Discovered: Video games can help dyslexic kids read; pregnancy increases foot size; around 100 million sharks are killed annually; mammalian sperm swims upstream.
Insane Clown Posse plans to sue the FBI, who've called the Juggalos "a loosely-organized hybrid gang." But ICP should've welcomed the attention. Having an FBI rap sheet has always been a rite of passage for musicians.
Today in books and publishing: Science fiction author Harry Harrison dies; the fight over DRM; a look inside the Zeitoun Foundation's books; Google allowed to challenge authors' group status.
The tech world is getting excited about a tiny machine that prints items from the Internet, as Rebecca Greenfield wrote earlier today. But one commenter brought up an interesting question: Why not just buy a newspaper?
Discovered: Large Hadron Collider produces the hottest matter ever; female ADHD sufferers are more prone to self-harm; a snake affliction identified; hide beetles get turned on by death.
Today in books and publishing: Susan G. Komen exec to tell her side of the Planned Parenthood story; bookstore imitates Chabon's fiction; Woodward's next book will cover Obama's economic strategy.
Last week, Jen Doll compiled a 'Dictionary of Despicable Words.' The German words zeitgeist and schadenfreude didn't make her initial list, but our readers overwhelmingly disdained them. All except for one.
Discovered: Genetically "upgraded" fruit flies; mummification was invented during heavy rainfall; egg yolks speed atherosclerosis almost as much as cigarettes; dark matter detected in our galaxy.
Today in books and publishing: Comic book artist and educator Joe Kubert dies; how unwanted books get recycled; Will Apple back the Orange Prize?
Discovered: Mars exhibits signs of plate tectonics; the natural form of a recently developed substance came from space; bacteria makes drinking water healthier; circuits at your fingertips.
Today in books and publishing: Senn Penn wants to adapt a survival memoir; Bruce Wagner grosses out Michiko Kakutani; David Barton's bad history recalled; The New York Times on immigrants' literary tastes.
David Rakoff, a writer known for his funny, cynical essays and frequent appearances on This American Life, has died at 47. He had been battling a malignant tumor since 2010.
Today, Jen Doll looked at the New York Times' justification for not printing STFU Parents, the name of a popular blog. But, as one commenter noted, the paper is just fine with printing LMFAO.
Discovered: Stressed out men prefer bigger women; plumbing the brain's stem cells; the male sandpiper skips sleep in favor of sex; microbes could help sewage treatment power itself.
Today in books and publishing: The Los Angeles Times has a new books editor; an onslaught of celebrity books; James Franco casts for As I Lay Dying; female authors take over best-of and best-seller lists.
At a time of heightened controversy, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art hasn't received payments from their billionaire benefactor Eli Broad. Without his support, how long can MOCA last?
Today, Jen Doll declared 2012 the year of the exclamation point. Our commenters totally agreed!
Discovered: Space, brought to you in 3D; thin diabetics worse off than overweight ones; for some women, giving birth is a traumatic event; Nipah virus can be prevented in monkeys.
Today in books and publishing: McSweeney's launches a pro-Obama site; the future of UNO Press unclear; Joan Rivers compares Costco to Nazi Germany.
A commenter finds that white supremacists using emoticons can be both repulsive and morbidly funny.
Discovered: We give up searching when targets are few and far between; studying the urban landscape; science teachers release invasive species into the wild; inside the brains of hoarders.
Today in books and publishing: Chicago Public Library bestows amnesty; rediscovering Thomas Browne; Google accused of copyright infringement; the results from NPR's Y.A. poll.
Robert Hughes, the fearless art critic known for his scathing Time reviews and the documentary The Shock of the New, has died.
Even as details emerged that the shooter who terrorized a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin played in a white supremacist band and sported racist tattoos, members of the white supremacist forum Stormfront have bent over backwards to avoid any association with the shooting.
Discovered: Revisiting an experiment used to disprove free will; creatine helps women batlle depression; dilated eyes show sexual attraction; mothers underestimate the rise of childhood obesity in China.
Today in books and publishing: Backlist sales are way down; Karl Ove Knausgaard reviewed in The New Yorker; writing on the subway; its hard to be commemorated in London; is the lit world really too nice?
Rebecca Greenfield showed why cable companies should be less worried about cord-cutters than cord-nevers. One of our commenters explains why he'd never pay for cable.
On Wednesday, PaidContent's Daniel Frankel looked at a study that claimed Netflix streaming dropped 25 percent thanks to the Olympics. But a new report shows Netflix streaming going up.
Discovered: Elephants communicate through "infrasound"; allergies may help prevent brain cancer; playfulness is attractive; 97% of Greenland's surface ice is melting.
Today in books and publishing: Jacob Silverman thinks there's an epidemic of niceness in book world; Nabokov rhapsodizes about boxing; a start-up that datamines books; teen Rookie editor gets a book deal.
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart pointed out all the ways news channels spoil Olympics results for viewers, even when they say they won't.
Author Jared Diamond recently claimed that Mitt Romney misread Guns, Germs and Steel. The situation reminded one commenter of Dan Quayle's supposed interpretation of a Robert Redford film.
Discovered: Caffeine helps Parkinson's sufferers; cancer stem cells drive tumor growth; the features of super intelligent brains; some Peruvians have developed rabies resistance.
Today in books and publishing: Fantasy author reflects on a significant encounter; Turkey's obscenity trial grinds on; Jared Diamond says Romney misinterpreted his book; first-edition Shakespeare goes digital.
After taking a sad look at a video in which Barack Obama donates to his own campaign on The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart was curious to find out what exactly the president is up against. Can Mitt Romney be pinned down on the specifics to any of his platforms?
Discovered: That athletic tape doesn't do much; sleep trouble isn't just a first world problem; fruit flies on meth die from anorexia; squids detach their own arms to evade predators.
Today, Serena Dai took a look at the flight paths some corpses take to reach their final resting places. One of our commenters got to wondering if the dead have to go through the same airport security measures as the rest of us.
Citizen Kane's reign at the top of Sight & Sound's greatest film polls goes all the way back to 1962. But this year, Vertigo climbs ahead of Orson Welles' film.
Today in books and publishing: Dennis Rodman writes a children's book; doubts cast about Ryszard Kapuściński; Gore Vidal dies; another seven-figure Twilight fan fiction book deal.
Some comments Mitt Romney made in Israel about culture's influence on economic growth have come under fire. Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart interpreted what exactly Romney may have been implying.
Discovered: Human relative detected in hunter-gatherer DNA; watching the imperial cormorant's deep-sea food dive; endangered whale song recorded; malaria vaccines don't bestow malaria immunity.
Today in books and publishing: Ireland's "national treasure" Maeve Binchy dies; Y.A. author to write erotica; the Berenstain Bears are drawn into the Chick-fil-A controversy; why e-publishing isn't so promising for self-published writers.
Serena Dai's interactive feature on Huma Abedin's alleged "connections" to the Muslim Brotherhood got commenters wondering about all the flimsy connections one can draw between unrelated people.
Discovered: Wasps store yeast in their guts; one cause of blindness in newborns has been identified; science explains why we love karaoke; and start getting used to droughts.
Chris Marker, the highly-regarded filmmaker behind La Jetée and Sans Soleil, is dead at 91.
Today in books and publishing: India's diplomats have a penchant for poetry; the US and EU stall treaty for blind readers; Cloud Atlas sales get a big trailer bump; F. Scott Fitzgerald meditates on smoking.
Today, Adam Martin took a look at Newark Mayor Cory Booker's future policial ambitions. A name familiar to anyone who's hunted for an apartment in the last few years turned up in the comments section.
Discovered: Tanzania might profit from global warming; massive stars suck their partners dry; it's hard to remember things on ecstasy; researching the benefits of barefoot running.
Ever since he was appointed to head up Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art two years ago, New York gallerist-turned-museum director Jeffrey Deitch has ruffled feather, but after a string of bitter resignations, the art world star is now under pressure to step down.
Today in books and publishing: JK Rowling builds a treefort Hogwarts; a change in leadership at The Bookseller; Amazon's income takes a tumble; writers weigh in on 50 Shades.
Rich Kids of Instagram got lots of people talking about about self-presentation and socioeconomic status on social media. One commenter agreed with Rebecca Greenfield's take on the issue.
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