Every day, the same, again
A 23-year-old financier who ran up a bar bill of more than $315,000 has been arrested.
Ice shelf in Antarctica has shrunk by 85% since 1995.
Chinese teenager sold a kidney so he could buy an iPhone and an iPad.
A Colorado man shot a woman in the head after mistaking her red Mohawk hairdo for a bird. [Thanks Seymour]
Wyoming town - population 1 - sells for $900,000 to Vietnamese buyer.
She arrived at the surgery center at 8 a.m., left at 12:30 p.m., and the bill came to $37,000, not counting doctor fees. The bizarre calculus of emergency room charges.
At what age are you happiest? According to a recent survey, the answer is 33.
Why women hate me for being beautiful.
NYC’s Most Insane Real Estate Deal: $55/Month Rent-Controlled Apt In SoHo.
A new study reveals that muscles in the upper face may divulge when people are not telling the truth. Researchers found four different facial muscles that a trained eye can use to separate genuine expressions of emotion from deceptive ones.
In their study, 22 volunteers were faced with the 9 dots problem, a notoriously difficult puzzle. [solution]
Extreme eaters show abnormal brain activity.
New research found a dramatic rise of skin cancer among people under 40, especially women. The researchers speculate that the use of indoor tanning beds is a key culprit.
62 percent of men and 37 percent of women over the age of 65 are sexually active. The main causes of sexual inactivity are physical illness and widowerhood.
A new study shows that women bosses take better care of their employees than men do.
Herpes linked to coral decline.
A study confirms that long commercials evoke stronger emotions.
New index identifies periods when global stock markets might decline.
Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse.
No self-respecting New Yorker would ever request turn-by-turn directions from 23rd and Park to The Strand. Google Glasses. What could go wrong?
Texas researcher adds ‘Enemy’ feature to Facebook.
The Most Expensive Real-Estate in the World.
Life expectancy in China is increasing but the number of young adults is plummeting due to strict birth control policies. China faces ‘timebomb’ of ageing population.
Does the U.S. Really Have More Oil than Saudi Arabia?
So why did Planned Parenthood turn down nearly a half a million dollars they could put to good use?
Why Las Vegas is moving to Macau.
Welcome to the national headquarters of The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [more]
He was about to do what no human had ever done before - free-fall to earth at the speed of sound.
The rise of 3D technology is just getting started.
The Pirate Bay launches crazy Physibles category for printing 3D objects. [previously]
Wiiliam Eggleston reprints sell out. The sale was controversial because it included new, larger-format editions of the famous dye-transfer images that the artist first produced in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Hannibal Lecter’s Guide To The ‘Goldberg Variations’.
The Last Handwritten Newspaper In The World.
“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” There’s just one problem with both these quotations: No one can point to a primary source proving that Keynes ever uttered them.
Newsweek’s “Mad Men” issue. Stories are set in Newsweek’s 1960s fonts. And many of the advertisements are designed to look vintage-1965.
The Crack-Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in Esquire, February 1936.
Can a hard-hit baseball crush your skull?
A Better Strategy for Hangman.
Visual representation of the history of life on Earth as a spiral.
Zombie Ass. [Thanks G]
