The Voice Project has filed an urgent appeal with the UN’s Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment to intervene on behalf of imprisoned Pussy Riot member Nadezhda (Nadya) Tolokonnikova - TVP
Study finds that reading Tolstoy & other great novelists can increase your emotional intelligence - Open Culture
Some online journals will publish fake science, for a fee - NPR
Buenos Aires artist Leandro Granato paints by snorting watercolours up his nose, and then squirting it out of his eye - BuzzFeed
New York latest state to take on revenge porn - The Daily Dot
Ministry’s Al Jourgensen creating comic book series - Rolling Stone
Charity makes little girl’s dream come true as she meets a mermaid on the banks of Loch Lomond - Daily Record
‘Like nothing we had seen before’: New species of owl discovered - The Independent
Prince to play gig at his house this weekend: The pop icon will host a party at his Paisley Park Studios complex - NME
David Tennant joins U.S. adaptation of hit British drama Broadchurch - TV Guide
Making the movie trilogy The Hobbit has cost more than half a billion dollars so far, double the amount spent on the three movies in the The Lord of the Rings series - AP
Rob Zombie saves puppies - BlabberMouth
Russia halts adoptions to Sweden over gay nuptials - The Local
A Spanish judge has risked the ire of women everywhere after ruling that a driving school was within its rights to charge female learners more because it was proven that “men were better drivers” - Telegraph
Neil Young will perform at a benefit for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music that Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea and Anthony Kiedis will host - Billboard
The Nebraska Supreme Court rejected a 16-year-old ward of the state’s request to waive parental consent to get an abortion, saying the girl had not shown she is sufficiently mature and well-informed enough to decide on her own whether to have an abortion - Chron
Sifting through the many solo albums (and names) of Frank Black/Black Francis - AV Club
Photos of the original walls from the CBGB music club - Laughing Squid
Below, Psychedelic Furs lip-sync “We Love You,” in front of an audience of American children: