Woman caught sneaking into U.S. in suitcase
Man arrested after Google+ sends automated invitation to ex with restraining order.
This study solicited the views of 20 young males who exposed their underwear by wearing saggy pants.
Sometime between 360 and 390 million years ago, a group of fishes made the move to life on land. How Do you move a leg that was once a fin?
What are the most common months for birthdays?
Facial hair trends from 1842 to 1972
Twitter co-creator whose real name is actually Biz Stone has a new project called “Jelly.” No one knows what it is, other than an epicenter of vagaries and tech intrigue. […] In a blog post on its mystery Tumblr, Jelly announced its latest financials backers:
Jack Dorsey, Co-founder and CEO of Square
Bono, Musician and Activist
Al Gore, Politician, Philanthropist, Nobel Laureate
Greg Yaitanes, Emmy Winning Director
Roya Mahboob, Afghan Entrepreneur and Businesswoman[…]
By Jelly’s own admissions, the “product” is still in “early prototyping,” so these celeb investors aren’t even completely sure what they’re investing in. Whatever it is, it will have something to do with “mobile devices [taking] an increasingly central role in our lives,” since “humanity has grown more connected than ever,” and “herein lies massive opportunity.”
{ ValleyVag | Continue reading }
“Jelly” has been a closely guarded secret. […] Now, it has revealed itself. It’s a way to ask your friends questions.
Watch the video and be not amazed. Watch as, for the first time ever, a dude takes a picture of a tree in the woods and sends it to someone else because he doesn’t know what he’s looking at—Yahoo! Answers for the bourgeoisie.
Have you ever posted on Facebook, asking if anyone knows a good barber? Or tweeted to your followers asking if “House of Cards” is any good? That’s Jelly—a search engine that uses your friends—only more convoluted than ever before. […]
Jelly says “it’s not hard to imagine that the true promise of a connected society is people helping each other.” This truly is a revolution in engorged, cloying, dumbstruck rhetoric, a true disruption of horse shit. With Jelly, “you can crop, reframe, zoom, and draw on your images to get more specific”—you can also do that with countless other apps. But that doesn’t matter—this is a vanity project, remember. It’s an opportunity for Biz Stone to Vimeopine on the nature of human knowledge, interconnectedness, and exotic flora. It’s an app for the sake of apps—a software Fabergé egg.
Three computer scientists at Stony Brook University in New York think they found some rules through a computer program that might predict which books will be successful. The algorithm had as much as 84 percent accuracy when applied to already published manuscripts.
If so, it comes much too late for the more than 20 book editors who turned down J.K. Rowling’s first manuscript about a boy wizard named Harry Potter.
They said it is the first study to correlate between a book’s stylistic elements and its popularity and critical acclaim.
At the beginning, Walter pursues synthesis using pseudoephedrine. This is used in the real world, as well as in Breaking Bad by many meth cooks. However, by applying his knowledge of chemistry, his experimental abilities, and a half-way professional lab set-up, Walter is able to achieve much better results.
The base substance, pseudoephedrine is a plant-based phenyl ethylamine alkaloid and is used commercially in treatments for nasal and sinus congestion and can be extracted from these treatments. Due to the restrictions on sale, an extensive procurement network is required, which generally means involving a large number of drug addicts, in order to secure the necessary quantities. As the drug addicts can really only acquire the smallest of quantities each time by this “smurfing”, which involves either getting prescriptions for it or stealing it, the availability of this base substance is always a critical factor.
{ Magyar was immersed in a long-running techno-art project called Stainless, creating high-resolution images of speeding subway trains and their passengers, using sophisticated software he created and hardware that he retrofitted himself. | full story }
Woman pulls gun from genitals during sex act after aliens argument upsets her [more]
University study looks at the impact of doing exercise on women’s breasts
App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane for the Blind
The 14-nanometer silicon chips that are now heading to mobile phones and elsewhere may eventually reach 7nm or even 5nm, but that may be it. Moore’s Law created a stable era for technology, and now that era is nearing its end.
That’s particularly useful in Japan and South Korea where streets are rarely numbered in chronological order but in other ways such as the order in which they were constructed. How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View
How to make your own digital currency
One night in 1971, files were stolen from an F.B.I. office near Philadelphia. They proved that the bureau was spying on thousands of Americans. The case was unsolved, until now. [NY Times]
Media Company Looking For Ways To Get Rid Of Veteran 24-Year-Old Employee
@GSElevator Shopping Book Proposal
Vanished New York from 2001 to 2013
Ballet Dancers doing splits in an MRI scanner [hip study]
It’s so cold
-Polar bear is kept inside at zoo
-Some states colder than AntarcticaA fugitive prisoner turned himself in because it’s too cold outside.
Childhood amnesia kicks in around age 7
You could travel the world with an infant aged under 3 and it’s almost guaranteed that when they get older they won’t remember a single boat trip, plane ride or sunset. This is a phenomenon known as childhood or infantile amnesia, that means most of us lose all our earliest autobiographical memories. It’s a psychological conundrum because when they are 3 or younger, kids are able to discuss autobiographical events from their past. So it’s not that memories from before age 3 never existed, it’s that they are subsequently forgotten. […]
Bauer and Larkina uncovered a paradox - at ages 5 to 7, the children remembered over 60 per cent of the events they’d chatted about at age 3. […] In contrast, children aged 8 and 9 recalled fewer than 40 per cent of the events they’d discussed at age 3, but those memories they did recall were more adult-like in their content.
{ The photo features a real soldier and his girlfriend, according to a San Diego TV station, and the ad is inspired by a real married couple, according to the website of SnoreStop, the company using the ad. […] The ad is selling a throat spray that is supposed to help people stop snoring and thus keep them “together.” | Military Times | Continue reading }
New Hampshire girl gets tongue stuck to a flag pole after licking it during a blizzard.
Tighter Access To U.S. Deaths List Has Researchers Grim.
They approached fellow college students of another gender and asked one of three questions: (a) “Would you go out with me tonight?” (b) “Would you come over to my apartment tonight?” or (c) “Would you go to bed with me tonight?”
Divorced individuals face complex situations when they have children with different ex-partners, or even more, when their new partners have children of their own. The physics of custody.
Facial Recognition for the People in Your Pupils / Zooming in on the subject’s eye reveals hidden bystanders.
A pill that lets adults learn perfect pitch as easily as kids.
This machine is the first step toward a 3-D food printer.
Zynga Helps Build Bitcoin Buzz But Don’t Get Carried Away – Yet. + How to Trade Bitcoin (And If You Should)
Financial Times readers have more psychopathic traits than readers of other newspapers, study finds.
I am confused on how she grew a foot of hair in an hour.
Several companies sell dildos in the shape of animal penises, both realistic and fantastical. This one is based on a wolf’s penis.
There are many philosophical questions surrounding the notion of lying. Is it ever morally acceptable to lie? Can we acquire knowledge from people who might be lying to us? More fundamental, however, is the question of what, exactly, constitutes the concept of lying. According to one traditional definition, lying requires intending to deceive. More recently, Thomas Carson has suggested that lying requires warranting the truth of what you do not believe.
This paper examines these two prominent definitions and some cases that seem to pose problems for them. Importantly, theorists working on this topic fundamentally disagree about whether these problem cases are genuine instances of lying and, thus, serve as counterexamples to the definitions on offer. To settle these disputes, we elicited judgments about the proposed counterexamples from ordinary language users unfettered by theoretical bias. The data suggest that everyday speakers of English count bald-faced lies and proviso lies as lies. Thus, we claim that a new definition is needed to capture common usage.
{ Philosophical Psychology | via Improbable }
Playing Moderately Hard to Get
Undergraduate college student participants imagined a potential romantic partner who reciprocated a low (reciprocating attraction one day a week), moderate (reciprocating attraction three days a week), high (reciprocating attraction five days a week), or unspecified degree of attraction (no mention of reciprocation). Participants then rated their degree of attraction toward the potential partner. […] The results support the notion that playing moderately hard to get elicits more intense feelings of attraction from potential suitors than playing too easy or too hard to get.
photo { Danilo Hess }
Man tries to sell stolen brains on eBay
Increase in the number of books challenged or banned across the U.S. in 2013.
Men are more likely to drop dead during sex if they’re cheating.
Participants had worse memory for objects when they took photos of them.
Fate of bones and wood in the Antarctic sea
A mathematical pattern of movement called a Lévy walk describes the foraging behavior of animals from sharks to honey bees, and now for the first time has been shown to describe human hunter-gatherer movement as well.
This study investigated the relationship between foot size and human balance performance.
Walking through doorways causes forgetting.
When, and How, Should Cognitive Bias Matter to Law?
Research shows eye-reflections in photos could be used to identify criminals.
The most accurate psychopaths in cinema.
Are Germans dour, Brits reserved, and Americans brash? The Inaccuracy of National Character Stereotypes
The Paranoid and Obsessive Life of a Mid-Level Bookie
The community of people who consume their own urine every morning to boost their immunity.
Some users will administer it to their children—they’ll blow it into their mouths if they’re smoking it. I Embedded with a Community of Meth Users.
How to Decode What Your Dog Is Saying to You
Dogs Poop in Alignment with Earth’s Magnetic Field.
10 Animals That Went Extinct in 2013
Scientists create glow-in-the-dark pigs using jellyfish DNA.
This Self-Cleaning Plate May Mean You’ll Never Have To Do The Dishes
Roman Emperors, Up To AD 476 And Not Including Usurpers, In Order Of How Hardcore Their Deaths Were
What is the best position to use a laptop?
One of the most popular puzzles ever created was the Get Off the Earth puzzle, invented by America’s premier puzzlist, Sam Loyd, in 1898.
Marijuana Overdoses Kill 37 in Colorado On First Day of Legalization
“News is what somebody does not want you to print. All the rest is advertising,” […]
In 2014, the fastest-growing form of online “content” is an epidemic of heartwarming videos (“One Mother Did Something Illegal To Help Her Kids, And This Cop Was Totally, Unexpectedly Cool”), funny lists (“33 Reasons Miley Cyrus Was Actually The Best Thing To Happen To 2013”) and click-bait headlines from sites such as BuzzFeed, Upworthy and ViralNova.
Rather than being found on news sites or through search engines, they flourish on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. While reporters pride themselves on digging out bad news and awkward facts, these stories often appeal to positive emotions – affection, admiration and awe. They are packaged to make people share content with friends, and to spread like a virus.
Some of this is advertising – BuzzFeed designs viral campaigns for companies that are difficult to tell apart from its other output. Much of it has an advertising-like aspect. […]
One study of 7,000 New York Times articles by two professors at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School found that sad stories were the least shared because sadness is a low-arousal, negative state.
What does the ‘B’ in Benoit B Mandelbrot stand for? Benoit B Mandelbrot.
Mathematician Mandelbrot coined the word fractal – a form of geometric repetition.
related { ‘Fractal Orgy’ Is the First Ever Raw Fractal To Be Banned }
Why do we have numbers like 12 and 60 in our system of time units?
What are the basics of the art of negotiation?
Why don’t Einstein’s descendants inherit Einstein’s IQ?
Why didn’t the creator of Hashtag patent the concept?
What is the greatest scientific discovery of 2013?
Ethics: If a serial killer hits her head and develops complete amnesia, is she still guilty?
What happens in the brain during and after orgasm?
What are the best ways to think of ideas for a startup?
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