In Palm Beach County, Florida alone, Bank of America has sued itself eleven times in foreclosure cases.

15-year-old arrested for hacking 259 companies.

Human-made earthquakes reported in central U.S.

Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely cause. Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists. [thanks GG]

In a study appearing this month in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, MIT researchers report that emissions from cars, trucks, planes and power plants cause 13,000 premature deaths in the United Kingdom each year.

What to do with frozen cows stuck in cabin at 11,200 feet?

Japanese scientists regenerate human hair on bald mouse. The team says it will take about a decade before it can be applied to patients.

“If you want to test a man’s character, give him power,” said Abraham Lincoln. It’s a truism that power magnifies personality — but is it true? A new study says no.

Depressed mothers are more likely to needlessly wake up their infants at night than mothers who are not depressed, according to Penn State researchers.

Evolution has given humans a huge advantage over most other animals: middle age.

Those who used speed (meth/ampthetamine) or ecstasy (MDMA) at fifteen or sixteen years of age were significantly more likely to suffer elevated depressive symptoms the following year.

Many contemporary observers believe that Edvard Munch, the brilliant Norwegian artist best known for The Scream, had bipolar disorder.

Jellyfish are increasing in the majority of the world’s coastal ecosystems, according to the first global study of jellyfish abundance by University of British Columbia researchers.

Scientists Trace Evolutionary History of What Mammals Eat.

50 years of bird poop links DDT with changing bird menus.

A panel of experts in Nebraska has declared human dung more appealing than that of several other species.

Scientists Use Satellites, Poop to Count Emperor Penguins.

When did our ancestors stop sleeping in trees?

Various historians have concluded that Einstein’s first wife Mileva may have secretly contributed to his work. Now a new analysis seeks to settle the matter.

How Drones are Changing Warfare.

Boeing prepares an ultra-secure smartphone.

With rising popularity of Internet-enabled TVs, the usual array of attacks and exploits will soon be coming to a screen near you. Your TV will be hacked.

Amazon’s Cloud Carries 1 Percent of the Internet.

Male editors dramatically outnumber female ones on Wikipedia and that could be dramatically influencing the online encyclopedia’s content, according to a new study.

As recently as 2004, the Cincinnati/North Kentucky Airport (CVG) was a major hub for Delta, and offered nonstop flights to 129 major cities, including Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, and Paris. Today, the number of flights through CVG has fallen by two-thirds, and an entire concourse stands eerily empty. How a thirty-year-old policy of deregulation is slowly killing America’s airline system—and taking down Cincinnati, Memphis, and St. Louis with it.

Five myths about water.

Why Netflix Never Implemented The Algorithm That Won The Netflix $1 Million Challenge.

Publishers who want to stay in business are going to have to start selling books without digital rights management. DRM locks customers into individual ebookstores and devices, which is the primary way that Amazon perpetuates its stranglehold on this market.

What Amazon’s ebook strategy means.

Drug smugglers and human traffickers have seized control of a narrow corridor of untamed Arizona desert along the U.S.–Mexico border, turning ranches — and even backyards — into killing fields. A visit to the most lawless place in America.

Investigating the massive corruption of the Chinese military.

Copenhagen frequently tops rankings of the world’s happiest, most liveable and best-designed cities. What Copenhagen can teach the world.

A magician sued a rival magician for copying one of his most famous illusions. The case promises to test the boundaries of copyright law as it applies to magic tricks.

Aviation experts say Price, 52, is one of only a handful of people in the world who have built their own flight simulator cockpit in an actual jet nose.

What’s the origin of “the opera ain’t over till the fat lady sings?”

#1: You admire a character for trying more than for their successes. #19: Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating. Pixar story rules.

The World’s Rudest Hand Gestures.

Pixel Trash Can.

fuck you (.gif)

Snoopy died in his sleep.

David Salo, Tolkien Language Translator. [Wikipedia]

Dr. Klaus Löhlein and his team.

every day the same again | April 19th, 2012