Every day, the same, again
Exploding toilet injures woman at the General Services Administration building in Washington.
Researchers begin counting grains of sand on Cornish beach.
Woman ‘Punked’ by Stupid Toyota Viral Campaign Sues for $10 Million.
Florida Court Rules Pasting Kids’ Faces on Naked Adult Bodies is Not Child Porn.
Man who drove off cliff ate bugs, leaves for 6 days, doctor says.
Assisted suicide machine for sale in Kevorkian auction.
Japan robot with 24 high-tech fingers washes hair.
About 100 million Americans, nearly half of all adults, are unmarried. [NY Times]
Billions in Unemployment Benefits Paid in Error.
How unrealistic optimism is maintained in the face of reality. More: The authors said optimism did have important health benefits.
When Given More Choices, People Pick Friends Similar to Themselves.
Spies could hide messages in gene-modified microbes. E. coli bacteria genetically modified to glow in different colours can be used to encode messages.
Ever wondered why women have small bumps around their nipples?
Neurotics experience more immersion when watching films.
A new study supposedly says women want sex but men want cuddling. Don’t believe it.
How urination urgency can change the way we think.
Fossil Finds Complicate Search for Human Ancestor. A new analysis of a 2-million-year-old hominid shows that it had an intriguing mix of australopithecine and Homo-like traits.
‘Darker Than Black’ Metamaterial Promises Better Solar Cells. Scientists devise a trick to make a material absorb 99 percent of the light that strikes it.
New treatment for kala azar, the most deadly parasitic disease after malaria.
Recent examination of supernovae velocities suggests the universe may be expanding non-uniformly in its acceleration, which implies the laws of physics may vary throughout the cosmos. Is the universe expanding asymmetrically?
How to use augmented reality to provide value. [full thesis | PDF]
Is there an Ultimate Reality? [Thanks Tim]
A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time.
Does Climate Change Cause War?
CIA Says Global-Warming Intelligence Is ‘Classified.’
Implementing Strategies in Extreme Negotiations.
Role of gender in workplace negotiations. Study finds that women are savvy bargainers who simultaneously negotiate economic outcomes and gender role expectations.
How Alcohol Affects Your Decision-Making Process.
The best way to kill creativity is to encourage it.
Creativity in others makes us uncertain and anxious.
For some time, I have been interested in developing an anthropology of the otherwise.
One striking feature of On the Genealogy of Morals concerns how it is written. Nietzsche utilizes a literary style that provokes his readers’ emotions. Recently, Christopher Janaway has argued that this approach is integral to Nietzsche’s philosophical goals: feeling the emotions Nietzsche’s style arouses is necessary for understanding the views he defends. This paper shows that Janaway’s position is tempting but mistaken.
Consider some uses of the word “confident.”
How a rogue trader crashed UBS.
Share Traders More Reckless Than Psychopaths, Study Shows.
Probing the brain of an investor: How advances in neuroscience are demystifying the markets.
Readers demand an explanation for why markets go up and down. But sometimes, nobody really knows.
Running this story in reverse it’s suddenly clear why Apple didn’t introduce the iPhone 5 this week. It would have been lost in the news of Jobs’s death, killing the marketing value he would have loved. More: Unanswered Steve Jobs questions.
Scott Forstall, the Sorcerer’s Apprentice at Apple.
The bogus message that had just gone out to me and everyone else in her Gmail contact list was this:
How Two Scammers Built an Empire Hawking Sketchy Software.
Newburgh, Murder Capital of New York.
A few weeks ago I took a break from reading Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities to visit the block of Hudson Street in Manhattan’s West Village where Jacobs lived when she wrote her classic book on urban planning. Jane Jacobs and the Rebirth of New York.
10 Things You Probably Don’t Need to Know About Black Porn (…but I’m going to tell you anyway).
What was behind Colonel Thomas Blood’s failed attempt to steal the Crown Jewels during the cash-strapped reign of Charles II and how did he survive such a treasonable act? Nigel Jones questions the motives of a notorious 17th-century schemer.
During the previous generation or so, elites across Europe had moved their clocks forward by several hours. No longer a time reserved for sleep, the night time was now the right time for all manner of recreational and representational purposes. A history of the night in early modern Europe.
What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space.
6 Famous People Whose Identities We Still Don’t Know.
when I was 19 (I’m 26-27 now) I went into long-term therapy - for psychopathy.
Why do they put a worm in bottles of tequila?
Photo Gallery: Crime Lords of Tokyo.
Cornelia Hediger and her Doppelganger self portraits.
The deepest fruedian penetration the screen will ever show.
