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Police in Colorado are hunting for a man who hid in the basin of a portable toilet at a weekend yoga festival before being spotted and taking off “covered in feces.”

Police charge man with using pool as commode.

A woman accused of spraying sheriff’s deputies with breast milk is facing charges including disorderly conduct.

A power company lineman uses a pole to remove a young deer carcass that was dropped onto a power line after being snatched by an eagle in Montana. The incident caused a brief power outage.

According to New York state law it is legal to videotape a police officer in public, but Emily Good, 28, was arrested anyway.

An off-duty Chicago police officer dressed up as a clown for a fundraiser shot and killed a teen who held him at gunpoint after the event.

Iran plans to send a live monkey into space.

A home-made heroin substitute is having a horrific effect on thousands of Russia’s drug addicts.

British consumers have a nasty habit of serving their dinner guests food that has been dropped on the floor or past the recommended date for its sale and consumption, a new survey showed.

It is hard to think of a time when both the U.S. and the E.U., the two biggest players in the international economy, were in such miserable shape. We are talking about two giants with a total of 50 percent of global GDP.

Corrupt officials funnelled £76bn out of China.

Five economic lessons from Sweden, the rock star of the recovery.

Deep underground, giant experiments are detecting something very odd. Could this be the first real hint of dark matter?

Earlier this year, molecular biologists announced that 20 per cent of nonhuman genome databases are contaminated with human DNA, probably from the researchers who sequenced the samples.

A prion is a misshapen protein that acts like an infectious agent (hence the name, which comes from the words protein and infection). Prion Disease: Secret of Immunity Revealed.
The United Nations is officially declaring that for only the second time in history, a disease has been wiped off the face of the earth.

A common belief about teenagers is that they implicitly assume that they are invincible or immortal and think little about their own deaths. A study shows this to be a myth, as they vastly over-estimate their chances of dying within the next year.

French psychiatrist diagnosed Anakin Skywalker and his evil alter-ego, Darth Vader, with borderline personality disorder.

The problem with psychopaths lies in their lack of compassion, their willingness to destroy lives out of self-interest, malice or even boredom.

Researchers pinpoint reasons for dramatic rise in cesarean births.

Parent-adolescent cell phone conversations reveal a lot about the relationship.

A brief, voluntary conversation with an adult led to up to a 20 percent decrease in marijuana use for teenagers who frequently used the drug.

More Evidence Vitamin D Boosts Immune Response.

Mood and anxiety disorders are more prevalent in city dwellers and the incidence of schizophrenia is strongly increased in people born and raised in cities.

Shiatsu is Japanese for “finger pressure,” and consists of finger and palm pressure, stretches, and other massage techniques. Shiatsu is traditionally performed on a futon mat, with clients fully clothed. There is no scientific evidence proving that shiatsu can treat any disease.

No scientific evidence supports the alleged benefits of colon cleansing.

Marriage improves odds of surviving colon cancer.

Thanks to decades of research, survival from cancer has doubled in the last 40 years, giving thousands of people more time with their loved ones. But this progress simply wouldn’t have been possible without animal research.

With the introduction of psychoactive drugs in the 1950s, and sharply accelerating in the 1980s, the focus shifted to the brain. Psychiatrists began to refer to themselves as psychopharmacologists, and they had less and less interest in exploring the life stories of their patients.

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical computer designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was recovered in 1900-1901. Its significance and complexity were not understood until decades later. Its time of construction is now estimated between 150 and 100 BC.

Wrangham believes that humanity was launched by an ape learning to cook. In a burst of evolution around two million years ago, our species developed the family relations that make us such a peculiar kind of animal.

Jungle Geometry: Who Needs Euclid?

How stressed-out KPMG employees learned to train their brains for higher levels of happiness at work.

Why Wall Street went for gay marriage.

24/7 Wall St. has created a new list of brands that will disappear in 2012. (Sony Pictures, American Apparel, Nokia…)

How Google Finds New Recruits.

Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy. And: On Facebook I overshare. On Twitter, I undershare. If Google hits that spot in the middle…

Here are six ways Google Ventures is attempting to disrupt the VC industry.

Shazam Raises $32 Million. Music is only the beginning for the company — next, they’re taking on television.

In February 2011, News Corp., which bought Myspace and its parent company, Intermix, in 2005 for $580 million, started officially looking for a potential buyer at an asking price of $100 million. The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace.

Before leaving town I was determined to scope out that $1 billion Apple data center in Maiden, NC. So I drove over, took some pictures, and talked to folks at the convenience store down the road. My conclusions from this unscientific research is that the giant Apple facility is mainly empty.

We thought the idea of electronic mail was a great idea. We said, “Where’s electronic mail? That would be so cool.” And they said, “Oh, there’s no time to write that. It’s not important.” And we said, “Well, can we write it?” And we did. And then it became part of the system.

Reid Hoffman. The venture capitalist on how to hit a fast-moving target in the second-wave Web boom.

Intel: The Museum of Me.

In my philosophy class of 36 students I had six instances of plagiarism. One is a case of self-plagiarism, in which the third paper was turned in a second time for the fourth paper. He changed the introduction and the conclusion, but left the body paragraphs the same.

“No one will ever thank you for saving money at Conde Nast magazines,” Liberman once scolded an editor. “They’ll only thank you for making a great magazine.” Cosmopolitan, the popular Hearst monthly that competes directly with a number of Conde Nast titles, made nearly as much money last year as all of Conde Nast put together.

In 1995, Might Magazine published an essay by Phil Campbell about the first convention of people named Phil Campbell, which took place in Phil Campbell, Alabama.

When The Mob Ruled Hollywood.

X-Ray Specs, Sea-Monkeys… Von Braunhut’s adventures in American kitsch.

He also began to believe that the power of orgasm, called orgone, could be stored in batteries and could be absorbed from the sky by the use of a special machine called a cloudbuster. Related: The current consensus of the scientific community is that orgone theory is pseudoscience. And: Reich with one of his cloudbusters.

10 myths about introverts.

Wood models of human heads. Inscription on bottom of models reads “National Bureau of Standards 6-1-1946. Size 7″. Some heads are also inscribed “Size 7.5″. We have some artifacts in our collection we want to identify, so we thought we could exhibit them online and ask for help.

Humans may be near the top of the food chain now, but who were our ancestors’ biggest predators? The Top Ten Deadliest Animals of Our Evolutionary Past.

Does the Smithsonian consider tattoos works of art?

How the Hippies Saved Physics.

Why Do Tennis Balls Bounce Faster on Wimbledon’s Grass?

Who started photography?

What’s actually cracking when you crack your knuckles?

How to Know if Hackers Have Stolen Your Password.

Why you should eat fruits and vegetables.

Could Shakespeare’s Bones Tell Us if He Smoked Pot?

The brown note is a theoretical infrasonic frequency that would cause humans to lose control of their bowels due to resonance. There is no scientific evidence to support the claim that a “brown note” exists.