Woman’s ‘phantom limb’ never existed in the first place.

Snow Globes Set Fire to a Couch by Magnifying the Sun’s Rays.

Estranged wives are having to adjust their expectations about their divorce settlements as a result of the trend for investment banks to reward their bankers with bonuses in deferred shares, rather than cash.

One out of 10 Wall Street employees is a clinical psychopath, compared with one out of 100 people in the general population.

Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War.

One in Four HIV Patients Sexually Abused in Childhood.

Aspirin seems to be a miracle drug. New research shows that taking a low dose of the painkiller each day can cut the risk of a range of cancers, and could even treat the disease.

Mankind’s ancestors may have started walking on two legs simply because it allowed them to carry more food away in their hands, boosting their chance of survival, scientists believe.

Could rosemary scent boost brain performance?

Faces are considered more attractive when they’re moving.

The discovery of a hormone-like molecule in the scalp may offer new clues for treating male baldness.

Self-Dissolving Tinnitus Treatment Gives New Hope.

Researchers in Florida have found that when they deplete a smoker’s self control, smoking a cigarette may restore self-control.

Wielding a gun increases a person’s bias to see guns in the hands of others, new research shows.

Scientists measure how energy is spent in martial arts.

Sexual sadists show increased peripheral sexual arousal when observing other individuals in pain. The neural mechanisms underlying this unusual response are not well understood.

Why Your 1st Marriage Has a 50% Chance of Lasting.

Will marriage matter? Effects of marriage anticipated by same-sex couples.

Animals and 6-Month-Old Infants Are Getting Fatter…

How Stress Makes Oranges Better for You.

Last year, physicists discovered that red wine can turn certain materials into superconductors. Now they’ve found that Beaujolais works best and think they know why.

Twitter Not So Good At Predicting Box Office Revenues After All.

What Do Fact-Checkers and Anesthesiologists Have in Common? Understanding why some people choose professions where accomplishments go unheralded.

The Paperless Office is Actually Arriving.

Is Magazine Publishing Really Screwed?

he object of fashion: methodological approaches to the history of fashion.

In a 30 year period, around 26,000 freed slaves were brought to the island after being rescued from slave traders.

NYC’s underground LowLine park would pipe in sunlight for trees.

How Christian Marclay created The Clock, his twenty-four-hour video collage.

Damien Hirst and the great art market heist.

A classmate from college set me up at Sotheby’s, a company I knew little about.

Who wrote the Iliad?

Future Shock: “too much change in too short a period of time.”

Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read?

Techniques for Solving Sudoku Puzzles.

The Perfect Martini.

Probably don’t take a picture of your penis.

How to Get Some Guy to Marry You.

The 10 Rules of Great Paper Writing.

Breakdown of a Murakami novel.

Background art from animated cartoons.

Did a German ad agency blatantly steal an idea to make these charming Lego ads? More: Lego = Minimalist Simpsons.

Wildrose is a conservative provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Danielle Smith is their current leader. This is her bus.

Welcome Joe back to the trail.

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every day the same again | March 23rd, 2012