23 signs you’re secretly a narcissist masquerading as a sensitive introvert - Scientific American

Let me explain why Miley Cyrus’ VMA performance was our top story this morning - The Onion

Women’s Equality Day: Historic moments in the fight for equal rights - SFGate

This 96-year-old man wrote the most heartbreaking song of the year - The Daily Dot

Hemiscyllium halmahera: New species of ‘walking’ shark from Indonesia - Sci-News

Bitches Got Booed: The One Direction Edition - Dlisted

The Simpsons / Basquiat t-shirt - The World’s Best Ever

India bans shark ‘finning’: Hunting solely for sharks fins grown due to demand from China for shark fin soup - CBC

Cocaine can speedily rewire high-level brain circuits that support learning, memory and decision-making, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley, and UCSF - University Herald

Stream Chelsea Wolfe’s new album Pain Is Beauty - Pitchfork Advance

A Blow-By-Blow of last night’s secret Prince concert - The Vulture

Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston will play Lex Luthor - io9

War on leaks is pitting journalist vs. journalist - New York Times

Yellow Submarine-themed Infiniti SUV - 9GAG

Designer’s ‘boxer shorts’ protest against Putin’s homophobia - Digital Journal

More dolphins found dead along Jersey Shore - NBC News

Texas megachurch changes vaccination stance after outbreak - HealthLine

Ohio couple married 65 years die 11 hours apart - AJC

Manning’s gender hell: Shades of gray in a black-and-white world - Boing Boing

Most published West Coast punk photographer (1976-1980) - Jenny Lens

50 things you didn’t know about The Wizard of Oz - FlavorWire

Babies learn to recognize words in the womb - ScienceMag

Below, I’d totally hire this mechanic in a heartbeat!

Iggy Pop and Bon Scott chatting backstage Whiskey in LA. 1977 Photo by Jenny Lens.
 
Fukushima leak is ‘much worse than we were led to believe’ - BBC News

Huffington Post ends commenter anonymity because ‘trolls are getting more aggressive’ - Raw Story

Quitting Facebook? New device will electrocute you if you log on - The Daily Dot

The confidential memo at the heart of the global financial crisis - VICE United Kingdom

Christian Swingers: A new dating site for ‘devout Christian couples who still want to have an active love life and share it with another, in good faith!’ - Christian Nightmares

Researchers find mother beetles eat young that beg too much - Phys.org

In case you were wondering, this is what it looks like when you make a cat statue out of butter - BuzzFeed

Oh, it’s just Peter Dinklage hula-hooping in a gay bar in Canada - Dlisted

France calls for ‘force’ over Syria chemical arms - TheLocal.fr

Piloting a drone with Google glass - ANIMAL

Now you can get cosmetic fat injected into your old-lady hands - Jezebel

Climate change deniers live in ignorant bliss as seas keep rising - LA Times

“We all know that rabies causes hydrophobia—but it is interesting to see what a physical aversion to water actually looks like.” - YouTube via reddit

1912 Eighth Grade Examination for Bullitt County Schools - Bullitt County History

The Justice Department will sue Texas over the state’s voter ID law and will seek to intervene in a lawsuit over the state’s redistricting laws - AP

A team of archaeologists from UK, Denmark, Germany and Spain have found evidence of the use of spices in European cuisine around 5,000 BC. - SCI-News

N.J. attorney general agrees to pay $425K to mentally disabled man beaten by N.J. State Police troopers - NJ.com

Children who display hyperactivity, inattention and conduct problems at the age of three are at risk of worse academic outcomes when they are 16 - Bristol

DOJ wants Bush, senior cabinet members exempt from Iraq War trial - RT

Wood frogs can survive winter temperatures that freeze up to two-thirds of the water in their bodies - Science Mag

Below, Brazilian robbery attempt goes hilariously wrong:

Stevie Nicks, circa 1965 via Pinterest
 
Dragon corpse washes ashore in Spain - Boing Boing

Meet the woman who prevented a mass school shooting yesterday - PolicyMic

Turkish bodybuilder dressed in his underpants and clutching bag of marijuana and ecstasy held party-for-one onboard Merkel’s private jet - Daily Mail

Canada’s police chiefs suggest tickets, not charges, for pot possession - CTV News

Neurologists report unique form of musical hallucinations - Science Daily

Nicolas Cage has a pyramid-shaped tomb for himself in a New Orleans cemetery - Laughing Squid

Anthony Nield looks back over Zappa’s contributions to the world of film and uncovers the curious work of animator Bruce Bickford - The Quietus

Brain circuit can tune anxiety: New findings may help neuroscientists pinpoint better targets for anti-anxiety treatments - MIT News

Prison Break star Wentworth Miller comes out as gay - E!

The most graceful and classiest wedding march you’ve ever seen - Dlisted

José Julio Sarria, gay political pioneer, dies - SFGate

Teleportation just got easier—but not for you, unfortunately - Phys.org

How North Korea got itself hooked on meth - Washington Post

Store clerk attacked, hospitalized over David Hasselhoff cardboard cut-out - Death and Taxes

Quebec’s Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and other religious minorities are on alert after reports that the Parti Québécois government intends to introduce legislation that would ban veils, kippas, turbans and other symbols from government offices, hospitals, schools and any other place that receives public funding - The Star

Ron Paul to be keynote speaker at anti-Semitic conference - Salon

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak slams Ashton Kutcher’s Jobs - ABC News

A Sketch a Day: Kim Deal…ish - Scheme 9

Reporter taken off air after slamming anti-gay law on Russia Today network (VIDEO) - TPM

Bootleg cronuts are poisoning people in Canada - Gawker

35 popular bands that started out with painfully awkward names - BuzzFeed

Below, “I put a bunch of tape on the ceiling fan”:

 
Will Self: “I was reported as ‘suspected paedophile’ when out with my son” - The Guardian

At 82, Sonny Rollins is one of the last jazz originals. He still tours, records, and practices three hours a day, convinced he’s still got something to learn – and something to prove - Mens Journal

Bradley Manning sentence to be delivered Aug. 21, 10am US Eastern - Boing Boing

“Mike” from Breaking Bad has joined the cast of Community - UpRoxx

Horror of North Korean prison camps exposed at U.N. panel hearing - Reuters

3D print of Internet memes into IRL - ANIMAL

Al Jourgensen chronicles Caddyshack-like campaign against ‘thug gang’ of raccoons - Slicing Up Eyeballs

California prisons can force-feed inmates on hunger strike, rules federal judge - Huffington Post

Paris suburb to use CCTV to fight dog poo ‘plague’ - TheLocal.fr

College students and some of their professors are pushing back against ever-escalating textbook prices that have jumped 82% in the past decade - USA Today

Nirvana’s ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ video director’s cut finally surfaces online - Entertainment Weekly

Gov. Paul LePage tells fellow Republicans: Obama ‘hates white people’ - Daily Kos

Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the cleanup of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl - Reuters

Anti-superstition activist Dabholkar shot dead in Pune, India - Times of India

Terry Staunton spins the wheel with Elvis Costello and takes him back through the years, and discusses Thatcher’s death, Britain today, and protest songs - The Quietus

Breaking Bad viewers in Connecticut call 911 during cable outage - Fox40

Florida man attacks mom’s boyfriend with Samurai sword over missing can of shrimp - Death and Taxes

Type Hunting: Nicely curated snippets of lettering and typography on packages from decades ago - Type Hunting

When the world first met the LP, cassettes, CD and other physical formats - Billboard

Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner may get married, have been together for 42 years - E-Online

Below, how to stop on a longboard:

Video via KMFW

 
Pennsylvania’s right-wing governor drains public schools of basic funds—and the sickening details will shock you - Salon

Man ends up with fork stuck in penis after ‘unusual’ autoerotic act - Gawker

Dismemberment Plan’s Travis Morrison makes Gothamist a ‘90s playlist - Gothamist

US researchers say they have developed a more efficient way to produce a kind of ball lightning in the lab - BBC News

Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill Monday barring licensed therapists from trying to turn gay teenagers straight, making New Jersey the second state to ban so-called conversion therapy - AP

Goats lose their minds over a yoga ball - The Daily Dot

New electrolyte beer could prevent hangovers - psfk

Glenn Greenwald vows to release UK secrets after they detained his partner for 9 hours - Raw Story

Atheist home invaders haven’t got a clue: Supreme’s new ‘Stash Book’ - The World’s Best Ever

Bullshit jobs: why we’re not all working 4h days - Boing Boing

Listen: Kim Gordon’s new band Body/Head: “Actress” - Pitchfork

Humpbacks sing in unison to draw females - Science Mag

How shale fracking led to an Ohio town’s first 100 earthquakes - Phys.org

Georgia Institute of Technology plans to offer a master’s degree in computer science through massive open online courses for a fraction of the on-campus cost - New York Times

In an attempt to better engage the youngest visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Torafu Architects created a special art gallery just for kids called Haunted House - This Is Colossal

Quadcopter Piloted by a Smartphone - Science Daily

This latest effort to close abortion clinics is the strangest one yet - Mother Jones

Revisit Futuria Fantasia: The science fiction fanzine Ray Bradbury published as a teenager - Open Culture

Amazing photo technique reveals water like you’ve never seen it before - Wired

Stroll through a huge walk-in vagina thanks to an art installation erected at the old Women’s Jail in Hillbrow, Johannesburg - Jacaranda FM

A four-year-old boy from California returned home from a family beach holiday with a rather unusual souvenir - a sea snail which hatched and grew inside his knee - Arbroath

Alex Band—lead singer of the band The Calling—was abducted this weekend while taking a stroll down a street in Michigan - TMZ

Where the hell are my goddamned adult Underoos? - io9

An Ohio man expected the gun safe he ordered online to be empty; but instead, he found $425,000-worth of tightly wrapped marijuana bricks inside - ABC News

The incredibly offensive letter sent to a mother with an autistic son - BuzzFeed
 

Below, Surrey Police provide an escort for more than 50 ducks during rush hour traffic:

 
How did people call their penises and vaginas eight centuries ago? - io9

Female frogs prefer males who can multitask - EurekAlert

Capital University in Bexley runs out of dorms; houses students at an indoor waterpark - Dispatch

Florida Keys considering drones to fight mosquitoes - Reuters

Macaque monkeys that have developed the ability to use stone tools to open shellfish are in danger of losing the skill because of human development - BBC News

Soda linked to behavioral problems in young children, study says - LA Times

Fox paid $70M for 5% stake in Vice Media - Deadline

Forever 21 Employees wake up to bad news UPDATE: Company Confirms - Daily Kos

This Brooklyn apartment has bed bugs, not that the landlord will tell you that - Gothamist

Dinosaur Jr. coffee table book on its way, aging hipsters relieved living room finally coming together… - Daily Swarm

UC San Francisco scientists working in the lab used a chemical found in an anti-wrinkle cream to prevent the death of nerve cells damaged by mutations that cause an inherited form of Parkinson’s disease - University Herald

27 breathtaking record stores you have to shop at before you die - BuzzFeed

Drugs in the movies - YouTube h/t WFMU

Wonderful pic of songwriter Leonard Cohen on Zen retreat in Mt. Baldy, NM. - Steve Silberman

Coffee and tea may contribute to a healthy liver - Science Daily

Ever wanted to know what’s really in hotdogs? - Discover Magazine

Thai university students forced to wear anti-cheating paper blinker hats during exams - Arbroath

Below, Dolly Parton’s original recording of “Jolene” slowed down by 25%:

Nick Cave on a m*therf@ckin’ plane - via CB
 
Watch/Listen: Kim Deal: “Are You Mine?” - Pitchfork

Jasper Johns’ assistant charged with stealing the artist’s work - ArtBeat

Lisa Robin Kelly from That ‘70s Show has died - Dlisted

Marianne Faithfull breaks back, cancels shows - SPIN

Paul Krassner’s brother was an an unsung pioneer in two top secret space communication projects - AlterNet

5 classic pop culture moments (actors made up on the fly) - Cracked

Evangelical pastor to stand trial in Massachusetts for alleged crimes against humanity: Lively is accused of violating international law by inciting the persecution of LGBT individuals in Uganda - RawStory

It’s not your imagination: BMW drivers are the biggest jerks - The Week

Shirts offered for sale by Litographs contains the entire text of your favorite public domain book - Kottke

Marketing company launches Carlos Danger hot dog stand because marketing - Death and Taxes

Extremely rare bi-colored lobster caught in Newfoundland - Laughing Squid

Warming climate pushes plants up the mountain - Science Daily

The Getty puts 4600 art images into the public domain (and there’s more to come) - Open Culture

Beautifully sad photos of a dying airline - Wired

Mister Softee Truck, Yogo Truck battle violently deep in the heart of Midtown, NYC - Gothamist 

Flashback 1974: William S Burroughs endorses Mr Peanut for Mayor - World of Wonder

Swedish athletes’ “rainbow nail” protest draws outrage and support - Radio Sweden

Egypt death toll rises to 525 - NZ Herald

The most metal hands in the world! Finger tattoos of Dio, Kurt Cobain, Hendrix and more - Cherrybombed

Police raid farm after mistaking tomatoes for marijuana - NBC 5

Nearly 1,500 South African police exposed as convicted criminals - The Guardian

John Cleese brands British press ‘depraved’ and ‘amoral’ during film interview - The Independent

The Poorest Rich Kids in the World: Why did the heirs to one of the largest fortunes in America grow up horribly neglected and abused? - Rolling Stone

How a Tumblr post kept a family from losing their home - The Daily Dot

Crucial Google servers cripple web connections; here’s how to fix it - Gawker

Below, “What’s Up Matador” which was “A Matador Records Instructional Film & Music Video Compilation” made in 1997 featuring Spoon, Railroad Jerk, Yo La Tengo, Guided By Voices, Pizzicato Five, Silkworm, Bettie Serveert, Pavement, Helium, Run On, Liz Phair, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Chavez, Chain Gang:

 
1991: “Crack and divide” - The A.V. Club

Watch: 14-year-old activist destroys TV host on Monsanto, GMO labeling - AlterNet

Google Maps easter egg lets you explore the TARDIS - TechCrunch

French teen attacked for wearing Muslim veil - TheLocal.fr

Cabaret Voltaire: 83-85 boxset announced - The Quietus

The Eagles’ Greatest Hit: Alison Ellwood’s epic documentary perfectly captures the rise and fall of a famous band - Grantland

‘Safe’ levels of sugar harmful to mice: Diet comparable to that of many Americans left animals struggling to reproduce and to compete for territory - Nature

Police seize nearly 60 pounds of ecstasy in Mission St. apartment - Mission Local

Photographing the retina may help detect which high blood pressure patients are more likely to have a stroke - Newsroom.heart.org

Michelle Obama puts out Hip-hop album - The Daily Swarm

The most brutal domestic violence awareness ads - Copyranter

Q. & A.: Edward Snowden speaks to Peter Maass - New York Times

All of human history in one very, very tall chart - Slate

The best of unreleased rap mixtape art - ANIMAL

R.I.P. The Charlatans drummer, Jon Brookes - Pitchfork

Heinz announces mass layoffs in Pittsburgh and Canada - Chron

Scold’s bridle, iron muzzle once used to punish women, for sale on eBay - Boing Boing

Watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force go space-rap with Flying Lotus - SPIN

The 388-year-old bonsai that survived Hiroshima - Twisted Sifter

How Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy learned to grow up and start firing his friends - Chicago Grid

Below, Buddha the 31-pound cat ordered to lose weight:

Video via Arbroath

 
These Monty Python behind-the-scenes photos are delightful - BuzzFeed

Internal anatomy of the clitoris - Boing Boing

“I’m 13 and none of my friends use Facebook” - Mashable

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop revealed, 57 page pdf detailing design - Tesla Motors

Philadelphia police officer who punched a woman in an incident that was caught on video is getting his job back - 6ABC.com

This incredible Make-A-Wish teenager went to the Gathering of the Juggalos, got a lap dance (NSFW) - Village Voice

At least 44 worshippers have been shot dead at a mosque in northeast Nigeria - BBC News

“The Smiths in Posters Exhibition” in Manchester - TheSmiths.cat

Paula Deen wins racial discrimination lawsuit that destroyed her - TMZ

“I work for a pet store. This is how betta fish are delivered from the vendor.” - reddit

Neanderthals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe - Science Daily

Where to watch the meteor shower tonight - Gothamist

Pregnant women whose labors are induced or augmented may have an increased risk of bearing children with autism, especially if the baby is male - Medical Express

8 signs the rich have way too much money - Salon

Bret McKenzie is making a Labyrinth-style musical - io9

Genetic Overlap Seen in Five Mental Disorders: Strongest link between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder -WebMD

Crashing The US Embassy Party With Anti-American Propaganda - GrapeVine

Baltimore police officer got a call about a ‘vicious’ pit bull and this is what happened next - Death and Taxes

A federal judge has found that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Department violated the constitutional rights of minorities in New York - New York Times

H&M withdraws ‘offensive’ headdresses after complaints of cultural insensitivity - Arbroath

Protein that delays cell division in bacteria may lead to the identification of new antibiotics - Washington University

Lemmy has been advised to retire, he admitted soon before cutting short the band’s performance at Wacken on Friday - Classic Rock Magazine

Dutch artist starting religion based around Facebook likes - UltraCulture

See Patti Smith give two dramatic readings of Allen Ginsberg’s Footnote to Howl - Open Culture

Some guy kicked a kitten on Vine, and now the Internet is out for blood - The Daily Dot

Furry accused of raping cat, possibly while dressed as a dog - Gawker

Listen to Giorgio Moroder remix Donna Summer’s “Love To Love You Baby” - Consequence of Sound

Below, Cinderella shilling for Pat’s Chili Dogs in 1983:

Video via Copyranter

 
Man who created own credit card sues bank for not sticking to terms - Telegraph

Detroit community beats alleged rapist of 15 y.o. girl with Down Syndrome after slow police response - WXYZ

Hear the never-before-released Bob Dylan song “Pretty Saro” (1970) - Open Culture

Circumcision training kit, fake gangrenous feet, fake blood, artificial fat, aged torsos & artificial earwax: the wonderful world of Life/Form trainers - Boing Boing

Watch the Melvins (with Jeff Pinkus) cover the Butthole Surfers’ “Graveyard” while giving kids free ice cream - AV Club

A new archaeological technique gives insight into the day before death - Phys.org

Roddy McDowall shows up in Planet of the Apes make-up on The Carol Burnett Show (1974) - Laughing Squid

Found Photos: Unearthed and collected by Dave Schubert while digging through dead people’s stuff at garage sales, estate sales, and flea markets - The World’s Best Ever

Colonies of bacteria balance growth against risk, just like financial investors, ecologists have found - BBC News

The Homeland Season 3 trailer has arrived, and it’s got everything you dreamed it would—including an ugly crying face - The Daily Beast

China’s replica of Paris is now an eerily depressing ghost town - Like Cool

Portraits of refugees holding their most precious possessions - My Modern Met

Finding Dory may be undergoing a sea change as Pixar is taking a page from a little-seen whale documentary, Blackfish - LA Times

LA’s new K-Pop museum will have holograms - ANIMAL

Dogs yawn along with their owners, revealing a human-like ability to empathise - Telegraph

NASA finds a pink planet that challenges current theories - Forbes

The caste system in South Asia — which rigidly separates people into high, middle and lower classes — may have been firmly entrenched by about 2,000 years ago - NBC News

Vietnamese father and son found 40 years after disappearing into jungle during the war - Death and Taxes

Video: These raunchy, raucous hotel pool parties are upsetting Park Ave neighbors - Gothamist

Virginia crisis pregnancy centers caught lying about abortion and contraception - Slate

For the first time, scientists have directly observed events that lead to the formation of a chromosome abnormality that is often found in cancer cells - Science Daily

Below, Jawbox perform “Savory” on 120 Minutes in 1994:

 
Remembering Harry Nilsson: American Beatle, filthy drunk, and the great lost music genius of the 1970s - Grantland

Deep Fried Spaghetti-Filled Meatballs - Neatorama

Bassist Tim Wright, of Pere Ubu and DNA, dies - Rolling Stone

13-year-old steals car, takes off on thousand-mile road trip to be with 12-year-old Internet boyfriend - Gawker

Experiments reveal that crabs and lobsters feel pain - Nature

A trailer for ChristCORE, a new documentary on the Christian hardcore scene - Christian Nightmares

Then and Now: HeloÌsa Pinheiro was the ‘Girl from Ipanema,’ a Rio native whose daily strolls past the Veloso Bar in 1962 inspired a global hit and put Brazil on the map - Daily Mail

Age-specific mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic: Unravelling the mystery of high young adult mortality - PLOS ONE

Marijuana stops child’s severe seizures - CNN

Tokyo’s “unmanned stores” - honor-system sheds where farmers sell their surplus produce - Boing Boing

DJ Charlie White presents a tribute mix of the legendary group Outkast - SoundCloud

Ukraine has banned the bass guitarist of the US rock group Bloodhound Gang from entering the country for five years after he appeared to urinate on the Ukrainian flag - BBC News

Outrage over an antigay law does not spread to Olympic officials - New York Times

The world’s tallest slum - Kottke

Jackie Robinson statue vandalized with swastikas and racial slurs - CBS Sports

Lady Gaga has a burqa problem - Jezebel

Brief summaries of the song lyrics of The Misfits, 1977-1983 - Lyrics Summerarized

A gay couple who were asked to sit in the back of a bus in New Mexico because they were holding hands have received an apology - NPR

A manicure 53 coats high - Laughing Squid

Greg Ginn ‘forced’ to sue FLAG, says Black Flag founder’s lawyer: Hardcore punks’ knock-down, drag-out feud drags on further - SPIN

Paul Dano as Brian Wilson for biopic - Yahoo

A Michigan doctor was arrested Tuesday on allegations of trying to make money from chemotherapy treatments to the point of intentionally misdiagnosing people with cancer - CBS Detroit

Below, Shellac live in Warwickshire, July 17, 1994:

By Cris Shapan!
 
Man dressed like Cornholio from Beavis and Butt-Head robs sushi bar - Death and Taxes

Watching Fox News makes people distrust science - Salon

George Duke, Jazz Keyboardist, Dead at 67: Genre-bridging musician and producer was known for work with Frank Zappa, Miles Davis - Rolling Stone

Adults could be at greater risk of becoming anxious and vulnerable to poor mental health if they were deprived of certain hormones while developing in the womb - Science Daily

American tourist accidentally snaps finger off priceless 600-year-old statue in Florence - The Independent

Why would two suspects caught up in a grisly murder investigation admit to a killing they didn’t commit? - The Atlantic

JetBlue shrinks Coach legroom to add first class premium “suites” - Gothamist

A summer camp in Florida that offers its kids the chance to participate in a real-life version of the Hunger Games is lifting some eyebrows around the world - Gawker

Life imitated art, startlingly and crudely, in the city of Hai’an, north of Shanghai, when two men rushed the stage and groped performance artist Yan Yinhong as she danced “One Person’s Battlefield” — her furious comment on sexual violence against women - New York Times

HBO is developing a comedy for The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl creator and star Issa Rae - Deadline

Mars Art: Rarely seen gems from Curiosity Rover’s raw image collection - Wired Science

‘Some girls have been married 60 times by the time they turn 18′ - Washington Post

Arctic ice grows darker and less reflective - New Scientist

Gay teenager abused by Russian neo-Nazis reported dead - The Daily Dot

Thousands of cheap vinyl up for grabs at a New York Public Library - ANIMAL

BP’s oil-spill settlement is engulfed in fraud - BusinessWeek

Bradley Manning’s maximum possible sentence cut to 90 years - Huffington Post

Life in a ‘dog cage’: Manhattan’s secret tenement offers hell for $10 a night - New York Post

Judge who accepted private-prison bribes to send black kids to jail sentenced to 28 years - Boing Boing

Below, “Break Up Your Band” by Chavez:

 
Olympic athletes will be “held accountable” for gaying it up, says Russian sports minister - ANIMAL

“Get off my lawn!” Connecticut shock rocker Rob Zombie hates skaters and the children - CT Boom h/t WFMU

Caribbean has lost 80% of its coral reef cover in recent years - Guardian

Dark and Cinematic: Photos by Elmo Tide - The World’s Best Ever

‘Evolution will punish you if you’re selfish and mean’ - Michigan State University

The story behind the classic game, Oregon Trail - Mental Floss

Parks and Rec will be just fine without Rashida Jones and Rob Lowe - FlavorWire

Moroccans outraged by a royal pardon for a Spanish paedophile serving a 30-year sentence for raping 11 children in the North African kingdom are planning a protest in Rabat on Friday - Reuters

Oxygen Brought Earliest Carnivores to Life: New research suggests reconciliation between two competing theories about the prehistoric origins of carnivores - Scientific American

There was once a RONNIE JAMES DIO video game for Nintendo called Holy Diver - Cherrybombed

How a convicted murderer prepares for a job interview - Long Reads

Climate change occurring ten times faster than at any time in past 65 million years - Science Daily

Kids’ Jeopardy! ended with the most heartbreaking wrong answer ever - DeadSpin

Harvard creates brain-to-brain interface, allows humans to control other animals with thoughts alone - Extreme Tech

Is Tumblr Shrinking? Yahoo bought Tumblr because Tumblr has millions of young users. But are they sticking around? - BuzzFeed

Charged With the Crime of Filming a Slaughterhouse: So-called “Ag-Gag” laws reveal the lengths to which the agriculture industry will go to keep their business practices secret - The Nation

Netflix now allows multiple queues on an account - Vulture

We Think He Might Be a Boy: Raising a transgender child - Friends Journal

Falling dentures thwarted bride-to-be’s plan to pass drugs to jailed groom with a kiss - Arbroath

Ultra-Orthodox protesters shatter bus windows after female passenger refuses to sit in back - Haaretz.com

Children, 7 and 10, faced “lifetime gag” in fracking settlement - Boing Boing

“Police threatened to arrest me for taking their photo last night” - The Stranger

Ariel Castro’s outrageous testimony must be seen to be believed - Jezebel

UPDATE: Via Rob Zombie’s Facebook page: “It seems nuts to even have to address this but I guess I will. Some really crazy articles have popped up making claims about “hating skaters” and “hating children” . None of this is true and it makes me sick that someone would print such lies.

There is a simple matter going on in which we are trying to find a solution that will make EVERYBODY happy. Unfortunately someone decided to turn it into a whole ugly event. What a bummer.”

Below, a moose running along I-95. Excitement ensues…

 
Scientists grow human tooth using stem cells taken from urine - The Independent

Sociopathic centrists beg Obama for “entitlement cuts” as Americans starve - Salon

A list of Stanley Kubrick’s favorite films - BFI

Fred Astaire dances with a drum kit in 1937’s A Damsel in Distress - WIMP h/t WFMU

Welcome To Camp Rave: Trippy laser portal in campfire - Geekologie

Nemo’s rescue needs your help - bOING bOING

Poliovirus outbreak in Somalia and Kenya - Washington Post

Boy whose lemonade stand was busted by cops invited to sell inside restaurant - Daily News

Conservatives concede defeat In Obamacare shutdown fight - TPM

Pastor John Hagee says rock music is ‘Satanic Cyanide,’ unwittingly names my next band - Christian Nightmares

Manly stroller is, sadly, a one-off - Neatorama

Man, 34, claims LAPD officers used excessive force during bike stop - CBS Los Angeles

Searching for genetically pure strains of marijuana in Colombia - The World’s Best Ever

Here are 12 shots of Godafoss, the most majestic (and hard to shoot) waterfall in Iceland - My Modern Met

Worry over how to pay for diapers is now among the top stressors for low-income parents - NBC News

Burning Man 2.0: Funded online, forged in the fire - The Daily Dot

Meet Glass, Lewis and Co., the company that got a food truck employee fired for offending them on Twitter - Boing Boing

J.R.R. Tolkien reads from The Two Towers, the second book of The Lord of the Rings trilogy - Open Culture

Masturbation, nudists, and street interviews: An oral history of HBO’s Real Sex - Vulture

Change.gov, the website of the Obama transition that went missing sometime last month, is now back online - Sunlight Foundation

Copper theft ‘like an epidemic’ sweeping US - CNBC

Below, The Make-up’s fictionalized tour-documentary ‘Blue Is Beautiful’ directed by James Schneider:

 
Parts 2-4 of the Make-up’s ‘Blue Is Beautiful’ after the jump…
 

Above: An oldie but goodie.
 
Gay bars’ ban on Russian vodka is going global - The Atlantic Wire

Nepal sees tiger population go up by 63% since 2009 - BBC

Pope: Door ‘closed’ on women priests - USA Today

Boys with autism or ADHD more prone to overuse video games - NPR

Tar sands oil has been leaking into Alberta, Canada for 10 weeks and no one knows how to stop it - Think Progress

Early photos of the blind experiencing a museum through touch - Atlas Obscura

In America, the cheese is dead - Kottke

Verdict to be read on Tuesday for Bradley Manning WikiLeaks case - Reuters

Why do we treat literature’s male and female alcoholics so differently? - FlavorWire

Nearly a third of NYC renters pay 50% or more of their annual income to simply exist in their homes - Gothamist

8 appalling ways America leads the world - Salon

Fast food workers to hold one-day strike to protest low wages - CBS New York

When William S. Burroughs joined Scientology (and his 1971 book denouncing it) - Open Culture

Real Housewives of New Jersey stars Teresa Giudice and her husband Joe have just been slapped with a laundry list of criminal charges—ranging from bank fraud to tax evasion—and now, they both face more than 50 years in prison - TMZ

Elephants are so crafty they carry out their raids on plantations to coincide with the darkest nights, scientists have found - Business Standard

India: A 17-year-old student was beaten to death by his classmates and their friends in full public view in Alwar district when he refused to give his pen to one of the accused during classes on Friday - Times of India

Serco: the company that is running Britain - The Guardian

Incan child mummies show evidence of sacrificial rituals - Nature.com

Bitcoin just became illegal in Thailand - The Daily Dot

Francis Bacon’s paintbrushes set to auction for $38,000 - ANIMAL

Below, The Jesus Lizard live on 4-29-1991 in Washington, DC: