The Hoboken Sound: An oral history of Maxwell’s - Vulture

Janis Joplin’s psychedelic porsche - Voices of East Anglia

Climate change is making poison ivy grow bigger and badder - Post-Gazette

Plain packaging on tobacco products is associated with lower smoking appeal, greater support for the policy and a higher urgency to quit among adult smokers, a new study has found - The Conversation

“A walrus asleep on a Russian submarine.” - reddit

Al Qaeda militants flee Iraq jail in violent mass break-out - Reuters

Iconic NYC music venues, then and now - BuzzFeed

Chuck Palahniuk announces a graphic novel sequel to Fight Club - Tumblr

According to a study by scientists at the University of Wisconsin and Yale University, small, herbivorous, dome-headed dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous period known as pachycephalosaurids used domes atop their heads to fight for territory and mates - Sci-News

The sounds heard during a near-death experience - Daily Grail h/t WFMU

10 scientific and tech visionaries who experimented with drugs - io9

In Afghanistan, a quest to save the snow leopard - The Washington Post

Judge rules white girl will be tried as black adult - The Onion

Through photos and memorabilia, Stanford’s Allen Ginsberg collection captures a generation - Stanford.edu

Kick-Ass 2 stuntmen rescue suicidal woman on balcony at Comic-Con - Today

Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, has declared war on homosexuals. So far, the world has mostly been silent - New York Times

America sterilized over 60,000 of its own citizens from 1907-1979—A program so successful that even the Nazis asked for consultation - UltraCulture

Singh street style - Singh Street Style

The future of farming: GM crops on organic farms fertilised by human excrement - University of Sheffield

The feud continues: Noam Chomsky responds to Žižek, describes remarks as ‘sheer fantasy’ - Open Culture

Greening of the Earth pushed way back in time - Phys.org

Why 80 percent of people worldwide will soon stop eating wheat - Raw For Beauty

Below, Girls Against Boys perform “In Like Flynn” live in 1993.