Man texts, ‘I need to quit texting,’ before driving into ravine.

Researchers tracked Google keyword searches in the United States for pornography, prostitution and dating sites between January 2006 and March 2011. Porn-related keyword searches peaked during winter and early summer, a trend not seen with neutral search terms. Scientists have also documented increases in condom sales around Christmas week and during the summer months.

Smiles as signals of lower status in football players and fashion models: Evidence that smiles are associated with lower dominance and lower prestige.

A new study shows that in judging a person’s personality from their gait, you and I (and others) are likely to agree with each other. And yet our judgments would be wrong.

Hearing generic language to describe a category of people, such as “boys have short hair,” can lead children to endorse a range of other stereotypes about the category, a study by researchers at New York University and Princeton University has found.

Bilingual children outperform children who only speak one language in problem-solving skills and creative thinking, according to research.

Recent and past musical activity predicts cognitive aging variability.

Fruit flies offer DNA clue to why women live longer.

Cues to personality and health in the facial appearance of chimpanzees.

Are Butterflies Two Different Animals in One? The Death And Resurrection Theory.

Do cats in shelters acclimate faster if given a bunkmate?

The Double Dinosaur Brain Myth. Contrary to a popular myth, dinosaurs didn’t have butt brains.

MIT students reveal PopFab, a 3D printer that fits inside a briefcase.

War? YouTube app disappears from iOS 6 beta 4 as Apple breaks Google ties.

America’s funeral parlors rely on one man to provide the music. Welcome to “semi-spiritual” ambient music.

The Baltimore’s Twelve O’Clock Boyz, a hundred-strong gang who wheely dirt bikes through a city where police are banned from chasing them.

Point Cloud.

Tire trick.

Feeding seagulls laxatives ends exactly as expected.

every day the same again | August 6th, 2012