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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.
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.
Corrupt officials funnelled £76bn out of China.
Five economic lessons from Sweden, the rock star of the recovery.
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.
French psychiatrist diagnosed Anakin Skywalker and his evil alter-ego, Darth Vader, with borderline personality disorder.
Researchers pinpoint reasons for dramatic rise in cesarean births.
Parent-adolescent cell phone conversations reveal a lot about the relationship.
More Evidence Vitamin D Boosts Immune Response.
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.
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.
Jungle Geometry: Who Needs Euclid?
Why Wall Street went for gay marriage.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Grossinger’s was once an upscale retreat for the wealthy. Since closing its doors nearly 35 years ago, the resort has remained abandoned and untouched in the New York countryside.
Chinese Ghost Town That Looks Like It Was Plucked From The British Countryside.
657 new islands have been discovered around the world.
Photos of the world at night. Related videos: Milky Way.
The average color of the New York City sky, updated every 5 minutes. [Thanks Tim]
One Year of the Moon in 2.5 Minutes. [Thanks Chris]
Over or Under: The Great Toilet Paper Debate.
Toyota plant in Valenciennes, France
The making of a Coca-Cola neon sign, 1954.
State of Vermont Pure Maple Syrup.