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For a photo gallery in Burn Magazine, NY-based Indian photographer Manjari Sharma invited people into come to her apartment, take a shower, and let her photograph them. Link [via @tonymcnicol]

I went to church with a friend this past Sunday. I'm not religious, but I find it enjoyable to occasionally sit in on religious rituals to learn about different people… Read the rest of the article: Am I wicked because I don't go to church?

A store clerk is on trial right now for pointing a price scanner to a grumpy 12-year old girl's forehead. The girl's family claims the scan burned her, causing PTSD… Read the rest of the article: Family of grumpy girl claims store clerk injured her by scanning her head

Japanese artist Koshi Kawachi uses old manga collections to plant and grow vegetables. [via Pink Tentacle]

Berkeley math professor Edward Frenkel collaborated with a French filmmaker to create an erotic short film called Rites d'Amour et de Maths; in it, a doomed mathematician discovers the formula… Read the rest of the article: Mathematician makes Mishima-inspired erotic film

Wired.com has a fun gallery of robotic spiders and critters. This one, created by Stanford mechanical engineer Sangbae Kim, was based on a cockroach. It has an aluminum chassis, an… Read the rest of the article: Wired's robotic spider gallery

In a recent survey conducted in Aichi Prefecture in Japan, 70% of teenage prostitutes said (in Japanese) they didn't want to end up in family lives like their parents. via… Read the rest of the article: Teenage prostitutes don't want to end up like their parents

A teenager in Iowa made her prom dress — and a matching vest for her date — out of blue gum wrappers. It's actually kind of pretty!

[Cubo 3 via Yanko Design]

This desk, designed by Roderick Vos of the Netherlands, is made to look like an Art Deco skyscraper. It's a bit much for my liking, but fun to look at.… Read the rest of the article: Art deco skyscraper desk

Strange Maps points us to an interesting collection of 577 "map backs" published by pulp magazine company Dell Publishing — illustrations that pinpoint exactly where incidents happened in famous detective… Read the rest of the article: Maps on the back of detective novels

Neatorama calls this clutch eco-conscious and fashionably stylish, but I disagree. While recycling a keyboard may be a good idea, I wouldn't be caught dead enjoying a night on the… Read the rest of the article: Bag made out of a keyboard

Researchers at the University of South Carolina have figured out how to combine the carbon component of cotton with boron to create a cotton t-shirt with the toughness of body… Read the rest of the article: USC scientists figure out how to turn t-shirts into body armor

A Thai man named Kamjai Kong Thavorn spent an extra three years in a Jakarta prison because of a clerical error; the person who typed in his incarceration year put… Read the rest of the article: Thai man spends extra years in Jakarta prison because of a typo

In another strange case of misguided anger, a meat supplier in Germany started grabbing steaks off of customers' plates because the restaurant couldn't pay him cash up front. The police… Read the rest of the article: Angry meat supplier steals steaks from people's plates

A new study published in Nature has found that Japanese people have a special bacteria in their guts that allows us to digest seaweed: The new study, published in Nature,… Read the rest of the article: Japanese people have special seaweed-digesting bacteria in their guts

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Toshio Yamamoto's earliest memory of ramen goes back to when he was five years old. He was slurping down a bowl of instant noodles at home with his parents when… Read the rest of the article: Confessions of a hardcore instant ramen lover

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