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A Swedish woman who lost her wedding ring 16 years ago was flabbergasted when she found it again, around a carrot growing in her garden.

The number of twins born in the United States has doubled in the last three decades largely as a result of fertility treatments.

Pigeons on par with monkeys in maths ability.

A new report from McKinsey Global Institute attempts to quantify how much the internet is worth.

Worldwide there are approximately 200 million users of (illegal) drugs. That is one in twenty people between 15 and 64, according to a study published in The Lancet.

We provide direct evidence of market manipulation at the beginning of the financial crisis in November 2007.

Should we erase painful memories? “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” could soon become a reality — but the concept raises some thorny questions.

Letting go of memories supports a sound state of mind, a sharp intellect–and superior recall.

This was the first study to put volunteers under anaesthesia solely as part of an experiment. It turns out the conscious mind keeps working way past the point where people are medically defined as unconscious.

Scientists have several explanations for why modern humans are the only hominids that have chins.

How crossword puzzles mess with your mind.

The Earth’s rotation is notoriously unpredictable. So how can a clock keep time for 10,000 years?

Earth Must Have Another Moon, Say Astronomers.

Does The Weather Affect Your Mood? Do grey skies make you blue or is it summer that gets your goat?

Physiognomy “is the assessment of a person’s character or personality from their outer appearance, especially the face.” Although one might think of physiognomy as an outdated pseudoscience, along with its brethren craniometry and phrenology, facial phenotyping has undergone a resurgence of interest.

How to break Murphy’s Law.

It’s never too early to start thinking about dessert.

Atlantic salmon just can’t catch a break. Like their Pacific counterparts, Atlantic salmon are anadromous, meaning they live in the ocean as adults, but swim upriver to spawn. Who’s Eating Atlantic Salmon?

On the second line the words ‘‘DONATING = LOVING’’ (loving condition), ‘‘DONATING = HELPING’’ (helping condition), or no inscription (control) appeared. The second line was changed each day and for each bakery according to a random distribution. Results showed that more donations were made in the loving condition compared to the two others, whereas there was no difference between the helping and the control conditions. [PDF]

Are there differences in mortality among wine consumers and other alcoholic beverages?

Novice wine drinkers are more easily swayed to purchase wine based on its advertising.

As Banks Start Nosing Around Facebook and Twitter, the Wrong Friends Might Just Sink Your Credit.

Effin finally allowed on Facebook.

As Mark Zuckerberg, Apple designer Jony Ive, author Danielle Steel, and other guests mingled, acts including Snoop Dogg, Jane’s Addiction, and the Killers—flown in on private jets—performed for the well-lubricated crowd. It’s always sunny in Silicon Valley.

Apple & Google Bid For UK Football TV Rights?

The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why.

Everything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss.

Why is the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation investing in GM giant Monsanto? [2010]

The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin.

The House bill is called the Stop Online Piracy Act. Hollywood’s pirate cure is worse than the disease.

This article addresses the ongoing, increasing privatization of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems – the emergence of systems that users may only join by personal, friend-to-friend invitation.

It appears that the Internet is soon going to fulfill its potential to become a giant on-demand repository of television shows (and movies) available asynchronously. As companies such as Netflix and Hulu increase their activities in this sphere, there are many unanswered questions about the impacts of this transition. In this paper we attempt to foretell the impact of this shift on one key aspect of television viewing: the amount of time viewers devote to it.

The curious tale of how Cesare Lombroso, the founder of criminology, met War and Peace author Leo Tolstoy to confirm his theory on how genius and madness were linked.

Malcolm Gladwell Has No Idea Why “The Tipping Point” Was A Hit.

I want to tell the story of the rise of the suburban poltergeist in factual TV from the 1970s onwards, how those reports inspired Ghostwatch…

David Hockney criticised Damien Hirst for the “insulting” use of assistants to create his works.

The Cuban Literacy Campaign was a year-long effort to abolish illiteracy in Cuba after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. Before 1959 the official literacy rate for Cuba was between 60-76 %, with educational access in rural areas and a lack of instructors the main determining factor. By the completion of the campaign, 707,212 adults were taught to read and write, raising the national literacy rate to 96 %.

Two years after the Airbus 330 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, Air France 447’s flight-data recorders finally turned up. The revelations from the pilot transcript paint a surprising picture of chaos in the cockpit, and confusion between the pilots that led to the crash.

Double-Blind Violin Test: Can You Pick The Stradivarius?

Bauhaus: How A Movement Failed to Protect Its Name.

Wilhelm Reich , the man who started the sexual revolution.

6 Pop Culture Visionaries Who Get Too Much Credit.

Barry Minkow. His many lives: entrepreneur, fraud fighter, pastor, movie actor - and serial swindler.

After ten years, the pesky 9/11 Truth movement has refined its arguments but still hasn’t proved the attacks were an inside job. Their key claims are refuted on multiple grounds.