Nick Cave watches The Saints perform at the Tiger Room, Melbourne, 1977. Image via Suicide Watch.

A bone found in a garden in Suffolk belongs to what has been described as “the scariest animal that has ever lived in the sea” - BBC News

Patti Smith pays tribute to Lou Reed - New Yorker

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay more than $2.2 billion to resolve criminal and civil allegations that the company promoted powerful psychiatric drugs for unapproved uses in children, seniors and disabled patients - Big Story

Starfish are dying in huge numbers from a gruesome wasting disease - The Verge

80-year-old man survives after falling off a cliff while fighting a bear - TIME

Kylie Minogue joins Nick Cave on stage in London for duet - NME

Uncensored Instagrams from North Korea buck brutal trend of secrecy - Wired

Kuwaiti woman arrested in Saudi Arabia for driving her diabetic father to hospital - The Independent

Mass killings can haunt elephants for decades - Science Mag

Billy Corgan in talks to purchase TNA Wrestling - Consequence of Sound

50 incredibly tough books for extreme readers - FlavorWire

Nick Cardy, a revered and influential comic book artist known best for his DC Comics work in the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s, passed away Sunday at age 93 - CBR

Morrissey’s autobiography audiobook to be read by David Morrissey of The Walking Dead - Pitchfork

Herbal supplements are often not what they seem - New York Times

NSA, GCHQ among worst surveillance offenders, Snowden says - CNN

Dissident poet Joseph Brodsky gives life tips to college grads (1988) - Open Culture

1.8 tonnes of ivory found in Chinese home in Tanzania - Wildlife News

CIA made doctors torture suspected terrorists after 9/11 - The Guardian

Lamenting Madagascar’s last lonely lemurs - Global Post

Even in the dark, brain “sees” its own body’s movement - Vanderbilt University
 

Below, an absolutely wonderful useless dog trick:

 
Who’s Next? New Doctor Peter Capaldi may stay just 13 episodes - Express.co.uk

This is what the decrease in food stamp benefits means for your state - BuzzFeed

Meet the American nomads of Walmart’s plentiful parking lots - Wired

T. rex grew beefier than museum fossils suggest - Nature

Japan likely to pass new secrecy law that would put whistleblowers and journalists in jail - TechDirt

Student sent home because black Jesus costume made teachers uncomfortable - Awfbase

Mishaps and deaths caused by surgical robots going underreported to FDA - PBS

Germany may invite Edward Snowden as witness in NSA inquiry - The Guardian

Blind woman, 67, faces eviction after land sold for $43 - Chicago Tribune

Third sex now legal in Germany: Newborns now not considered boy nor girl - Parent Herald

Pacific Ocean ‘warming 15 times faster than ever before’ - The Independent

Stream of reports say Pakistani Taliban leader died in drone strike - New York Times

Infected ‘zombees’ in San Francisco may help scientists understand honey bee decline - Huffington Post

New musical SPEARS will tell story of Jesus Christ through Britney Spears songs - NME

Marijuana smokers may get high—taxes - USA Today

What your dog’s tail wagging tells you about his emotions - The Independent

Below, “My Little Pony: Friendship is Manly”:

Video via Metafilter

Happy Halloween!
 
Bats confirmed as SARS origin - CSIRO and more here

Former Brazilian footballer’s head left on his doorstep - CNN

Mr. Show: “Monster Parties; Fact or Fiction?” - YouTube

Read Laurie Anderson’s tribute to Lou Reed - East Hampton Star CoS

House Republicans announce how many days they’ll work next year (hint: not very many) - Daily Kos

Seven insane minutes of people explaining how ‘80s toys are satanic - io9

Switzerland is ‘worst place to make friends’ - TheLocal.ch

Time Warner Cable on Thursday reported the steepest quarterly loss of television subscribers in its history - New York Times

Japan’s coastal hunts for small cetaceans not sustainable: Pursuit of whale, dolphin and porpoise species should be phased out - The Guardian

Youth minister charged with sex crime against child - ABC

Seattle police are handing out speeding tickets not only to drivers, but to bicyclists - Seattle Times

‘Fig leaf coming soon’: Church replies to ‘penis-shaped’ comments after picture goes viral - The Independent

Staphylococcus δ-toxin induces allergic skin disease by activating mast cells - Nature

Halloween mixes from Death Waltz Recording Co. - Boing Boing

26 Halloween costume ideas from an 1887 guide to fancy dress - Mental Floss

Below, The Specials perform “Ghost Town” on Top of the Pops:
 

Image via Liar Town USA
 
How to eradicate Bitstrips from your Facebook for good - The Daily Dot

London’s cheapest suburb? It’s Barcelona - The Local

Most Canadians see Edward Snowden as a hero, poll suggests - Huffington Post

LSD-laced bread at Casper College prompts investigation - Trib.com

The most terrifying PBS special of all time - AV Club

Motörhead have postponed their European tour, which was due to start next week, after mainman Lemmy realised he wasn’t fit enough to hit the road - Classic Rock Mag

Police seek man who pepper-sprayed woman before stealing her monkey - Arbroath

North Carolina biology teacher has students share needles to determine blood type - reddit

By measuring the electrical activity of cheek muscles and associated neural responses, Princeton University researchers show that people are actually biologically responsive to taking pleasure in the pain of others, a reaction known as “Schadenfreude.” - Princeton.edu

Four brand new David Bowie songs - NME

Stop Marina Abramović! - The Marina Abramović Retirement Fund of America

New trailer arrives for THE VISITOR, the sci-fi epic 1979 couldn’t handle - Badass Digest

Adobe says data for 38 million customers compromised - The Irish Times

Who to dress as for Halloween if you want to start a fight - FlavorWire

A town in Norway on Wednesday began to get winter sun for the first time in its 100-year history after it started beaming down the sun from giant mirrors erected on hills to its north - TheLocal.no

Bitcoin cashes in as its first ATM opens in Vancouver - The Guardian

Artificial blood made in Romania - Balkan News in English

Behind the scenes of Blood Manor, one of NYC’s scariest haunted houses - Gizmodo

Sheffield stab victim killed on final pizza delivery - BBC News

Skokie officer charged with battery after video of face slamming goes viral - Chicago Tribune

Researchers use microscope equipped camera to learn how ticks pierce and adhere to skin (w/ video) - Phys.org

Below, a two-year-old operates an excavator:

Photo via Retrogasm
 
Syria polio outbreak confirmed by WHO - BBC News

The fascinating math equations that show up on The Simpsons - Slate 

10 gorgeous, nostalgic photos of New York’s old Penn Station - Atlantic Cities

‘We hurt a lot of people,’ Westboro pastor’s granddaughter says - NPR

Millennium Falcon turntable - Boing Boing

Genome hacker uncovers largest-ever family tree - Nature

Woodchip giant Australian Bluegum Plantations stripped of environmental certification over koala deaths - ABC.net.au

BBC coverage criticised for favouring climate change sceptics - The Guardian

Lou Reed remembered by Blondie’s Debbie Harry & Chris Stein: ‘His hypnotic voice will live forever’ - Billboard

The Psychological Power of Satan: How a belief in “pure evil” shapes people’s thinking - Scientific American

Woman wearing ‘abusive wife’ costume arrested for beating up boyfriend - Gawker

Spain’s prosecutor’s office says it has opened a preliminary inquiry into allegations that Spain was a target for surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency. - AP

Two Lou Reed tracks look set to re-enter the UK Official Singles Charts Top 40 this weekend - NME

The 10 scariest places on Google Street View - The Daily Dot

NYPD trying to catch skateboarders to the tune of the Benny Hill theme song - YouTube h/t Skye Nicolas

Wikileaks has set up a new website, Free Snowden, to collect money to defend National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden - The Verge

Eyetrack study captures men’s — and women’s — objectifying gazes - UNL Today

Britain’s Cameron says may act against newspapers over spy leaks - Reuters
 
Below, the most stomach-churning thing you’ll see today. How to make ‘gutter oil’:

Video via reddit

Image of Hans Langseth aka King Whiskers.
 
The leader of Poland’s Catholic Church has come under a wave of condemnation by appearing to suggest that children are partly to blame for being sexually abused by priests - AP

Guided By Voices cut ties with drummer selling $55,000 drum kit - Pitchfork

Bahrain just bought more tear gas canisters than it has citizens - VICE

Teens now more likely to get genital herpes because they didn’t get cold sores as kids - PopSci

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg & Margaret Mead explain the meaning of “Beat” in rare 1950s audio clips - Open Culture

First venomous crustacean discovered living in underwater caves - Phys.org

Slayer: ‘We need to sit down and talk about the future – if we HAVE a future’ - Classic Rock Mag

New footage showing Catalan police allegedly beating a man to death in Barcelona’s gay quarter has made the case a major talking point in Spain - The Local

Babies know when you’re faking - Parent Herald

The Vatican has suspended a senior German Church leader dubbed the “bishop of bling” by the media over his alleged lavish spending - BBC News

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will complete its phase-out of all inhaler medical products containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by Dec. 31, 2013. - FDA

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Wil Wheaton, and Oliver Stone star in anti-NSA ad - Gawker

American Horror Story finally perfects its twisted brand of feminism in Coven - FlavorWire

Watch Banksy’s “Sphinx” get dismantled and driven away - ANIMAL

Dr Feelgood guitarist Gypie Mayo dies aged 62 - NME

Blood Sucking Freaks: Herzog’s Nosferatu Revisited - The Quietus

Bro freaks out on ‘shrooms, punches nurse in hospital - Death and Taxes

The Spy Who Copied Me: James Bond-themed rip-off books - Voices of East Anglia

Mars air turned to stone to cool planet - New Scientist

Gallup poll: 58% of Americans support legal weed - Boing Boing

Below, dad makes 22-month-old baby a LED light suit for Halloween:

Video via reddit

Cat with tweezers. Photo via Arbroath
 
Poachers kill 300 Zimbabwe elephants with cyanide - The Telegraph

New website tracks how many people have died in your house - Gothamist

Sign the petition to publish Delia Derbyshire’s music from the BBC Sound Archive! - The Petition Site

Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski to one-legged beggar: “Get a job.” Kawczynski told amputee: “I know it’s hard but I’ve struggled too.” - The Independent

Charles Darwin’s son draws pictures on the manuscript of On the Origin of Species - Open Culture

Seattle police want to remind everyone that thrift stores can’t resell donated bags of marijuana - Arbroath

Chemical ‘clock’ tracks ageing more precisely than ever before - Nature

Leslie Lemke: blind, savant piano player on That’s Incredible! (1981) - Boing Boing

Brazilian activists have stormed a laboratory in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo and freed some 200 Beagle dogs used for drug testing - The Journal.ie

Finnish team makes diabetes vaccine breakthrough - YLE

Beatles’ “Get Back” Mariachi-style - YouTube

Despite end of U.S. shutdown, Antarctic research projects still getting canceled - Science Insider

UK Wikipedia editors have expressed “shock and dismay” at the discovery of hundreds of user accounts set up to make paid-for entries - BBC News

The lesser-known posters of Jean-Luc Godard - MUBI

Morrissey comes out as a Humasexual - Dlisted

OH YEAH! ‘80s Kool-Aid blooper reel is a treasure trove - Deadspin

Scientists say they have moved a step closer to banishing bald spots and reversing receding hairlines after human hair was grown in the laboratory - BBC Health

Totes Adorbs: Kids pose as if Banksy is smashing their wittle heads - ANIMAL

Below, a ghost robs a liquor store:

Image via Cherry Bombed

BitTorrent search site IsoHunt will shut down, pay MPAA $110 million - Ars Technica

Brazil’s biggest drug cartel promises a ‘World Cup of terror’ as violent demonstrations take over the streets - Daily Mail

Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolution into disarray - The Guardian

Kim Jong Un’s luxurious ‘seven-star’ lifestyle of yachts, booze and food - Huffington Post

Regardless of bladder size, all mammals pee for approximately 21 seconds (with video goodness) - Discover Magazine

New study shows that brains process the pain of villains more than the pain of people we like - iTech Post

Justin Bieber covers Metallica’s “Fade To Black” (sorry in advance) - NME

“Don’t Try”: Charles Bukowski’s concise philosophy of art and life. Learn and practice it - Open Culture

Pope to auction Harley Davidson motorcycle to benefit homeless - NCR

Man throws parrot at police - Boing Boing

An army of robot baristas could mean the end of Starbucks as we know it - Quartz

Brain treats rejection like physical pain say scientists - The Independent

Dolphins butchered for shark bait in illegal hunt off the coast of Peru - ITV

First 24 hour automated library in U.S. installed in Norman, Oklahoma - KFOR

Astronomers discover a massive asteroid that could hit us in 2032 - io9

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday classified outdoor air pollution as a leading cause of cancer in humans - Raw Story

Sources confirm Minneapolis Police officers will wear body cameras starting in 2014 - KSTP

Study: Poor children are now the majority in American public schools in South, West - Washington Post

Below, crooks steal 7-foot Gumby sculpture:

 
“On what would have been Nico’s 75th birthday, we revisit that 1972 Velvet Underground “reunion” with Lou Reed and John Cale” - MOJO

France’s highest court on Wednesday upheld several convictions for “organized fraud” against the Church of Scientology - The Local

The Weirdest Things Recently Found on Mars - Wired

Artist draws nine portraits on LSD during 1950s research experiment - Open Culture

Why did YouTube pull Anonymous’s warning to Maryville? - The Daily Dot

Russian men beat up Dutch diplomat in his apartment, scrawl heart and “LGBT” in lipstick - BuzzFeed

Kenya to microchip all rhinos’ horns to beat poachers - Phys.org

74-year-old NYC woman to her rapist: ‘Rot in hell’ - AP

Cockroach farms multiplying in China - LA Times

Scientists have discovered the best-preserved nervous system in an ancient fossil - BBC News

Kim Deal ‘welcome to rejoin Pixies’ says drummer Dave Lovering - NME

Couple aged 92 and 88, married 68 years, die holding hands after car accident - KTVB

Every Day Counts: Yoko Ono Interviewed - The Quietus

Pregnant women have been urged to avoid food and drinks heated up in plastic containers after a study found certain chemicals can increase the risk of miscarriage by 80 per cent - The Telegraph

Only 8.01% of money spent on pink NFL merchandise is actually going towards cancer research - Business Insider

Accused Silk Road boss just hired a high-profile national security lawyer - The Verge

Bats use ear trumpets for social calls - Nature

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s sued for $50 million for killing 80-year-old man in “meth raid” that found no meth - Boing Boing

Activist rescues sheep from Brooklyn butcher, but it’s the wrong sheep - Gothamist

Below, Nico performs “Genghis Khan” in 1979:

Meet Tuna.
 
Sacred albino moose killed by hunters - TreeHugger h/t Nicole Panter

Man in the Mirror: The Photographic visions of Graham Nash - MOJO

NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally - The Washington Post

Males who chose red as their color in a competitive task had higher testosterone levels than other males who chose blue - APS

Motown charm school instructor Maxine Powell dies aged 98 - NME

China confirms new human H7N9 infection - China.org

Nutrient pollution threatens national park ecosystems, study says - LA Times

Stream Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder’s previously unreleased “La Dolce Vita” - SPIN

Bomb hoax at school, school punishes all male students, even those not involved - reddit

Xeni Jardin: standing up to breast cancer in public and in private - The Guardian

Student-faculty research shows Oreos are just as addictive as drugs in lab rats - Connecticut College News

Our music tastes change as we get older to match the shifting social circumstances of our lives, according to a new study - The Telegraph

Lake Superior is warming faster than any of the other Great Lakes. In fact, it’s warming faster than any lake on the planet - PRI

Sudden disappearance of sardines has serious economic and ecological effects on the B.C. coast - The Vancouver Sun

Majority of U.S. fast-food workers need public assistance - Reuters

Moose die-off alarms scientists - New York Times

Apes comfort each other ‘like humans’ - BBC News

Cyberbullying-suicide suspect: Yes, I bullied girl who killed herself - Orlando Sentinel

Living relatives of iceman mummy found - Discovery

Not Just Foster Farms: Other chicken may also be contaminated with salmonella - LA Weekly

Below, “HELL NO: The Sensible Horror Film”

 
Study shows non-hallucinogenic cannabinoids are effective anti-cancer drugs - Alpha Galileo

Popular sports supplements contain meth-like compound - USA Today

Spain’s wealth divide widest in Europe - The Local

What to do when you find a parasitic worm living in your face - Wired

Ben Wheatley to direct Doctor Who - The Quietus

Insect’s bloated abdomen carries traces of blood molecules that are 46-million-years old - Nature

Who created the famous shower scene in Psycho? Alfred Hitchcock or the legendary designer Saul Bass? - Open Culture

NSA claims it doesn’t do online attacks; That’s a different organization… run by The NSA - TechDirt

For your Halloween audio needs, a 70-minute horror music / sound effects spectacular: “The Horror” - WFMU

Malaysia court rules non-Muslims cannot use ‘Allah’ - BBC News

The World’s First Hunk: Why We’re Obsessed with Muscle Men - Collectors Weekly

A freak October blizzard earlier this month killed tens of thousands of cattle in South Dakota - NPR

Radioactive polonium found on Yasser Arafat’s clothing - The Telegraph

Vixen guitarist Jan Kuehnemund dead aged 51 - NME

Tiny clothed monkey grooms cat - Boing Boing

NYPD arrests homeless man learning how to code - Gothamist

CIA asset implicated in 1985 murder of undercover DEA agent in Mexico - Daily Kos

Hacker activist group Anonymous set to target rural Missouri town for not prosecuting rapists - reddit

Why does maximum heart rate drop with age? - EurekAlert

Eating popcorn in the cinema makes people immune to advertising - The Guardian

Monkey with prosthetic hand gets sense of touch - New Scientist

Study links warmer water temperatures to greater levels of mercury in fish - Washington Post

Quentin Tarantino’s Top 10 Movies of 2013 - High Snobiety

Below, a Japanese kindergarten class sings It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia‘s “Dayman”:

 
New research has shown that the stomach naturally produces more stem cells than previously realized - Washington University in St. Louis

Google will soon put your face, name, and content in its ads - Ars Technica

Study proves “old person smell” is real - Discover Magazine

David Lynch Presents the History of Surrealist Film (1987) - Open Culture

Watch Elizabeth Warren explain the debt limit so it actually makes sense, for once - Death and Taxes

R.I.P. Kumar Pallana, star of several Wes Anderson movies - AV Club

Study: We’ll Enjoy Food More If You Don’t Instagram It - The Atlantic

Horrifying flesh-rotting Krokodil drug being peddled at NYC hot spots - Gothamist

New research shows elephants spontaneously understand the communicative intent of human pointing and can use it as a cue to find food - Wired

David Byrne blasts music streaming sites - NME

Neighbours reported hearing screams as the Chinese man removed his leg because he was unable to pay a hospital for the surgery - Sky News

Never before seen super-potent meth found in Texas middle school - Gawker

$470,000 on wardrobes, $20,000 on a bath tub and $1 million on his garden - A German Catholic bishop has upset a few people with this kind of spending - reddit

Everyone is leaving rural Scotland because the Internet is too slow - Mashable

New York City’s undercover cop problem is totally out of control - Boing Boing

Bloomberg gets caught up in Mexico soda tax fight - New York Times

China criticises “mind-boggling political infighting” over issue of raising America’s $16.7 trillion debt ceiling - Telegraph

Ancient women artists may be responsible for most cave art - Smithsonian

Sleeping in on the weekends doesn’t fix all the deficits caused by workweek sleep loss - APS

Below, Banksy’s “Sirens of the Lambs” Truck in NYC:

Via KMFW

Obama Jones?
 
30,000 year old Brazilian artifacts throw wrench in theory humans first arrived in Americas 12,000 years ago - Raw Story

Weatherman eats ‘food’ off the floor, finds out it’s cat vomit - Gawker

Bryan Cranston responds to Britney Spears’ complaints with Breaking Bad finale – NME

Tiny marsupials have such frantic sex it kills them - Discovery

World’s first malaria vaccine on course for 2015 - New Scientist

Motörhead drummer’s warning to Lemmy - Classic Rock Mag

Girls in Pakistan see Taliban victim Malala as heroine - USA Today

John Lennon’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Defaced - Hollywood Reporter

Extreme climate will hurt Tropics first, not the Arctic - Scientific American

There was uproar in the French parliament this week when an opposition deputy made sexist clucking noises during a speech by a female Green Party MP - The Local

We spend billions a year maintaining phone lines (almost) nobody depends on. Should we get rid of them? - Washington Post

Compounds in marijuana can treat multiple sclerosis in mice by reducing inflammation in the brain and spinal cord - ALN

U.S. builders hoard mineral rights under new homes- Reuters

Millions of veterans will miss disability payments if the shutdown continues - PBS

“Chimpanzees of a Feather Sit Together”: Friendships are based on homophily in personality - University Herald

A decision to cancel Halloween celebrations at an elementary school in Montgomery County is stirring controversy among some parents - ABC

A dollop of peanut butter and a ruler might be a way to confirm a diagnosis of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease - Futurity

‘They were completely oblivious’: Hundreds of passengers on packed commuter train were so engrossed in mobile phones that they failed to spot gun-wielding student killer - Independent

This bird can stay in flight for six months straight - Smithsonian Mag

Guilty dog is guilty walking:

 
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:

 
Well, Netflix’s stock sure started looking good on the eve of the government shutdown - Washington Post

Massive dinosaur fossil unearthed by Alberta pipeline crew - CBC News

Piracy isn’t killing the entertainment industry, scholars show - TorrentFreak

How The Baby Boomers Stole Music With Myths Of A Golden Age - The Quietus

Human brain boiled in its skull lasted 4000 years - New Scientist

Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul is likely to be more dark than funny - The Verge

Flipper FM! Dolphins prefer Radiohead & sitar music to hard rock - Radar Online

Teachers in China have the highest levels of public respect, according to an international study comparing their status in 21 countries - BBC News

The Jam to release career-spanning eight-disc box set in November - NME

625 wolves left in Montana, over 6000 permits to hunt them issued - Digital Journal

Why are there still so few women in science? New York Times

Two filmmakers are seeking funding to complete work on a short film titled Fleecing Led Zeppelin, exploring the aftermath of the theft of $200,000 from the band in 1973 - Classic Rock Mag

James McCormick’s fake bomb detectors ‘still used in Iraq’ - The Guardian

School bans popular ‘Hump Day’ phrase - KENS 5 News

Colorado mom visited by child protective services for treating son’s cancer with medical marijuana instead of chemotherapy - New York Daily News

French lawmakers unanimously approved a new bill on Thursday aimed at supporting small bookstores struggling in the face of giant online retailers like Amazon - The Local

Chinese tourists warned not to pick noses or urinate in public - CNBC

12-year-old Stamford girl arrested for bullying - WTNH News

Don’t want your Web dating service matching you up with any fatties? There’s a fee for that - NY Post

Traffic fumes make honeybees unable to recognise flower scent, study shows - The Guardian

Below, Pink Floyd “Astronomy Domine” live, 1968: