Kids Are Still Getting Drunk By Shoving Vodka-Soaked Tampons Up Their Butts.

Thai teen girls think braces are cute. They’re also deadly. [thanks Tim]

Oklahoma Senator Pickets Personhood Bill With Hilarious, Obscene Sign.

According to a new study, eating cheese can alter your dreams. [thanks Tim]

Billboard promoting literacy night contains spelling mistake.

US Newspaper Ad Revenues Drop To 60Yrs Low.

North Korea Suspends Nuclear Testing. United States offers food aid in exchange for moratorium on uranium enrichment and weapons testing.

Why Russia needs to rebuild its military, by Vladimir Putin.

A mother describes the surprising effect that the pharmaceutical sleeping drug Ambien has had on her brain-damaged son. [NY Times]

Ever wonder how dogs can walk barefoot in the snow? A Japanese scientist may have the answer — an internal central heating system.

The odorous compound responsible for halitosis - otherwise known as bad breath - is ideal for harvesting stem cells taken from human dental pulp, scientists have discovered.

Yes, pheromones send signals about your moods, your sexual orientation and even your genetic makeup.

Brain cells know which way you’ll bet.

Do consumers prefer to pay $29 for 70 items or get 70 items for $29?

Showing off in humans: Male generosity as a mating signal.

Does religious background influence sexual orientation?

What’s the best time to be creative? New research finds circadian rhythms in our creativity.

Advocates for the increased use of neuroscience in law have made bold and provocative claims about the power of neuroscientific discoveries to transform the criminal law in ways large and small.

No cash. Only a few credit card receipts that look like they’ve been signed by Stephen Hawking’s anus.

Healthy people seeking amputations are nowhere near as rare as one might think. In May of 1998 a seventy-nine-year-old man from New York traveled to Mexico and paid $10,000 for a black-market leg amputation; he died of gangrene in a motel.

Dotcom didn’t look like a criminal genius. With his ginger hair, chubby cheeks, and odd fashion sense—he often wore black suits and white-on-black wingtip shoes—he looked like he should be setting up a magic table.

Computer scientists have developed a simple algorithm that accurately guesses your hometown using the location information of photos uploaded to Flickr.

He was fired from the company he helped create, YouSendIt. Then the cyberattacks started. A Silicon Valley Tale of Humiliation and Revenge.

Internet pioneer Larry Smarr’s quest to quantify everything about his health led him to a startling discovery, an unusual partnership with his doctor, and more control over his life.

Research, no motion: How the BlackBerry CEOs lost an empire.

Yahoo has asserted claims on patents that include the technical mechanisms in the Facebook’s ads, privacy controls, news feed and messaging service.

We must all be eunuchs when we play videogames, inhabiting stories where sex is an invisible phenomenon.

For the US, the war confirmed its status as a sovereign state and tested the limits of manifest destiny. On this side of the border, the matter is much simpler: if we hadn’t won the War of 1812, we wouldn’t be Canadian.

Which is the best language to learn? French.

We celebrate Nietzsche for being anti-everything, but why is there no anti-Nietzsche?

When did TED lose its edge? When did TED stop trying to collect smart people and instead collect people trying to be smart? Related: A TEDTalk from the future as envisioned by Prometheus director Ridley Scott.

Life as a Landlord. [NY Times ]

The film is in the public domain because the producers failed to renew the copyright in 1973.

National Cheerleaders Convention, Daytona Beach, Florida , 1998.

Henley Beach, Adelaide, 2012.

Décollage (up above).

Japanese Fart Scrolls Are the Best Scrolls.

Catastrophe.

More and more undeniable sightings of UFOs produced over major cities.

“Carrie vs Amélie” 3 Hooks Set.

Duchamp was here.

every day the same again | February 29th, 2012