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We may be biased, but we think the human brain is pretty special. All this week, mentalfloss.com is celebrating this miracle organ with a heap of brain[y] stories, lists, and videos. It all leads up to Brain Surgery Live With mental_floss, a two-hour television event hosted by Bryant Gumbel. The special airs Sunday, October 25 at 9 p.m. EST on the National Geographic Channel. From relieving pain to winning games, these 11 tricks have got you covered. 1. COUGH WHEN YOU GET A SHOT. The doctor’s office, the needle, the pain … nobody likes getting shots. We can’t do anything … Continue reading →

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For all the advice she had received about not looking too imperious and arrogant, at times Hillary Clinton could barely hide her disgust at having to defend her record as U.S. Secretary of State from such a miserable bunch of accusers. On Thursday, in the most hotly anticipated Washington showdown for years, she was grilled for 11 hours by a Republican-dominated congressional committee investigating the 2012 killings by Islamic extremists of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya. Millions of U.S. TV viewers watched agog. It wasn’t so much the answers to the tragedy they were interested … Continue reading →

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I hadn’t checked in on alternative music (or whatever they’re calling it these days) and was disappointed to discover the Thought Police have taken over there, too. Today’s rebels follow the same strict guidelines college campuses do and to stray from the path is to be banished from Outsider Village. The good news is, the music’s improved. Whirr are a band from San Francisco that does an instrumental onslaught of intense rock that sounds like it should be the soundtrack to that rape movie Baise-moi. Another great new band, G.LO.S.S., is much easier to classify. They’re just modern punk with … Continue reading →

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The Free Market 13, no. 5 (May 1995) You’re looking for a job. You want to get paid several times your worth, come and go when you please, work only when you feel like it, take as long a lunch as you want, and get ten paid holidays per year and six weeks paid vacation per year. There’s only one way to go: work for the federal government. Few Americans, I’m afraid, have any idea, what it’s like. If they did, there would be a political earthquake. As a member of the Parasitic Class for 15 years, I have witnessed … Continue reading →

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Most people come to Mayfair to buy. It could be dinner at Scott’s or a little but rather expensive something from the boutiques on Mount Street. Perhaps it’s a fancy car from Jack Barclay on Berkeley Square. The Bentley Bentayga, the firm’s first 4×4 — bigger than the average starter home and more expensive — is currently the most coveted ride for one per centers. Biggest of all is a new house. The starting price for a pied-à-terre is £5m and the damage quickly rises to £40m. Heyrick Bond Gunning — yes, that really is his name — visits Mayfair most … Continue reading →

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A pile of dirty dishes, leaving the toilet seat up and coming home drunk from the pub are just some of the scenarios that can spark blazing rows up and down the country. In order to help couples squabble more successfully, leading lawyer Jonathan Herring has penned a book called How To Argue. In his entertaining, no-holds-barred guide, the Oxford-based professor reveals everything Brits need to know about bickering and tips on how to emerge triumphant. Before bumping heads with a loved one, Jonathan says it’s vital to fully think through what it is you want to say. ’Make sure you … Continue reading →

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British trainee analysts at a leading investment bank’s New York office have been sacked after they were caught cheating in a “basic” maths test, the Telegraph understands. The disgraced junior bankers are said to have been told to pay for their own flights home after instructors discovered the foul play. It is understood that nearly a dozen of the trainee analysts at JP Morgan, some of whom are British graduates, were caught sneaking notes into the exam room or copying fellow trainees’ answers. The firm’s prestigious trainee scheme is among the most competitive in the world, with most successful candidates … Continue reading →

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Washington, D.C. — The founder of Salon.com just published a biography of one of the Cold War’s most influential figures, and it contains controversial allegations that tie the CIA to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Almost 60 years after Kennedy’s killing, questions continue to swirl over whether the shooter Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, or was supported by a conspiracy of allies that some believe had government ties. David Talbot’s new book, “The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government,” is renewing the debate with allegations about Dulles and his purported links to … Continue reading →

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There are good scientists and there are mad scientists. The good ones have invented the safety pin, central heating, and Italian coffee machines. The mad ones have invented smog, Roundup, and the military-industrial complex. The good ones tread with great care where God’s magnificent creation is concerned; the mad ones would cut down the Tree of Life to find out how many rings it has. The mad ones are also those who, at the cost of billions of taxpayers’ dollars, have invented a gigantic machine of unbelievable complexity and superhuman sophistication that produces nothing at all—not even a fart. It … Continue reading →

Often, there are hidden truths and old tales that get lost with each generation.  As such, there is an untold story about the United States that begins in the 1600s. Prior to English entrepreneur and Pennsylvania founder William Penn’s arrival to the New World, this continent was inhabited by various Indigenous Indian tribes.  Once the Swedes and the Dutch began settling in the area they bartered for land (and fought over it). After William Penn’s arrival the land was sectioned out to various hamlets.  The Indigenous tribes started to die off because of fighting or disease and most of them … Continue reading →

If you are afraid of heights you will probably want to look away now. Here are some of the most precarious or just plain scary bridges that face brave adventurers around the world. Those who suffer from vertigo may want to steer clear of the Millau Viaduct in France, which is the tallest bridge in the world. It has one mast that’s a dizzying 1,125 feet above the ground. One of the most harrowing suspension structures in the world is the Hussaini Hanging Bridge in Pakistan which features large, nail-biting gaps between tiny planks of wood. It is not the … Continue reading →

Good news, fans of sleeping in the nude: you now have an excuse to air yourself at night-time. According to a new study by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Maryland, and Stanford University, sleeping in boxer shorts or PJs could damage sperm production and harm the chances of having a baby. Tight boxers are the biggest offenders here – they increase the temperature of the testicles, which can cause the quality of a man’s sperm to decrease. Ditching them in favour of loose underwear during the day and nothing at night can bring about a 25pc … Continue reading →

It may not be a conscious decision, but a study has found we seek out partners who have a similar genetic ancestry to our own. Researchers studying children in Mexico and Puerto Rico discovered their parents tended to share similar genes, even though they weren’t related. In fact, the average mix was so alike in some cases, the couples were as genetically similar as third or fourth cousins. This is known as ‘assortative mating’. The research was led by Dr Noah Zaitlen from the University of California, San Francisco. His team specifically studied the parents of Mexican and Puerto Rican children … Continue reading →

What’s the opposite of disgruntled? Chances are you’re thinking the answer should rightly begruntled—but is that really a word you recognize? The problem here is that disgruntled, alongside the likes of uncouth, disheveled, distraught, inert, and intrepid, is an example of an unpaired word, namely one that looks like it should have an apparently straightforward opposite, but in practice really doesn’t. Words like these tend to come about either when a prefixed or suffixed form of a word is adopted into the language while its root is not, or when the inflected or affixed form of a word survives, while … Continue reading →

This week, a Mahan Air Boeing 747 travelling to Bandar Abbas in Iran from Tehran’s Mehrabad airport was forced to make an emergency landing after one of its engines fell off two-minutes into the flight. It is one of a series of high-profile emergency landings and crashes to have featured in the media recently, raising concerns among regular travellers about flight safety. So what really happens during an emergency on a plane? If a passenger was on that flight, what would the pilots and cabin crew be doing behind the scenes, what would the passengers be asked to do and … Continue reading →