Florida pizza workers burned down rival store.

Artificial stupidity: Siri suffers a 5-hour outage.

N.Y. Woman ‘Performs’ Live Birth for Gallery Patrons.

Couple jailed, lose custody of daughter, over stolen sandwiches at a supermarket in Honolulu.

PETA sues SeaWorld for enslaving killer whales.

Colorado Springs police say a man’s girlfriend unexpectedly came home just before another woman was due to visit, so he called police to report his new acquaintance as a burglar.

Thousands of people in Florida convicted of DUI may not have been drunk at all according to reports discrediting the Intoxilyzer 8000.

A raid on Gibson Guitar Corp. by U.S. agents seeking illegally imported wood has given anti- regulation activists from the Tea Party to fiddler Charlie Daniels one more reason to dislike the Obama administration.

92% of Top Ten Billboard Songs Are About Sex.

Your brain knows a lot more than you realize.

New research suggests that eating sweets can actually make you not only seem more sweet, but also lead you to behave in more caring ways.

Depression could be staved off before it even appears using a computer game so simplistic that even the psychologist testing it once bet it wouldn’t work.

Exposure to television coverage of terrorism causes women to lose psychological resources much more than men, which leads to negative feelings and moodiness, a new study shows.

The Big List of Behavioral Biases.

Eye movements confirm hypnosis. A true trance can’t be faked, research suggests.

Scientists revisit ‘faster-than-light’ experiment.

Socially-minded dolphins help each other find girlfriends.

Inspired by the gecko, scientists have developed a tank-like robot that can scale vertical walls and crawl over ledges without using suction cups, glue or other liquid bonds to adhere to the surface.

The mechanisms behind the incredible infectiousness of measles are poorly understood - that is, until now.

Using Experiments and Forensics to Understand Cremated Remains.

The Best Places to See Hominid Bones Online.

Google Has Made More Than 50 Acquisitions This Year — Here Are The Ones We Know About

The latest invention from Second Life founder Philip Rosedale launches today, and it’s no virtual world. Coffee & Power is an online marketplace that lets people buy and sell small jobs from each other.

New software can spot cheating at the roulette table and alert the croupier.

Get Some Therapy From An App That Reads Your Feelings Through Your Voice.

Financial-risk models got us in trouble before the 2008 crash, and they’re almost sure to get us in trouble again. Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong.

Governments consistently overestimate their future budgets.

In Oakland, California, protesters - including workers - have blocked the operation of a major US port; in New York, one of the world’s top stockbrokers is bust; in Europe the Greek government is on the brink of collapse, the Italian government in disarray and speculators are short-selling French sovereign debt in the expectation of a domino effect.

Sex Advice From Occupy Wall Street Protesters.

This article explores how anarchic/anarchist spaces/places are denied/rejected. This rejection is due to, first, an ideological rejection of anarchism and, second, a metageographical impossibility.

A charismatic entrepreneur, an ex-con turned devout Christian, and the politicians who championed them. Related: Intellectual history of British anarchism between 1886 and 1968 and Too often associated with mayhem on the streets, for centuries anarchists have actually sought a more ordered society.

How Starbucks Transformed Coffee From A Commodity Into A $4 Splurge.

Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation.

On the misuse of apostrophe’s.

The first time “awesome” appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary, in 1598, it was a description for someone feeling awe, rather than someone inspiring it.

Journalists all use Wikipedia.

All was dark and quiet on Black Tom Island in New York Harbor, not far from the Statue of Liberty, when small fires began to burn on the night of July 30, 1916.

The neuroses of New York.

The 20 Cheapest Zip Codes In America.

The Zapruder film is a silent, color motion picture sequence shot by private citizen Abraham Zapruder with a home-movie camera, as U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, thereby unexpectedly capturing the President’s assassination. Though not the only film of the shooting, it has been called the most complete. [video]

History’s greatest conspiracy theories.

Vizify + Twitter = Tweetsheet.

How music travels. [animated chart]

Chihuahua Rescue.

My gay male readers say I don’t post enough beefcake. This should shut you up.

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.

Sticky thing.

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Tired of being fat & ugly?

Janet Mogwai Jackson.

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