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Numer borttagen bild från Failbooking:

Patrick avser här egentligen uppenbart Askungen (Cinderella), och i originalet rådde ingen tvekan om förhållandets struktur - ur tidigare inlägg:

that the king did not wake Talia from the sleep with a kiss, but raped her, and when she gave birth to two children, one sucked on her finger, drawing out the piece of flax that had put her to sleep, which woke her

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En mening jag haft svårt att smälta sedan jag läste den - från Wikipedia:

The original concepts gave Sonic fangs and put him in a band with a human girlfriend named Madonna.

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Från Barry Ritholz:

I love this joke/quote from David Einhorn: “What do you call a stock that’s down 90%? A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half.”

Eller på Gunnar Andrénska: "En aktie som gått upp tio procent":

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Från Nyheter24:

Marissa Miller Ännu en Victorias Secrets-ängel? 173 centimeter lång och 50 fräscha kilon får henne att gå stadigt på catwalken, på playan och på shoppingstråken. Marissas BMI ligger på 16,7.

Jag tror faktiskt inte att jag sett stadigt användas i sådana sammanhang sedan taglinen till The Toxic Avenger - "He was 98 pounds of solid nerd until he became The Toxic Avenger!"

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Från Failblog:

Det är helt enkelt märkligt okänt att det relativt ofta finns en symbol på instrumentpanelen som visar på vilken sida tanklocket sitter - från Boing Boing:

Pilen som pekar åt vänster på den vita pumpsymbolen visar alltså att tanklocket sitter på bilens vänstra sida.

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Numer borttagen bild från Señor Gif:

Señor Gif benämnde den enbart "Bizarre-looking Fish", men som varje Naturens under-plöjare ser så är det troligtvis en sillkung.

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Efterhandsdubbning at its finest:

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Och at its not so finest:

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Ur How I Met Your Mother-avsnittet Lucky Penny, från IMDB:

Barney Stinson: My legs don't work. I have ridden the subway twice from end to end. I've been where it turns around. Ted, you don't ever want to see where it turns around.

Och då How I Met Your Mother utspelar sig i New York så kan det vara av intresse att nämna att man definitivt ibland vill se var tunnelbanan vänder - från Fast Company Design:

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James Rolfes You Know What's Bullshit-serie är en smula ojämn, vänligt uttryckt, och avsnittet om förstärkare som inte går till 11 kändes en smula oinspirerat, återigen vänligt uttryckt, men IMDB:s påskägg på temat är desto bättre - från IMDB:

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Svullo och skattemyndigheten:

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Flikrensning

- Do vitamin supplements really do any good? - Slate
- Danska isbrottslingar - Hela Havet Stormar
- Ask Pablo: What Is The Impact Of All Those Unwanted Phone Books? - Treehugger
- Weekly World News [En Ding Ding Värld] on Google Books - Daily Mail
- Burning the library in slow motion: how copyright extension has banished millions of books to the scrapheap of history - Boing Boing
- Costs and benefits of alcohol - Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
- Worst Life Ever: The Story of Kazuyuki Fujita’s Skull - Seanbaby@Cracked
- Eating and drinking during labor: Let women decide - EurekAlert
- New Orleans cops use ancient "unnatural copulation" law to turn prostitutes into sex-offenders - Boing Boing
- Social TV Viewing Is Disappearing - Science Daily
- Physicists Tie Light in Knots - Science Daily
- Hard as nails: "a builder is admitted to hospital in great pain after a nail penetrated all the way through his boot. But it turned out that the pain was entirely psychological, as the nail had missed his foot by sliding between his toes." - Mind Hacks
- The myth of an ‘obesity tsunami’ - Spiked
- Let Sleeping Babies Lie - Chilly Temps Build Tough Nordic Tots - Treehugger
- How Bad is Animal Fat? - Seth's Blog
- More Crankiness About Government and Drinking - Killing Time
- Bird Spotted Just Twice in 139 Years Found Breeding in Northeastern Afghanistan - Treehugger
- Freshwater Stingrays Solve Problems with Tools - Treehugger
- "Suicides" at Guantanamo - Megan McArdle
- It’s not breast-milk that makes babies brainier. It’s clever mothers - Times
- Patents Being Used To Keep Starving Children From Getting Therapeutic Food Paste - Techdirt
- The Market Saved the Alligator from Extinction - Carpe Diem
- World Bank Calls for the Closure of Tiger Farms - Treehugger
- Man plans leap from stratosphere - 120,000 feet up - Yahoo News
- L.A. City Council extends restaurant smoking ban to outdoor cafes, effective next year - Los Angeles Times
- Intelligence in young children is not influenced by omega 3 fatty acid - Physorg
- Electrosensitives tortured by a radio tower that had been switched off for six weeks - Boing Boing
- $2.5k to $8k: Regulations Will Cost More Than Car - Carpe Diem
- Antioxidants aren't always good for you and can impair muscle function, study shows - EurekAlert
- Bättre förhållanden för bönder drev fram den agrara revolutionen - forskning.se
- 'Overweight' adults age 70 or older are less likely to die over a 10-year period - Physorg
- 50% women choose caesarean birth in China - People's Daily
- Career overtakes family, motherhood in defining urban Chinese women - People's Daily
- Do Government Regulations Actually Help Big Business? - Tim Carney@Youtube
- In pictures: Beautiful birds - BBC
- Tesco store bans grocery-shopping in pyjamas - Boing Boing
- Shanghai's Crackdown on... Pajamas - Boing Boing
- Australian censor board demands large-breasted porn-stars - Boing Boing
- Bribing Children to Sleep - Motherlode
- Researcher Who Sparked the Vaccine/Autism Scare "Acted Unethically" - Reason
- Sugar Tariffs Cost Americans $2.5 Billion in 2009 - Carpe Diem
- Annual Cost Per Sugar Farm Job Saved = $826,000 - Carpe Diem
- Doctors cut back hours when risk of malpractice suit rises, study shows - EurekAlert
- Jet Engine Wind Turbine is 4X More Efficient, Will Hit Market Soon (Video) - Treehugger
- Smoking bans and offsetting effects - Offsetting Behaviour
- 11 Things You Didn't Know About Pinball History - Popular Mechanics
- Behind the meme: Secrets of octopus intelligence - Boing Boing
- Game Changers: How Videogames Trained a Generation of Athletes - Wired
- Forests Are Growing Faster, Ecologists Discover; Climate Change Appears to Be Driving Accelerated Growth - Science Daily
- Injecting heroin with a doctor - Mind Hacks
- The Bipartisan Folly of Farm Subsidies - Reason
- Fantastic (Under-reported) News: Child Abuse WAY DOWN! - Free-Range Kids
- The Chess Master and the Computer - Garry Kasparov@NY Books
- From music to sports: Autonomy fosters passion among kids - EurekAlert
- Teens are most happy surfing the Net: Poll - People's Daily
- Amazing Iron Man MacBook Sticker - Gadget Lab
- 'Mumnesia' is a myth - Short Sharp Science
- Two-inch LEGO gun gets 4th-grader in trouble - MSNBC
- India forms new climate change body - Telegraph
- Queens girl Alexa Gonzalez hauled out of school in handcuffs after getting caught doodling on desk - NY Daily News
- Hannas krönika: Man ska visst skriva om självmord - Hanna Hellquist@DN
- Zero rupee note that Indians can slip to corrupt officials who demand bribes - Boing Boing
- A little innovation with great effect: the new Heinz ketchup packet! - Knowledge Problem
- Alexandra Johansson - utförsäkrad trebarnsmamma [sammanfattning i inlägg 1&3] - Flashback Forum
- Boredom shortens life expectancy, scientists find - news.com
- Addiction: There is no spoon. - underdogs bite upwards
- Butter leads to lower blood fats than olive oil - Physorg
- China's pollution will peak when GDP per capita reaches $3,000 - People's Daily
- New Invention Using Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods Could Unlock U.S. Oil Reserves Three Times Larger Than Saudi Arabia's - Business Insider
- The cutaneous rabbit illusion hops out of the body - Neuro Philosophy
- Food shortage worsens in N. Korea - North Korean Economy Watch
- Low IQ second-highest predictor of heart disease (after smoking) - Boing Boing
- Äntligen köttklister - Expressen ledare
- Whisky toothpaste - Boing Boing
- Motivations and Media and Merchandise Consumption in MMA - MMA Payout
- Girl, 6, Handcuffed, Committed Because Of Classroom Behavior - wpbf.com
- Are high speed elephants running or walking? - EurekAlert
- Health Department destroys thousands of dollars of local fruit - The Stew
- Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People - Science
- Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Possibly Triggered by Ocean Waves - Science Daily
- Airport body scanners violate Islamic law, Muslims say - freep.com

Flikrensning

- China's grain output to top 500 mln tonnes in 2009 - People's Daily

- Vatican awards self 'unique copyright' on Pope - The Register

- 21 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade - The Business Insider

- Enhanced sweet taste: This is your tongue on pot - EurekAlert

- Gråsälens comeback - historia med lyckligt slut? - Vetenskapsradion

- The Fascinating Airplane Graveyard of Mojave Desert - Entertainment Web

- Ten years of fear - From Y2K to the threat of a flu-induced End of Days, a variety of panics went global in the Noughties. - Nathalie Rothschild hos Spiked

- Top Ten Dinosaur and Fossil Finds: Most Viewed of 2009 - National Geographic

- Pong liberated women, says maker - BBC

- Fet mat orsakar inte övervikt - DN

- Government strips away your right to pee! - Classically Liberal

- Yo dawg, I heard you like TSA security restrictions, so I put some security restrictions on top of your security restrictions - Boing Boing

- Days of duty-free booze may be over - Daily Telegraph

- Just half of Britons now call themselves Christian after a ‘sharp decline’ in faith over past 25 years - Telegraph

- Amazon Sold More Digital Books Than Printed Books, And Other Shocking Electronics Sales Stats - Treehugger

- Texas Horse Dentists Feel the Bite Of State Regulatory Oversight - Wall Street Journal

- Happy 99th Birthday, Ronald Coase - Steve Landsburg

- Audit unearths huge graft - The National Audit Office (NAO) has found over 234 billion yuan ($34.5 billion) of public finances was misused in its annual audits of almost 100,000 government departments and State-owned enter-prises (SOEs), China's chief auditor said Monday. - People's Daily

- Demi Moore's lawyers threaten Boing Boing over photo analysis blog post - Boing Boing

- World Record Set for (Paper) Plane Flight - Treehugger

- 7 Weird and Wacky Endangered Birds - Treehugger

- Is the Airborne Fraction of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Increasing? - Science Daily

- Clever Nature: Class of 2009 - BBC

- The Skies Are as Friendly as Ever: 9/11, Al Qaeda Obscure Statistics on Airline Safety - FiveThirtyEight

- The Puzzling Paradox of Sign Language - It takes longer to sign words than to say them. So how is it possible to sign and speak at the same rate? - Technology Review

- Bacon and eggs 'could help mothers-to-be boost the intelligence of unborn child' - Telegraph

- U.S. Car Fleet Shrinks by Four Million in 2009 - Treehugger

- Sleeping Beauty Hooks Up With Herpes to Fight Brain Disease - Science Daily (kunde bara inte låta bli en sådan rubrik)

- North Korea bans large suitcases in fight against "grass-roots capitalism" - Fr33 Agents

- How to make your own prison wine - Brokelyn

- [Chinese] Road accidents drop by 10.1% in 2009 - People's Daily

- 100 things we didn't know last year - BBC Magazine Monitor

- N. Korean currency crackdown fuels inflation, food shortages - Washington Post

- John Stossel om Ayn Rand och Och världen skälvde - Youtube

Flikrensning

- US scepticism grows over manmade global warming theory - News.com

- Scholars bid [Chinese] government to abolish housing law - People's Daily

- Border Disruption Technology - Fr33 Agents

- The barf-worthy safety standards for school-lunch meat - Boing Boing (Så länge skolbarnen inte blir sjuka av maten håller jag inte med om att den ska vara "barf-worthy" av den anledningen. Det är dock intressant hur mycket kraftfullare konkurrens är än goda avsikter.)

- A Dubious Record in Mexico’s Drug War - Cato@Liberty

- Folkhälsoinstitutet vill stänga Internet - Johan Ingerö

- Pitch of Blue Whale Songs Is Declining Around the World, But This Could be a Good Thing - Treehugger

- 85.6% of Chinese people concerned about inflation in 2010 - People's Daily

- Shopkeeper fined...for not producing commercial rubbish - Echo News

- Boy, 12, suspended for 'crisp dealing' in school that banned junk food - Daily Mail

- In pictures: Disabled Tanzanian child taking first steps - BBC

- Barns ögonsjukdomar behandlas bättre - Vetenskapsradion

- Black Friday Found To Be 50 Times More Carbon Intensive Than Cyber Monday - Treehugger

- Cannabis spray found to help relieve cancer pain - BBC

- GMOs and the plants we eat: neither are “natural” - Code for life

- Wild and Weird New Species Discovered in 2009 (Slideshow) - Treehugger

- Uganda bans female genital mutilation - BBC

- Report: Tata Nano Hybrid on the Way - Good Clean Tech

- Rise and Fall in Dubai: An Austrian Perspective - Mises.org

- 25 Days in Jail for giving water to illegal immigrants - Don't Tase Me, Bro!

- YouTube video leads to Hollywood contract - BBC (Den fyra minuter långa filmen i fråga - Ataque de Pánico!, med en budget om 300 dollar - finns här.)

- Australian fliers will get their cutlery and knitting needles back - Boing Boing

- 25 Amazing 3-D Sidewalk Drawings - Entertainment Web

Flikrensning

- The Costs of Secret Identities - Ecocomics

- Too many people? No, too many Malthusians - Spiked

- Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out - Spiegel Online (de borde dock inte vara särskilt förvånade - jag nämnde tidigare om en rapport som har förklarat det med oceaniska strömmar)

- Hugo Chávez courts outrage with praise for Carlos, Mugabe and Amin - Guardian

- Allt fler svenskar håller vikten - DN (jag är dock långt från entydigt positiv till sådana nyheter, men det kommer jag förhoppningsvis återkomma till)

- Sanningen om bantnings-tv. - Linus Fremin

- Fetmaoperation håller dåligt i längden - Expressen

- Aero-tactile integration in speech perception - Nature (pdf) (handlar om att ljud uppfattas olika om man träffas av en vindpust då ljudet uttalas - se även McGurk-effekten på liknande tema)

- Illinois smoking ban: Some bars give smokers a sanctuary - Smokers pitch in extra cash to help bars pay fines - Chicago Tribune

- Global Study of Salmon Shows: 'Sustainable' Food Isn't So Sustainable - Science Daily

- New Figures on Cancer in Europe Show a Steady Decline in Mortality but Big Variations - Science Daily

- Is cannabis the answer to Booze Britain's problems? - Physorg

- Solar panel costs 'set to fall' - BBC

- I drink raw milk (sold illegally on the underground market) - Grist

- China’s GMO Rice, Corn Approval May Boost Food Supply - Bloomberg

- New research suggests porn is overly demonized - cnet

- Första djursjukdomen snart utrotad - Vetenskapsradion

- Mobile phones 'have not increased brain cancers' - BBC

- Birdfeeders Found to Cause Evolution of New Species - Treehugger

- Study confirms that cannabis is beneficial for multiple sclerosis - EurekAlert

- A window that washes itself? - Tel Aviv University's new nano-material may revolutionize solar panels and batteries too - EurekAlert

- Gallery: The Year's Most Amazing Scientific Images - Popular Science

Flikrensning

Får försöka rensa mer frekvent framöver:

- Chávez Discounts Accuracy of GDP - Wall Street Journal

- To Create Jobs, Voters Say Cut Taxes and Stop Spending - Rasmussen Reports

- The Top 10 Originally Disturbing Fairy Tale Classics - Storage & Disposal hos That Guy with the Glasses (mitt inlägg på samma tema här)

- Det var varmare på Antarktis förr - Vetenskapsradion

- Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation & Forest Degradation Overestimated by IPCC - Treehugger

- Energy reports 'a waste of time' - BBC

- Hilarious videos campaigning to hold British MPs to account for ripping off public with bogus expenses - Boing Boing

- Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year - Overall Winner - National History Museum

- First-time Internet users find boost in brain function after just 1 week - EurekAlert

- How much did the U.S. spend in 2007 to protect endangered species? - Scientific American (svar: "$1,537,283,091 toward conserving threatened and endangered species in 2007, plus another $126,086,999 in land purchases for habitat preservation")

- China encourages private aircraft ownership - People's Daily

- Your Flight Has Been Delayed--And It's Washington's Fault! - ReasonTV

- Science to 'stop age clock at 50' - BBC

- Glasbitar i mat - inget organiserat sabotage - Rebecca's Kitchen

- First light! Panels start producing power, but paperwork drags on - Solar at Home

- Date-rape drink spiking 'an urban legend' - Daily Telegraph

- Rot-Resistant Wheat Could Save Farmers Millions - Science Daily

- Fetmautvecklingen bland svenska 4-åringar tycks ha stannat av - Läkartidningen (.pdf) (Tidigare inlägg om den rapporten här.)

- Why are fat people abused? - BBC

- Child obesity 'is levelling off' - BBC

- Top 10 Most Outrageous Things Said By Environmentalists - Not Evil Just Wrong

- Use Of Cannabinoids Could Help Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Patients - Science Daily

- The 5 Most Popular Safety Laws (That Don't Work) - Cracked

- It's time to end the use of gay slurs in hockey - Justin Bourne (via Linus Fremin)

- Rainwater Is Safe To Drink, Australian Study Suggests - Science Daily

- U.S. sets preliminary penalties on oil pipes from China - People's Daily

- Sverige var blåsigare förr - Vetenskapsradion

- Boat Tail Reduces Truck Fuel Consumption By 7.5 Percent - Science Daily (Tidigare inlägg om bränsleförbrukning bland annat här, här och här.)

- Controversial New Climate Change Data: Is Earth's Capacity to Absorb CO2 Much Greater Than Expected? - Science Daily

- A Trillion Dollar Ad Campaign (PICS) - Entertainment Web

- 50 Years of Change ("If You Want To Be Popular... You Can't Afford To Be SKINNY!") - Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Blog

- TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes. - Boing Boing

- Trust Online: A World of Warcraft Anecdote - David Friedman

- Arbitrage, Comparative Advantage, and World of Warcraft - David Friedman

- Venezuela bans violent video games: a first-person guest essay - Boing Boing

- List makers take note: 10 technologies that made news in 2009 and warrant watching in 2010 - EurekAlert

- The 50 Best Inventions of 2009 - Time Magazine

- Women banned from wearing trousers in Paris - Daily Telegraph

- Do blind people hallucinate on LSD? - Mind Hacks

Flikrensning

- There's No Way to Enforce a Texting While Driving Ban - U.S. News

- Debate Follows Bills to Remove Clotheslines Bans - New York Times

- British parents urged to give children booze allowance - Independent

- Bans 'do not cut abortion rate' - BBC

- Be Overweight And Live Longer, German Study Suggests - Science Daily

Flikrensning

- What happened to global warming? - BBC

- Calorie Postings Don’t Change Habits, Study Finds - New York Times

- The myth of the smoking ban ‘miracle’ - Spiked

- Jag började cybersexa vid tolv och har ännu inte dött av det! - Hanna Fridén

- Royal Mail uses legal threats to shut down service that provided postcode lookups to charities and nonprofits - Boing Boing

- Odds Are, Stunning Coincidences Can Be Expected (skriven efter att samma siffror kommit två veckor i rad i ett bulgariskt lotteri - vilket borde börja gränsa till gudomlig inverkan i Roland Poirier Martinssons värld - med intressant diagram över mycket de olika numren spelats) - Wall Street Journal

- Reported rapes hit 20-year low - USA Today

- Food fight waged over refrigeration of Asian noodles - Los Angeles Times

- Los Angeles fast-food restaurant ban unlikely to cut obesity, study finds - Physorg

- Lawyers question rigid weapons law (dansk strikt knivlag resulterar i att hantverkare och fiskare straffas) - jp.dk

Flikrensning

- Birth Defect Study Casts Doubt on Phthalate Fears - Scientific American

- Children taking part in a study to measure how much exercise they do fooled researchers by attaching their pedometers to their pet dogs. - BBC

- The McFarthest Place: 145 Mi to the Nearest Big Mac - Strange Maps (lite på samma tema, även om jag ogillar vinklingen - Wal-Marts utbredning i USA, 1962-2007)

- "Both in terms of the number of accidents and the blood alcohol of the drivers in those accidents, the research consistently showed that zero tolerance laws had no effect," Grant said. - EurekAlert

Flikrensning

- Bilägare slipper klistermärken - DI

- John Marcotte: Yes. Filed the paperwork on September 1. It's the "2010 California Marriage Protection Act." I am trying to ban divorce in the state of California. - Cockeyed.com

- Amazon Deforestation Drops 46% In One Year - Treehugger

- All tibia [skenben] fractures associated with playing on a slide were sustained while going down the slide on the lap of an adult or older sibling. The age range of patients who sustained a tibia fracture while going down a slide was 14 months to 32 months. - Physorg

- The Airport For Nobody - John Stossel

- Cities Less Dangerous Than Rural Regions, Traffic Accident Study Shows - ScienceDaily

Och lite sång och dans:

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Flikrensning

- A Florida man born without arms says a Tampa bank would not let him cash a check because he couldn't provide a thumbprint. - MSNBC

- The bottom line is that GMail is too big to fail. That's right. If we had a massive problem with it, and somehow (impossibly) google was in financial dire straights; we'd be forced to bail out google and protect GMail at all costs. - Science Policy Development

- Looking at common family types, this calculation finds that the [direct] estimated average payment for public health care insurance [in Canada] in 2008 was:

- $9,572 [~63 000 kronor] for the average 2 adult family
- $9,855 [~65 000 kronor] for the average 2 adult and 1 child family
- $10,191 [~67 000 kronor] for the average 2 adult and 2 child family
- $3,484 [~23 000 kronor] for the average unattached (single) individual - Vancouver Sun

- Move over, Twinkies: Deep-fried butter is here - MSNBC

Flikrensning igen

The Cost of Doing Something - Reason

Världens äldste nu levande man om vad som lett till att han lyckats bli drygt 113 år gammal: "Cigarettes, whisky, and wild, wild women" - The Independent

Outrage of the Week: Mom Arrested for Letting Kids Go to the Mall - Free Range Kids

Tighter Regulations Setting Battery Recycling Back a Decade, Sending Batteries Back to Landfills - Treehugger

Chinese E-Cigs Gain Ground Amid Safety Concerns - ABC News

Disease prevention often costs more than it saves - Physorg

Police crackdowns may encourage drug use - New Scientist

Leif GW Persson: "Cannabis är olämplig om man ska ägna sig åt brott. Man vill helst bara sätta sig i ett hörn och lyssna på musik" - Aftonbladet

Flikrensning

Jag behöver definitivt rensa upp i webbläsaren:

- David Kessler, former head of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA): "The real problem is we have created a world where food is always available and where that food is designed to make you want to eat more of it. For millions of people, modern food is simply impossible to resist." - Times

- The report says a computer modeling study using National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registries estimated that more than one in four cancers detected in whites (29 percent) and nearly half of cancers detected in blacks (44 percent) were overdiagnosed cancers. A similar model using data from Europe estimated a 50 percent overdiagnosis rate. The authors say patients who are diagnosed with clinically insignificant tumors are subject to unnecessary diagnostic tests and unneeded treatment and suffer psychosocial harms. They are also labeled "a cancer patient," which can have negative economic consequences. Also, say the authors, overdiagnosis significantly affects 5-year survival statistics, making them uninformative in demonstrating progress in cancer control. - Physorg

- Fantastisk illusion - via Richard Wiseman

- [Four reproductive health researchers] cite evidence indicating withdrawal is almost as reliable as condoms over the course of a year. And while interrupting intercourse before ejaculation has obvious drawbacks, it's a reasonable strategy for monogamous couples who aren't worried about venereal diseases and have difficulty with other methods. - Physorg

- Data from a trial of more than 800 older people initially showed that those who eat plenty of oily fish seem to have better cognitive function.

But factors such as education and mood explained most of the link. - BBC

- Residents of Toledo, Ohio, are complaining that they received $25 tickets for parking their vehicles in their own driveways. - MSNBC

- How fast can evolution take place? In just a few years, according to a new study on guppies led by UC Riverside's Swanne Gordon, a graduate student in biology. - EurekAlert

- China's Ministry of Culture is to conduct a campaign against lip-synching and false musical instrument performance across the country.

It will also issue new regulations and punishment provisions to prevent lip-synching in commercial performance, cracking down on lip-synching that has damaged the credibility of the performing market and become increasingly serious. - People's Daily

- Södra Afrikas största regnskog hittad via Google Earth - BBC

- "Tank Man" från ny vinkel - Lens

- Tvisten om en trädkojas vara eller icke vara har nu klättrat enda upp i Kammarrätten. Detta trots att varken familjen som byggde den – eller grannen som klagade på den – bor kvar. - Värmlands Folkblad

- It’s Now Legal to Catch a Raindrop in Colorado - New York Times