Listen to Bedroom Cassette Masters 1980-89: “Sounds like vintage electronica, looks like vintage electronica…” - Nerdcore

The rock ’n’ roll casualty who became a war hero - New York Times

Your testicles have taste receptors - Business Insider

Lou Reed defends Kanye West’s Yeezus - The Talkhouse

German government refuses asylum for Snowden - Spiegel.de

Michael Jordan tried to take my virginity ... Says former MTV VJ Kennedy - TMZ

A police officer suspected in the brutal gang-rape of a young woman in Ukraine was detained Tuesday after protesters stormed and burned a police station in southern Ukraine in anger over the authorities’ reluctance to place him in custody - ABC News

The Proof of Heaven author has now been thoroughly debunked by science - The Atlantic Wire

Paralyzed rats relearn to pee: Bladder control restored for the first time in animals with stark spinal cord damage - Science News

Festival girl falls into porta potty trying to throw up - Be The Rave

Huge document dump shows how Church protected abusers - Salon

Amputee duck walks for the first time with a new 3D-printed foot - Laughing Squid

Southern states are pushing themselves deeper into poverty by voting Republican - Politicus USA

Based on the classic movie poster of Logan’s Run, here’s Snowden’s Run - Boing Boing

As elephant poaching reaches an all-time high, researchers have discovered a way to single out black-market ivory by using Cold War-era radiation - Popular Mechanics

Vincent Price, on wine - Audio link

The guitar Bob Dylan played when he “went electric” at Newport Folk Festival in 1965 is to be sold at auction - NME

Ponce De Leon Never Searched for the Fountain of Youth: How did this myth about the Spanish explorer even get its start? - Smithsonian

Below, foam on a street in Japan after 40 litres of liquid soap was poured down sink: