How kids are getting tipsy. “What we’re hearing about is teenagers utilizing tampons, soak them in vodka first before using them. It gets absorbed directly into the bloodstream.”

Dog Eats $1000 in Cash, Only Returns $900.

Physicians in India discovered seven-year-old Kura Nitya cries stones from her eyes.

Hu Xiao says his job as one of China’s executioners is usually not very complicated, except for the time when a prisoner he was about to kill stood up and ran toward his loaded rifle.

Painting by fictional artist sells for $11,000. David Bowie was part of the hoax.

Europe Bans Airport X-Ray Body Scanners Amid Cancer Concerns.

European Children More Likely to Outperform Parents Than Americans.

What Iceland Teaches Us: “Let Banks Fail.”

Analysis of phallic decorations in Paleolithic art may also show evidence of the world’s first known surgery performed on a male genital organ.

Live forever? Scientists are now able to reverse old age.

Sounds Like a Winner: Voice Pitch Influences Perception of Leadership Capacity.

Evolution of Narcissism: Why We’re Overconfident, and Why It Works. Overestimating our abilities can be a strategy for success, model shows.

What triggers an Earworm - the song that’s stuck in your head?

Tortoises Don’t Catch Yawns. Sleepiness and boredom aren’t always contagious.

Buy More Experiences and Less Stuff. Experiences improve with time, resist unfavourable comparisons and are often mentally revisited (unlike stuff).

Why is it so difficult to develop drugs for cancer?

How Has Magic Johnson Survived 20 Years with HIV?

In 1960, 68%) of all Americans in their twenties were married. By 2008, just 26% of twenty-somethings were wed. How Marriage Became Optional: Cohabitation, Gender, and the Emerging Functional Norms.

Why do experts seek negative feedback to get motivated?

Did I do that? The psychology of alcohol-induced blackouts.

The strange and curious history of lobotomy.

Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs. One moment, he is remembering the details of his life as an addict; the next, he is reconstructing, based on newer scientific findings, what the drugs were doing to his brain.

From 1997: How the practice of consuming heroin by ‘chasing the dragon‘ – inhaling vapours after heating the drug on tin foil – spread across the world.

The developers of “Project black mirror” claim to have developed a BCI that can control an  iphone using Siri. The developers of “Neurowear” claim to have developed a pair of wearable rabbit ears containing a BCI that moves based on your mood. Can you tell which one is an elaborate hoax?

The Economist says lie-detectors bring “disaster.” I think they exaggerate.

Do ads with facts work better than ads that appeal through emotion and aspiration?

What’s your beef? This is funny. My beef? It’s not funny, the concept sucks, and the retouching work is bad student level.

The Impact of New Media on Customer Relationships.

Demonology is not simply the study of demons, but of noise’s assault on signal.

Her article ‘Psychology Constructs the Female’ was originally published in 1968 and became an instant classic.

Vladimir Nabokov’s understanding of human nature anticipated the advances in psychology since his day.

Correspondence between between T.S. Eliot and Groucho Marx began in 1961.

Germany’s biggest Catholic-owned publishing house has been rocked by disclosures that it has been selling thousands of pornographic novels with titles such as Sluts Boarding School.

Who wrote the Bible?

Great written works from authors such as Shakespeare and Homer that you’ll never have a chance to read. The Top 10 Books Lost to Time.

Amazon Reveals the Most Well-Read Cities in America.

You wouldn’t think it by looking at the long line of Shakespeare biographies on the library shelves, but everything we know for sure about the life of the world’s most revered playwright would fit comfortably on a few pages. William Shakespeare, Gangster.

NFL great saves former L.A. gang member.

If a medical professional prescribes medication to you and that medication is known to have psychiatric side effects, are they responsible when you kill your spouse? The Utah Supreme Court is considering that very question in the case of David Ragsdale, who killed his wife almost three years ago, but says he wouldn’t have done it if not on medications.

In the summer of 1921, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was on top of the world. Paramount Pictures had paid him an unprecedented $3 million over three years to star in 18 silent films, and he’d just signed another million-dollar contract with the studio. By the end of the week, Fatty Arbuckle was sitting in Cell No. 12 on “felony row” at the San Francisco Hall of Justice, held without bail in the slaying of a 25-year-old actress named Virginia Rappe.

Dwolla is an innovative online payment system that sidesteps credit cards completely. Unlike PayPal, it doesn’t take a percentage of the transaction. It only asks for $0.25  whether it’s moving $1 or $1,000. We interviewed Milne about how he is building a credit card killer.

The bookstore chain that did everything wrong. Bought long leases on huge shops in second-rate locations. Bet heavily on CDs just as the music business slumped. Outsourced online sales to Amazon.

A Preliminary Analysis of Privacy On Google+. Computer scientists say there are privacy concerns over some data that Google+ shares.

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs. Topics include Isaacson’s failings as an author and biographer, the technical cluelessness on display in the book, and Steve Jobs, Enemy of Progress. [audio]

A History of the word Oops. [Thanks Tim]

Brian Eno on bizarre instruments.

Hair Metal’s Proto-Punk Roots.

The decline of horse racing.

Why don’t Americans eat horse meat?

Maurizio Cattelan announced that after his Guggenheim retrospective, he will retire.

The Clock is a 24-hour long montage meticulously constructed by Marclay and sound designer Quentin Chiappetta from several thousand film scenes that feature clocks or references to time. It took two years and a team of six researchers to assemble all the footage. A work of art that tells the precise time of day, minute by minute, wherever it is shown, exactly matching the time in the real world.

Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Here’s a map of every McDonald’s in America.

Dolphin laughs.

Mousthair. [via copyranter]

every day the same again | November 17th, 2011