Fortune Teller Used Google to Speak to the Dead.

Solution found for dead cows stuck in mountain cabin.

Zoo Keeper Helps Constipated Monkey Pass Peanut By Licking Its Butt For An Hour.

California seller of suicide kits sentenced for tax offense.

Last year, almost 1,800 people followed Superman’s lead, renouncing their U.S. citizenship or handing in their Green Cards. That’s a record number.

Peru coast littered with hundreds of dead birds and dead dolphins.

LAPD plans separate jail for transgender suspects.

Lehman E-Mails Show Wall Street Arrogance Led to the Fall.

Korea plans hashtag-inspired skyscraper.

Happiness model developed by MU researcher could help people go from good to great.

Scientists have long wondered why left-handed people are a rarity. A new study suggests lefties are rare because of the balance between cooperation and competition in human evolution.

Acupuncture and hypnosis have been promoted as drug-free ways to help smokers kick the habit, and there is some evidence that they work.

Study finds emotion reversed in left-handers’ brains.

Jealousy and envy at work are different in men and women.

Research suggests infants begin to learn about race in the first year.

Researchers Aim to Read Your Dog’s Thoughts.

Mobile Spam Texts Hit 4.5 Billion Raising Consumer Ire.

Why Verizon Doesn’t Want You to Buy an iPhone.

An online search portal has been launched that reveals the IP addresses of any Skype user.

The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance.

Electric airplanes are about to take off.

Researchers create life-sized 3D hologram for videoconferencing.

Double Fine raised $3,335,265 in a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign. How long before the Kickstarter bubble bursts?

Over at Forbes, Eric Jackson argues quite convincingly that Google and Facebook – powerful though they are now – probably won’t be top dogs on the web for long. How do we deal with the ‘Facebook apocalypse’?

The Scientific Flaws of Online Dating Sites. What the “matching algorithms” miss.

Take top thinkers from Silicon Valley and science, mix them with scientists, innovators and philanthro-capitalists, and you’ve got the Singularity University.

From the diver who finds the body parts, to the forensic specialist who identifies flecks of paint on the victim and the handwriting expert who examines the killer’s notes. What happens at a crime scene?

Valuing art through its theft.

Leonardo da Vinci: How accurate were his anatomy drawings?

Beyond the sale of Munch’s “The Scream” (1895), which smashed the world record for any work of art at auction, the New York sales of impressionist and modern art revealed a strong if not always exuberant market.

For years, geologists have puzzled over mysterious boulders that litter the desolate coastline of Ireland’s Aran Islands. When nobody is looking, the massive rocks somehow move on their own.

Each had paid American Airlines more than $350,000 for an unlimited AAirpass and a companion ticket that allowed them to take someone along on their adventures. Both agree it was the best purchase they ever made.

It is the only instance in the history of naval warfare where one submarine intentionally sank another while both were submerged.

Many New Yorkers have undoubtedly noticed that the subway map has its geographic faults, from peccadilloes like a wayward street to more obvious inaccuracies like the supersize island of Manhattan.

Antarctic krill form one of the largest biomasses of any individual animal species. The total biomass of bacteria may equal that of plants.

This article examines the expanding global tourist trade for fictional places derived from popular narratives that are recreated for the tourist’s pleasure, through a case study of a Harry Potter tour in the United Kingdom.

Jennifer Hayashi Danns, 28, worked as a lap dancer for two years whilst studying at university. She spoke to Ian Sinclair about the industry and her new book.

Materials scientists are researching the link between metals and taste. How cutlery affects your food.

6 media giants control 90% of what we read, watch, or listen to.

Michel Foucault with hair.

List of silent musical compositions.

World’s Loudest Alarm Clock.

Bee, Join me, Welcome baby.

Before entering the club, everyone had to sign a waiver, acknowledging that they were “at peace” with being fucked to death by Dr. Alexander Criscofist.


‘Unabomber’ Global Warming Billboard.

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every day the same again | May 8th, 2012