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Fatter and fewer German nudists as numbers dwindle.

Unhappy that a Lafayette Road car dealer wouldn’t take back the van he bought on Monday, David Cross drove “the lemon” back after closing on Tuesday and crashed it into six cars parked on the lot for sale. “I hit the first $25,000 car I could see,” Cross told the Herald. “I didn’t hit a car under $20,000.”

Motorcyclist lands in car’s rear seat after crash.

Archeologists discovered 700 curious tunnel networks in Germany, and about 500 in Austria. Their purpose remains a mystery.

Why do people eat less when they have big forks?

Marriages are happier when wives are skinnier than husbands.

Why People Avoid the Truth About Themselves.

When humans draw things, most of the time the product is something that wouldn’t easily be confused with a photograph. Why humans can’t draw.

Scientists have found a previously unseen particle.

We are more willing to do bad if we have recently done good. We also think we get more excuses to do bad if our group is good.

Linguistic diversity and traffic accidents.

How do viruses hijack our brains to make us vomit - and can we stop it?

The brain does not just mirror the emotions of others. We share the actions, sensations and emotions of the people around us.

Scientists discover how best to excite brain cells.

Clocks tell time in numbers—and so do our minds, according to a new study. In two experiments, scientists found that people associate small numbers with short time intervals and large numbers with longer intervals—suggesting that these two systems are linked in the brain.

Has the Internet become an external hard drive for the brain?

A new breed: Highly productive chickens help raise Ugandans from poverty.

The full moon indicates impending danger from lion attack, a University of Minnesota study shows.

Subtle word change affects election participation.

A new study by MIT political scientists adds to this body of research by details which types of citizens are most influenced by candidate appearances, and why.

During warfare in the 15th century, soldiers wore steel plate armour, typically weighing 30-50kg. The French may have had a better chance at the Battle of Agincourt had they not been weighed down by heavy body armour, say researchers.

Physicists have created a “hole in time” using the temporal equivalent of an invisibility cloak.

When consumers taste a chocolate bar they think is made in Switzerland, they’ll prefer it over one supposedly made in China, according to new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. But if you tell them where it’s from after they taste the candy, they’ll prefer the Chinese chocolate.

Spotify, the Swedish streaming service, about to make its U.S. debut, may be the industry’s best shot at remaining profitable and relevant.

Personally, I find the term “in the cloud” pretentious and annoying. Don’t they just mean “online?”

The Pentagon, the IMF, Google, and others have been hacked. It’s war out there, and a cyber-weapons industry is exploding to arm the combatants.

How Hackers Stole 24,000 Files From The Pentagon.

Microsoft posts $250K reward for Rustock botnet herders. First bounty since 2009, when Microsoft offered cash for Conficker’s makers.

How to Hide From Annoying People on Google+.

A Conversation with Josh Harris. Internet entrepreneur reveals some details about his latest project.

Why Netflix Raised Its Prices.

How Ray Dalio built the world’s richest and strangest hedge fund.

Professor Eshel Ben-Jacob of Tel Aviv University’s study, based on an examination of 50 years of market volatility in 10 stock markets in seven different countries, demonstrates that a smart stock market portfolio takes into account both negative returns and the dynamics of psychological volatility.

Context Sensitivity with Neural Networks in Financial Decision Processes.

When New York crassly mismanaged its financial affairs, the president’s response was famously paraphrased as “Ford to City: drop dead!” When Greece was guilty of similar mismanagement the reaction of the ECB and the European Commission was “how can we help?”. American lessons in how to run a single currency.

National Debt Ceiling Explained in One Graphic.

In all of 2010 regulators seized 157 banks. There were 140 bank failures in 2009. More: Regulators shut down two small banks in Florida and one in Colorado, bringing to 58 the number of U.S. bank failures this year, well behind last year’s pace.

The pathology of collecting. Is it a noble instinct or a destructive desire?

Charles Saatchi has remade the British art market three times, most famously by championing young British artists such as Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas. But was he lucky or did he have true vision? And more importantly can he do it again?

In 1907, Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient.

The Typo Eradication Advancement League uses Sharpies, dry-erase markers, chalk, paste-on letters, and Wite-Out to correct errors displayed on signage nationwide.

What’s a Metaphor For?

This is series of informal essays about Apocalypse Now that argues that the movie as a whole takes the from of a classic rite of passage as described by Durkheim and van Gennep. Particular attention is given to the opening montage, the trip into the jungle for mangoes, the sampan massacre, the final parallel killings of Kurtz and the caribao, and parallels between characters.

Young media and tech workers flock to neighborhoods such as Williamsburg in Brooklyn and Chelsea, where many of their employers are also moving their offices. These tenants also demand high-tech amenities such as ubiquitous wireless internet access, movie screening rooms and, in one case, a Wii room.

As of 2011, are we, as a nation, using significantly less paper than, say, 20 years ago?

How to make an omelet.

6 Mind-Blowing Discoveries Made Using Google Earth.