Stolen parrot helps to catch thief after recognising owner in pet shop.

Rescuers free drunken moose stuck in tree.

Abandoned for two weeks, starving dogs eat owner.

Woman bit by rat in rare attack while waiting for train at MTA station.

Ben & Jerry’s Introduces ‘Schweddy Balls’ Ice Cream Flavor. [Thanks GG!]

Dogs Can Sniff Out Lung Cancer From Patients’ Breath.

Men and women have different reasons for cheating, study shows.

Our significant others (even our exes) influence our new relationships.

At what age do girls prefer pink?

Are you getting enough sleep?

A part of the human brain that’s involved in emotion gets particularly excited at the sight of animals, a new study has shown.

Sex hormones strongly influence people’s interests, which affect the kinds of occupations they choose, according to psychologists.

Why Some Languages Sound So Fast.

New research from MIT suggests that there are parts of our brain dedicated to language and only language.

Alcohol dulls the brain “signal” that warns people when they are making a mistake, study finds.

Plastering the Head with Crushed Snails to Treat Pediatric Hydrocephalus: An Ancient Therapy with a Pharmacological Basis.

Cars could run on recycled newspaper, Tulane scientists say.

What’s the best way to evacuate a skyscraper?

What is happiness economics? [PDF]

Thinking of past and future brings us to another problem that has foxed scientists and philosophers: why time should have a direction at all.
The Theory of Banking: Why Banks Exist and Why We Fear Them.

$2.2 trillion, the amount of money paid to bankers over the last five years. Extrapolating over the coming decade, the numbers would approach $5 trillion.

Linux, created by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish computer science student, was first announced to the world 20 years ago. At the time, Torvalds described his work as a “hobby” and contended that it would not be “big and professional” like the GNU project. But the Linux kernel turned out to be one of the most significant pieces of open source software ever developed..

In late 1979, a twenty-four-year-old entrepreneur paid a visit to a research center in Silicon Valley called Xerox parc. He was the co-founder of a small computer startup down the road, in Cupertino. His name was Steve Jobs.

How AT&T conquered the 20th century.

Digital subscriptions to nytimes.com went from zero to 224,000 in three months. Add in the 57,000 tablet subscribers on Kindles and iPads and the paper already has 281,000 new paying customers.

Why Grilled Cheese Is The Next Frontier Of Technology. [more]

How a high school jock from Texas rose to the top of one of Mexico’s most powerful and ruthless cartels.

How psychology helped locate the light cruiser HMAS Sydney II, lost for over 60 years.

Inside the mind of a London cabbie.

No! Set a date, son. Barry Duncan, master palindromist.

Is It Possible to Not Judge A Book by Its Cover?

The contorted history of autofellatio.

Amorphophallus is a large genus of some 170 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants. A few species are edible as “famine foods” after careful preparation to remove irritating chemicals.

Did Einstein discover E = mc²? One plausible precursor is Fritz Hasenöhrl, a physics professor at the University of Vienna.

When secretaries switched from manual typewriters to electrics, did they gain 20 pounds?

Standard work hours around the world.

Map of Manhattan, 1865.

The End. [more]

Worn-out frying pans.

Café de l’enfer.

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JP Morgan explains the euro crisis with lego.

Making of relief-maps, London, 1916.

Teeny Quiz.

every day the same again | September 9th, 2011