Every day, the same, again
Homeowner sick of cold calls changes name to Tim P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-Price.
Man Divorces Wife After She Refuses To Get Rid of Her 550 Cats.
Saudi ghost-hunters raid “haunted” hospital.
Good News: People Eat Other People on a Pretty Regular Basis. Here is a rundown of what we’ve found from just the past six months.
‘Tarantulas’ invade Indian village, ‘kill’ two.
That Unused Hour on Your Parking Receipt? You Might Think About Selling It. [ NY Times]
More tampons, less tips. Why Ovulating Lap Dancer Get Tipped More.
Human Monogamy Started with Weak Males and Faithful Females, According to Research.
Genius and insanity may actually go together, according to scientists.
Analytical thinking erodes belief in God.
The man who can remember every day of his life in detail.
How close are we to a forgetting pill.
Hiding true self at work can result in less job satisfaction, greater turnover.
How the immune system recognizes danger from non-danger.
Regular Exercise May Be Bad for Some People.
Plant geneticists who sequenced the tomato’s genome in hope of breeding better specimens found that it has 31,760 genes — about 7,000 more than a person. [NY Times]
Men’s Porn Use Linked to Unhappy Relationships.
Should amputation be offered as a treatment to people suffering from Body Integrity Identity Disorder? The science and ethics of voluntary amputation.
Compared to a spindly mosquito, the mass of a raindrop is like a bus bearing down on a human. Yet the delicate insects thrive in wet, rainy climates. To find out how mosquitos live through rain showers, researchers pelted them with water drops while filming them at high speed.
2 New Elements on Periodic Table Get Names: flerovium (Fl) and livermorium (Lv).
Astronomers have completed the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence on nearby exoplanets using very long baseline interferometry. No signs of E.T.
Spike in carbon-14 levels indicates a massive cosmic event between ad 774 and ad 775.
Female Suicide Bombers: Clues from Journalists.
An Hypothesis about Suicide Notes.
Irish Mathematicians Solve The Guinness Sinking Bubble Problem.
How the Surging Popularity of ‘Himalayan Viagra’ Is Causing Murder and Violence in Nepal.
How about those who do not travel? Segmenting the USA non-travel market.
Nintendo’s new Wii U console will embrace social networking. The machine will promote the Miiverse in which users can see what others are playing, share self-created game content and swap gaming tips.
Interview with Apple’s design guru Jonathan Ive.
Google Embraces “Paid Inclusion.” What Is Paid Inclusion?
Google Glasses patent hints at speech-to-text display for deaf users.
Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don’t want the government spying on you.
Michael Geismar’s blackjack run ended just after six o’clock on Friday morning with $410,000 in manila envelopes in cash sitting on a table at Café Bellagio in the namesake Las Vegas luxury hotel, right next to the plates of steak and eggs and glasses of ice water. The co-founder and president of $4.6 billion managed futures firm Quantitative Investment Management couldn’t put the bundled $100 bills in his room upstairs because the safe was already full with about $300,000 in winnings from two nights before.
When Lichtenstein took up the brushstroke motif in 1965.
How to Make Your Vagina Taste Awesome.
The celebrated Terrier dog “Major” killing 100 rats in 8 minutes, 58 seconds.
