gays Helped Make and Remake America.

How did “gay” come to mean “homosexual”?

Carl Jung, part 1: Taking inner life seriously.

Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Gene Hackman has delivered some of the grittiest and most memorable performances of the past fifty years. In a rare interview, the legend talks about acting, his late-blooming career as an author, and what he despises most in other men.

Sexual repression, dark alleys, great detectives, ornate prose. Why we all love a Victorian murder.

Here’s an often overlooked bit of music history: Gustav Mahler, who died in Vienna a century ago, was a New Yorker for the last three years of his life and, for that brief time, arguably the most famous musician in town.

Mapping 19,993 Trees in Central Park.

The Curious World of Zombie Science.

How can I make my own spaceship?

Be ready to amputate entire chapters. It will be painful. Practical Tips on Writing a Book.

Stories from The Onion as interpreted by Facebook.

Avocados and crab.

A lot of information can be gathered from just observing stools. Color, texture, consistency, and other ‘properties’ can give clues to what is happening in digestion. Related: Untitled, 2010.

Leap into the void. Related: 1960.

Boyfriend scenes. [video]

Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes. [video]

Casualties of war toy soldiers.

1931.

1975.

every day the same again | June 4th, 2011