Surgical Instruments from Ancient Rome

Man dies in government cancer drug trial

Scarless Surgery Uses Body's Own Openings

The poisoning of China's babies

How a $2 toy ball saved a little girl's life (via)

12 Very Common And Very Wrong Myths About The Human Brain

History of Alzheimer's Disease (via)

Surgical Instruments from Ancient Rome

Tests start on pill that could lengthen millions of lives

50 ways to instantly kick up your energy level to an all-time high

Tests for drugs in tap water

So just how healthy are you? It's all written in your hands

Man sues Md. doctor, says butt stapled shut

Man receives new leg after drink at his local pub

Even Viruses Catch Viruses

15 Diabetes-Friendly Snack Tips

Needle-Free Injection Invented (via)

The World’s Most Expensive Typos

Longest Words

Italians vote for ugliest English words

100 words most often misspelled

Phwoar, look at that fit stud muffin, says OED

20 Weird English Words

10 Misquotations of Real People

10 Overused Words in Writing

The World’s Most Expensive Typos

Carny Lingo - the Ultimate List

How you can help to save some cherished words from oblivion

AskOxford: Language Facts (via)

12 Greek Words You Should Know

Thsrs - The Shorter Thesaurus

In Balance

Puzzles / Illusions

Crazy Optical Illusions That Will Blow Your Mind

A Simple Illusion that Completely Screws Up Your Sense of Space




The simple trick of the hybrid image illusion


The science of optical illusions

Silencing is a new illusion that shows it's hard to notice when moving objects change

Top 10 finalists in the 2011 Illusion Contest

Optical and audio illusions: 15 videos to keep you entertained on your lunchbreak

I don't want to see a spiral

The Eclipse of Mars Illusion. Completely stunning.

Four Perfectly Round Circles. Neat illusion.

Illusion Sciences: why are we surprised by only some of the things that we see?

New Perspective Optical Illusion

Some Of The Most Interesting Art Illusions

Colorful Illustrations 93°C - Please DO NOT buy this book! Blog and Art stolen and turned into book!

The Origin of the Crossword Puzzle

Auditory Illusions : Holophonic Sound

Hidden Faces Illusion

A "Psychological" Optical Illusion

Optical Illusion: Einstein or Harry Potter?

A couple cool mind tricks for your brain

eChalk colour perception: This is the most amazing optical effect in the world

Unsolved math problems

Charlie Chaplin Optical Illusion

Illusion Science

Optical Illusion Pictures

Upside-Down Pictures

Excellent optical illusion

The Truth About the Spinning Dancer

Clothes / Fashion

Puma aiming to produce compostable trainers and T-shirts

The Official Apple Computers Apparel Collection From 1986 is Pretty Fantastic

10 Funny Fashion Trends We Thankfully Forgot About

10 Great Clothing Tricks in 60 Seconds

Dear America: You Cannot Wear Your Pajamas at All Times

The Fashion Disasters of TV Sports

16 Fashion Accessories that Can Kill

Fashion-concious men get a lift as the man-heel makes its entrance

Top 10 Most Bizarre Shoes in History

21 Horrible Fashion Ideas that Took Off

The Weird History of 6 Articles of Clothing

12 of the Most Bizarre Wedding Dresses

1969 High School Fashions


Great Moustaches and Moustache Types

Interesting choice of clothes

Where Are the Fashion Police When You Need Them?

Transformer costumes that actually transform!

London Underground Fashion Victims - a photoset on Flickr


Fishtank platform shoes

History's biggest fashion fouls

Chic Burton T-shirt, a snip at £12. Shame it spells out a hidden neo-nazi slogan

Hmm. Nice fit.


Fashions Past - Best & Worst

Tree sweater

Craziest Shoes From Around The World

The Best of Fashion Mockery

Hotpants in the 70's

Books and Literature

How the fatwa changed a writer’s life

The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History

How 8 Famous Writers Chose Their Pen Names

15 Classic Children’s Books That Have Been Banned In America

The Brooklyn bookshop saving out-of-print science fiction, one ebook at a time

10 awe-inspiring flip books

A Few Tolkien-rific Facts About the Book Version of The Hobbit

20 Beautiful Private and Personal Libraries

The Complete Works: Ranking All 62 Stephen King Books

The 20 Most Beautiful Children’s Books of All Time

11 Authors Who Hated the Movie Versions of Their Books

Why Publishers Don't Fact-Check Books

The Surprising Early Jobs of Our Favorite Famous Writers

The Hardy Tree: An Early Work of a Great Novelist

40 Famous Manuscripts That Were Rejected At First

Bookish four-year-old in trouble with police over $80 worth of library fines

The 10 Biggest Book Burnings in Literary History

7 Children’s Books Written in Response to Other Books

Seven Strange Writing Rituals

25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore

The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World

The Greatest Books of All Time, as Voted by 125 Famous Authors

The Top 100 Children's Books

Top 10 Books Written Behind Bars

10 Best-Selling Books That Were Originally Rejected

Classic Novels’ First Covers

Try, Try Again: Rejection Letters Received by Bestselling Authors

Literature's Best and Booziest: 15 Authors Who Were Also Addicts

12 Books That Have (Ironically) Been Banned in the U.S.

50 books that were banned

23 Rejected Covers of Famous Books

The 100 greatest non-fiction books

15 Weird and Mysterious Books

The best 100 closing lines from books

Strange Stories Of The World's Most Famous Sleuth

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

Book bound in human skin goes on display in Devon

What Dr. Seuss Books Were Really About

Good Show Sir - Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers

Amazon seller lists book at $23,698,655.93 -- plus shipping

The Fascinating Histories Behind Your Favorite Fairy Tales

Top 20 Best Selling Children’s Books of All Time

11 Random Facts About the 11 Most Popular Dr Seuss Books

Terrifying Children's Book Art of Japanese Monsters by Gojin Ishihara

Worst title ever for a book marketed to teenage girls

15 Famous Authors With Surprising College Majors

12 Strange Book Titles You Won’t Find In The Library

4 Book Sequels to Popular Movies…Best Left Unmade?

Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project

If at First You Don’t Succeed: Very Famous Book Rejections

The Vatican Archive: the Pope's private library

After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all

Bedtime stories gone awry (really weird children’s books)

The 10 strangest books in the English language

The 16 Best Dystopian Books Of All Time

Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf

Sniff test to preserve old books

Hitler's Forgotten Library

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Graham Greene

Awful Library Books

"The Lost Symbol" and the Freemasons: 8 Myths Decoded

10 Facts About Stephen King

Gay penguins book is most banned

Forgotten Books

Free Mathematics Books

25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

20 books guaranteed to warp kids' minds

Book Autopsies

The 13 Most Baffling Book Titles

The Idler - A Miscellany by Professor Solomon. Free PDF file.

A Simple Book Repair Manual

Failures of cinema - Top 10 Books That Were Better Off on Paper

20 Unusually Brilliant Bookcase and Bookshelf Designs

8 Odd Facts About Charles Dickens

The 10 Craziest How-To Books You Never Knew Existed

The Complete Literary Works of Mark Twain

Inappropriate: Excerpts from books aimed at 12 and under


Pop-up and Movable Books: A Tour Through Their HistoryDownload free vintage children's books at the Rosetta Project

£3m book targets Russian tycoons

The Most Unusual Books of the World

5 Famous Authors and Why They Were Perverts

Things found in books

What Books Have Changed Your Life?

Butchered Title Requests

My little Jedi

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Celebrity Mug Shots

A mixed bag of links.

Kivalina, Alaska: A Melting Village

Pirates 'want $35m for tank ship'

Japan holds diaper fashion show - for adults

Father leaves nine children at Nebraska hospital

World's Most Bizarre Magazines

Where Are Our Manners?

Celebrity Mug Shots

Procrastinator's Creed and Procrastination flowchart

Print your own Graph Paper

Found Cameras and Orphan Pictures (via)

Religious Tattoos

Radical Mullah who says Islam wil take over UK has topless pole-dancing daughter

Priest to hold nun beauty pageant

Religion: why do people believe in God?

Japanese call on deities to discipline wayward PCs

Church makes ‘ludicrous’ apology to Charles Darwin - 126 years after his death

7 Things From Pop Culture That Apparently Piss Jesus Off (via)

List of converts to Islam


Religious Tattoos

Pointless photo?

5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds?

Ten Verses Never Preached On

Colour Photos of Russian Churches 100 Years Ago and Today

Santa Claus: The Great Imposter

How Mars and Alaska Are Alike

Chinese Say They're Building 'Impossible' Space Drive

NASA’s Dirty Secret: Moon Dust

5 Retarded Space Travel Ideas (That Might Actually Work)

Hubble Finds Unidentified Object in Space, Scientists Puzzled

Mars Express acquires sharpest images of martian moon Phobos

Rocket successfully launched from South Pacific

NASA's Most Embarrassing Goofs

How Mars and Alaska Are Alike

Apollo 14 astronaut claims aliens HAVE made contact - but it has been covered up for 60 years. Hmm.

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