Swedish man arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen.

California man gets stuck in manhole with legs in the air trying to get lost wallet. [with photo]

Live rat found in loaf of bread was actually a mouse.

Group of Tibetan Buddhists buy 534 live lobsters and free them off a boat in the Atlantic.

Actress Used CGI Nipples to Fake a Nude Scene.

An Indian farmer and father of two had a hysterectomy after doctors discovered a “full female reproductive system” in his lower abdomen.

Kidnappers Introduce Victim’s Girlfriend To Wife.

Cancer-stricken WTC worker gets $0 settlement check.

Minnesota asked MillerCoors brewing company to stop selling its beer in the state because of expired licenses. The Department of Public Safety told the brewer it must stop distribution in Minnesota and devise a plan to pull its product from the shelves, including Coors, Coors Lite, Miller Lite, Miller High Life and 35 other name-brand beers.

Women spend more than $160,000 on make-up during their lifetime, a study claims.

What happens in the brain during addiction? How could it be similar to doing yoga? Or learning? An expert explains.

Since 9/11, researchers have been racing to replace the polygraph. Now they’re getting close — and it’s scary.

Are there more connections in a cubic millimeter of your brain than there are stars in the Milky Way?

Superheroes Who Share a Power with Dolphins.

Science’s theories on the origins of life on Earth. More: The theory that complex life on our planet owes its existence to the Moon.

Europe’s Plan to Move An Asteroid.

A piece of debris from NASA’s space shuttle Columbia has been discovered in Texas, eight years after the 2003 disaster that destroyed the spacecraft.

New hints of saltwater on Mars.

How we think about landscapes.

How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man.

Making Music Proves to be Powerful Antidepressant.

What can urine tell us?

Mindless eating: Losing weight without thinking. Dieters may not need as much willpower as they think, if they make simple changes in their surroundings that can result in eating healthier without a second thought.

A simple tweak in the tense of a verb could make the difference between electoral victory and defeat, according to a study by US researchers.

The mysteries of infinity could lead us to a fantastic structure above and beyond mathematics as we know it.

A new study has found that northern peoples have bigger eyes - and bigger brains.

Creativity dampened by observing anger, but enhanced by sarcasm.

The human impulse to be kind to unknown individuals is not the biological aberration it might seem.

Meanness is often a mask for insecurity. Understanding Mean Girls.

Why we need more mentally ill leaders.

Glow-in-the-dark shark can become invisible.

Harmless snakes avoid danger by mimicking the triangular heads of vipers.

70 percent of 8-month-olds consume too much salt.

Study exposes habit formation in smartphone users.

Millions of US drivers cross faulty or obsolete bridges every day, highway statistics show, but it’s too costly to fix these spans or adequately monitor their safety, says a University of Maryland researcher who’s developed a new, affordable early warning system.

Global population is expected to hit 7 billion in 2011, up from 6 billion in 1999.

We Wanted Flying Cars, Instead We Got 140 Characters. From 1999 through the present, the VC industry has posted negative mean and median returns, with only a handful of funds having done very well. What happened?

What If You Wrote a Book and Only One Person Read It?

Back in September, he sent the following message to her via Twitter: “@SarahPalinUSA kudos to your dirty hole, you fucking jackoff cunt-face jazzy wondergirl.”

This article examines the use of Twitter by famous people to conceptualize celebrity as a practice.

This article looks at how previous practice of portraiture prepared the way for self-presentation on social networking sites. A portrait is not simply an exercise in the skillful or “realistic” depiction of a subject. Rather, it is a rhetorical exercise in visual description and persuasion and a site of intricate communicative processes.

Silicon Valley’s self-styled Thomas Edison has found a way to increase wireless capacity by a factor of 1,000.

When they leave, their start up idea gets VC funded. Ex-Google/Microsoft/Yahoo/Facebook-ers Start Ups.

Type “why am I” into a Google search and autocomplete will suggest “why am I here?”

Space, Cyberspace and Interface: The Trouble with Google Maps.

For at least five years, a high-level hacking campaign—dubbed Operation Shady rat—has infiltrated the computer systems of national governments, global corporations, nonprofits, and other organizations, with more than 70 victims in 14 countries. Lifted from these highly secure servers, among other sensitive property: countless government secrets, e-mail archives, legal contracts, and design schematics.

New types of devices that monitor activity, sleep, diet, and even mood could make us healthier and more productive.

Yes, our children are growing up too soon. But blame capitalism, not sex.

The Online Sex Industry.

How Nixon stopped backing the dollar with gold and changed global finance, a 40-year-old decision.

No American was yet inside the residential part of the compound. The operatives had barely been on target for a minute, and the mission was already veering off course.

Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Clinical Psychology in the United States, 1940–2010.

The World of Blind Mathematicians.

Trees brighten city streets and delight nature-starved urbanites. Now scientists are learning that they also play a crucial role in the green infrastructure of America’s cities.

What Are Speed Shows? A New Media Art Phenomenon Swoops Into New York’s Chinatown.

I’m at the Vent Haven ConVENTion where, each July, hundreds of ventriloquists, or “vents,” as they call themselves, gather from all over the world.

Is your basement the best shelter from a tornado?

How to Build a Stone Wall. [NY Times]

7 Must-Read Books on Maps.

The History and Mystery of the High Five.

How to unlock and start a car - with a text message.

Making of: MTV spot, Balloons. [video]

See if you can figure out how this classic con works.

Where children sleep.

Cyclops skull.

Prices subject to change…

Honor Your Dead Loved Ones by Stuffing Their Ashes in a Bullet and Shooting It.

every day the same again | August 10th, 2011