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To find north, humans look to a compass. But birds may just need to open their eyes, a new study says.

Mike Jay pays a visit to a new exhibition at Heidelberg’s Prinzhorn Collection exploring the history of the ‘influencing machine’ and its elaboration in the creations of outsider artists and schizophrenic visionaries.

This is a new translation wiki to get the entire Bible translated into kitty pidgin (the language of lolcats).

Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.

The reason why even professional basketball and soccer players sometimes miss an easy shot may be partly explained by spontaneous fluctuations of electrical activity within the brain, a study suggests.

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IS IT distressing to experience consciousness slipping away or something people can accept with equanimity? Are there any surprises in store as our existence draws to a close? These are questions that have plagued philosophers and scientists for centuries

because if you don’t ask, you’ll never know

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An Internal Medicine physician explores the common health problems seen among a technology-focused population. He believe the “geek lifestyle” is associated with several common medical issues.

a visual search for medical symtpoms, diseases, drugs, or therapies

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Make Your Workstation Fit You. Follow the three steps below when planning your workstation. The values displayed will help you place your equipment for optimum ergonomic comfort.

The national e-books observatory project will examine usage, assess impacts, observe student behaviour and develop new models to stimulate the e-books market.

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The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining data on the persons with whom they travel or plan to stay, the personal items they carry during their journ

The Department of Homeland Security already knows everything about your travel. Now, for the first time, The Identity Project makes it easy for you to request the unclassified parts of the dossier that the DHS has complied on you.

Its strategies shattered, a desperate Washington is reaching out to the late dictator’s henchmen.

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If the social phenomena captured in these photographs seem distinctly linked to Japanese culture, Mr. Yoshiyuki’s images of voyeurs reverberate well beyond it.

A dispute between an atheist group and a creationist group over some postings on YouTube has critics of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act crying foul. They say it’s a new and inappropriate use of DMCA, which is becoming a frequent weapon in nasty polit

What songbirds, dancing, and knot-tying can tell us about why we speak.

We all know what an apology is–an expression of remorse or guilt over having done something that is acknowledged to be wrong, and a request for forgiveness. But we also know it can be really hard to swallow our pride and say “I’m sorry.” If you have a di

Nick Mullins on the Guilford Incident - the controversy of Daniel Clowes’ Eightball.

The five pictures are by Victorian artist Louis Wain who painted cats through the whole of his life and continued through periods of intense psychosis. Almost every article on Wain uses them to demonstrate the progression of schizophrenia but the evidence

Creep everyone out in your guest bathroom. Each soap is shaped like a little hand! The soaps range from 1/2” to 2”. You will get at least 10 hands (at least/about 100 grams of soap). This soap is made from goat’s milk and vegetable glycerin with a l

When it comes to overdue books there are apparently no excuses - not even death - at the Harrison Public Library. That’s the lesson a town woman learned when she was charged a 50-cent late fee while turning in a book that had been checked out by her mothe

Miniature cameras have given scientists a rare glimpse into how New Caledonian crows behave in the wild.

Restaurant-owner and folk artist Martin Sanchez has created an urban oasis, a garden of Eden, hidden behind shrubs, trees and a wrought-iron fence inside Martin’s Tio’s Tacos restaurant on Mission Inn Avenue in Riverside, California.

After decades of notoriety, can anyone be shocked by John Waters anymore? Probably not: This year has been very good to the one-time underground filmmaker who has seen his 1988 movie Hairspray turned into a Broadway smash, and in turn, a hit mainstream Ho

Insulin, it turns out, may be as important for the mind as it is for the body. Research in the last few years has raised the possibility that Alzheimer’s memory loss could be due to a novel third form of diabetes.

Every day, 10 new women and girls who have been raped show up at his hospital. Many have been so sadistically attacked from the inside out, butchered by bayonets and assaulted with chunks of wood, that their reproductive and digestive systems are beyond r

“Insanity is a common theme in my cartoons, as I said in my last post. Here’s a whole lineup dedicated to the insane, with the main feature another Mighty Mouse brought to you by Ralph Bakshi.”

In this multi-layered examination of Argento’s undisputed magnum opus, Linda Schulte-Sasse analyses the use of gothic spaces and sly references to fascism and the film’s eligibility for being “Disney’s hidden reverse.”

Quality not quantity. No matter how much your mother tells you that you need eight hours of sleep, if you’re not tired and you can’t truly relax, your sleep time will be worthless.

“Any idiot can tag, but you want tags that are useful rather than a disorganized mess. This is not an unreasonable desire, and by completing three simple steps before you start tagging, you too can become a tagging kung-fu master. (Or, if you want more in

Scott Adams is, of course, the cartoonist behind Dilbert and the author behind God’s Debris, which was an excellent little headfuck. Here he addresses—briefly and perfectly—all of the controversy behind Ahmadinejad and the fabricated PR campaign to

Workplace profanity is everywhere, starting with our elected leaders, like Eliot (“I’m a fucking steamroller!”) Spitzer and Dick (“Go fuck yourself!”) Cheney, and continuing to our unelected moral arbiters, like Golden Globe–winning Bono (“f

Until Mac OS X Leopard ships, users would have to upgrade to version 1.4 to remain covered under the software license.

The company’s acquisitions and product launches are designed to form the backbone of a free online document collaboration service.

‘Arcana Entomologica; or, Illustrations of Rare, and Interesting Exotic Insects’ (1841-1845) included 96 coloured plates. Westwood was able to obtain specimens from the far flung colonies as well as from Societies and private collections in England. He de

In Yangon the killing goes on. Opponents of the regime and monks are falling victim to the junta’s special forces by night. Diplomats assume that several hundred people have already been killed. Now even China is putting the military under pressure.

“No, this isn’t Chernobyl and there isn’t any dangerous radioactive background or toxic pollution. You can even live in this town… but there is no reason for. This place has become absolutely useless after the collapse of the USSR, like many other S

The dozen images collected here (the top 10 images, plus two Wired News picks) capture facets of living organisms that have a technical meaning to the trained specialist, but appear to be pure art to the layperson.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to take to the streets around the world Saturday in Facebook-fueled marches protesting Myanmar’s recent crackdown on monks’ pro-democracy demonstrations.