Every day, the same, again
Tokyo Transsexual Cooks and Serves His Own Genitals at Public “Ham Cybele” Banquet.
How 3 simple buttons raised tipping by $144 million in NYC cabs.
Economists list cheapest ways to save world.
Interview with Nick Bostrom: We’re Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction. Previously: The Great Filter.
Perfectionists worry away the benefits of a break from work.
A new study suggests that motivation is not always helpful.
Why Your Best Friend Ditched You For His Girlfriend.
Parents are happier than non-parents, new research suggests.
Looks matter more than reputation when it comes to trusting people with our money.
British researchers have found that gut feeling can override rational thought when people are faced with financial offers that look unfair. Are sweaty brokers more ethical?
Brain circuitry is different for women with anorexia and obesity.
Chimps’ personalities are like people’s, study says.
Your Brain on Facebook. [thanks Mike]
Say goodbye to the individual investor on Wall Street. […] Mobile is going to crush Facebook.
Texting Drivers Take Eyes Off Road 5 Seconds On Average: Study. Even talking proved to be dangerous.
Scientists have found that suspicion resides in two distinct regions of the brain.
Anaya has even coined a term for it—”customer service sabotage”—and discerned seven different categories of rude customers who can be a serious liability for the service industry.
Most CCTV systems are easily accessible to attackers.
UK government staff caught snooping on citizen data.
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet.
The Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over, and We’re Dancing on its Grave.
Historically, women have often been paid less than men for doing the same or equivalent work. A recent report reveals that an average woman working full time from the age of 18 to 59 years is estimated to lose out on £361,000 over the course of her working life compared with an equivalent male. This article considers the implementation in the UK of the Equality Act 2010 and its impact.
Brigitte Harris cut off her father’s penis, accidentally killing him in the process, because, she says, he sexually abused her for years. In 2009, she was convicted of second-degree manslaughter, and sentenced to five to fifteen years.
What are we fighting when we try to push through a challenging workout?
Given its location and climate, Greece should be filled with hominid bones and stone tools. Where Are Greece’s Missing Hominids?
Jeff installed a printing press to close the inventory gap with Amazon. The Espresso Book Machine sits in the middle of Harvard Book Store like a hi-tech visitor to an earlier era. A compact digital press, it can print nearly five million titles including Google Books that are in the public domain, as well as out of print titles. The Man Who Took on Amazon and Saved a Bookstore.
The Phantom Menace is George Lucas’s updated mythos for a cynical consumerist age — magical thinking without magic. Watching The Phantom Menace on acid is a paradoxically sobering experience.
Marc Jacobs vs. The Graffiti Artist, Round 2: When Jacobs Turns Vandalized Store Into $680 Shirt.
A Psycho-Historical Analysis of Adolf Hitler: The Role of Personality, Psychopathology, and Development [PDF]
An Interview with Stanley the Adult Baby. Related: Hello and welcome to Bed Wetting Adult Babies/Diaper Lovers.
A grindhouse is an American term for a theater that mainly shows exploitation films. It is named after the defunct burlesque theaters located on 42nd Street in New York City, where ‘bump n’ grind’ dancing and striptease were featured.
The Heaven and Hell nightclubs of 1890s Paris.
The only known recording of Freud’s voice.
Proper letter spacing for any possible combination of characters.
Every Time Zone, A Visual Time Zone Calculator.
Click on the performers’ names to see a list of movies in which they died, with a brief description of the death scene. Cinemorgue.
This Poor Stock Photo Model Is Stressed Out All Over The Internet.
