WebUrbanist has a collection of vintage ads that remind me how far we women have come since the days when it was apparently okay to liken a woman to a… Read the rest of the article: Vintage ads depicting abused and domesticated women

RISD industrial design student Mike Claire has posted instructions on how to make these tasty and interesting augmented reality vanilla cookies on his web site.

48 Hour Magazine, the project I took part in earlier this month in which a team of Bay Area journalists and designers created a print magazine in two days, received… Read the rest of the article: 48 Hour Magazine gets cease and desist letter from CBS

Rima Fakih became the first Arab-American Miss USA on Sunday, which is awesome. Less awesome: the Miss Universe people are apparently investigating photos from a Michigan radio station of the… Read the rest of the article: Rima Fakih, first Arab Miss USA, may be in trouble for pole dancing photos

Meetings can be a huge waste of time. To quantify just how much, you can use TIM (Time is Money), a simple gadget that calculates how much money is wasted… Read the rest of the article: Clock calculates wasted time at meetings

A rare occurrence of a phone company cutting a customer a serious break: Verizon customer Bob St. Germain was forgiven an $18K phone bill his son racked up in 2006… Read the rest of the article: Verizon dismisses $18K phone bill

A joint report published by the UNDP and the Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health revealed that 90% of gay men in Asia can't get HIV/AIDS support even if… Read the rest of the article: Gay men in Asia Pacific are denied HIV/AIDS care

An MIT aeronautics team revealed this design for a new generation of airplanes that would be quieter and up to 70% more fuel-efficient than the ones we fly in now.… Read the rest of the article: MIT reveals designs for future airplanes

Gizmodo has posted a video this morning that takes us through the process of pooping in space. Alignment is very important, apparently. And the hole is much smaller. How do… Read the rest of the article: How to poo in space

A Long Island animal shelter is asking all Viagra prescribers to donate some of their unused pills to a six-year old female pit bull, whose survival is at stake: Six-year-old… Read the rest of the article: This dog needs Viagra to survive

A nun at the St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix was excommunicated for approving an abortion on a woman who may have otherwise died.

Coroflot via Neatorama

How many on this list of unusual words have you heard of? Can you use any of them in a sentence today?

The groom is a robotics professor. The bride is an employee at Sanrio's humanoid robot division, Kokoro. To them it wasn't that strange, then, to have a wide-eyed humanoid robot… Read the rest of the article: Humanoid robot officiates human wedding

Good has this map showing the most prescribed psychiatric drugs in America.

Stuff you can't have via NotCot

What a great way to store and display fruits in the kitchen! These were created for Milan design week by Japanese designer Masakazu Hori. Designer's page via Spoon and Tamago

What happens when you put an octopus and a shark in the same aquarium tank?

The Pew Research Center has some new statistics on millennials — people who are currently aged 18-29 in America. They are less white, more socially networked, more likely to be… Read the rest of the article: Statistics on the millennial generation

naika_tei is a Twitter user and anime song DJ in Tokyo. Last week, he found himself stranded in the third floor toilet of an electronics store in Akihabara with a… Read the rest of the article: Desperate man in electronics store toilet tweets for paper