Every day, the same, again
Man arrested for driving more than 3 miles in reverse.
Bank robber sues police after being arrested with his underpants on show.
Toddler spends 4 hours locked in bank vault.
Porn Machet Murder. Charley Chase recalls, “I only worked with him once. It was a boy-girl scene and it was terrible.”
Every year forensic scientist Brendan Nytes sees a few cases where a dead rat or mouse is found in box of cereal, a jug of vinegar or a loaf of marble rye. His job is to distinguish genuine contamination from the surprising number of cases involving the intentional introduction of a dead rodent to a perfectly wholesome food product.
The world’s biggest family: Ziona Chan has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren.
Caravaggio’s crimes exposed in Rome’s police files.
Jurors Less Likely to Convict Defendants Wearing Glasses, Say Lawyers and 2008 Study.
Here’s Why France Isn’t An Economic Backwater.
The Myth of Japan’s “Lost Decades.”
Japan’s status as our (i.e. the West’s) economic and cultural horizon peaked in the 1980s. So much has changed. Whatever happened to Japan?
A new study explores how your last name influences how fast you buy stuff.
State by State Housing Market Infographic (US).
The study tested the difference between moral forecasting and moral action—and the reasons behind any mismatch. The findings look encouraging: People act more morally than they would have predicted.
Clinicians have often referred to ultrasound technology as the “stethoscope of the future,” predicting that as the equipment shrinks in size, it will one day be as common at the bedside as that trusty tool around every physician’s neck. According to a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine, that day has arrived.
A new medical device controlled via smartphone could help doctors detect cancer more quickly.
Researchers recently unveiled the first complete millimeter-scale computing system that is about the size of the letter “N” on the back of a penny. The computing system – the tiniest fabricated to date – is a prototype of an implantable eye pressure monitor for glaucoma patients.
Genetic evidence now spotlights the United States as the source of recent fire ant invasions in the rest of the world. Red fire ants cause at least $6 billion a year in damage and control requirements in the United States alone.
Why does polygamy continue at all, if it’s so bad for a woman’s reproductive success?
Publishers Weekly doesn’t like my work very much. Before you roll your eyes and/or get all excited at the prospect of a classic “I can’t believe I got a bad review!” hypersensitive-author meltdown, let me hasten to add that I have absolutely no interest in refuting anything they’ve ever written about my books.
Charlie Sheen: Coke, Hookers, Hospital, Repeat.
The Tippling Club, Singapore, where molecular mixology is married with chic design and cutting-edge gastronomy. More: tipplingclub.com And: Molecular mixology.
Do all cities have neighborhoods?
Designing a city for safe protests.
Why Backroom Deals Aren’t So Bad.
Representative Men, by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The Perplexing Choice in Existence Predicament: An Existential Interpretation of Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange. [PDF]
How to Make Oyakodon (Japanese Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl) and Okonomiyaki (Japanese Assorted Pancake).
6 Subtle Ways You’re Getting Screwed at the Grocery Store.
The methods for treating jellyfish stings vary, and many remedies can do more harm than good. One exception is the application of vinegar, which according to several studies can deactivate the venomous nematocysts that jellyfish release.
13 Ways of Looking at Pac-Man.
10 Realistically Awkward Movie Sex Scenes.
5 Amazing Things Invented by Donald Duck. (Scrooge McDuck Did Inception First)
Thoughts on design. A collection of articles written by Paul Rand.
“Smack My Bitch Up” performed by The Beatles. [Thanks Glenn]
Dead Island, Video game trailer. [Thanks James]
