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The Disease of Being Busy

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The Disease of Being Busy The students who feel they have the right to cheat Big Data and the Underground Railroad Women Having A Terrible Time At Parties In Western Art History Clever billboard ads 72 Days, Six Hours, and 11 Minutes: How a Pioneering Journalist Won a Race Around the World in 1889 ‘I carried his name on my body for nine years’: the tattooed trafficking survivors reclaiming their past How the Border Patrol became America’s most out-of-control law enforcement agency. Dear Parent: About THAT kid… Authorities defend decision to manually remove leaves from trees outside House of Commons Manning Up: How 'Mantiques' Make It Cool for Average Joes to Shop and Decorate Cache of Historic Newspapers Unveils the Mysteries of Old New Orleans

The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872

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Where bribery works, charted Why We Gossip: It’s Really All About Ourselves Watch Alan Eustace's Record Setting Jump How one person singlehandedly created a forest, saved an island, and changed the world. Russian clocks go back for last time Sex, drugs and the EU budget Living Rock – Massive Monuments Carved In Situ Woodkopf – The Wacky Czech Sport You’ve Probably Never Heard of Before Here's How Long Each Piece Is Likely to Survive In A Game Of Chess The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872 The secret history of invisible ink ( via ) This Woman Sees 100 Times More Colors Than The Average Person

The Dutch boy mopping up a sea of plastic

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How One Man Refused to Spy on Fellow Muslims for the FBI—and Then Lost Everything These photos capture Guantanamo's double life as a tropical prison and an all-American oasis in Cuba The Other Side of the River Alaska’s outdated maps make flying a peril, but a high-tech fix is slowly gaining ground How the Filthy Rich Live in Rising Asia The Long Captivity of Michael Scott Moore When the Petrodollars Run Out Eye of the Storm: Ferguson Burger Bar & More The Dutch boy mopping up a sea of plastic Scandalous tales from the British embassy in Paris New Scrabble Dictionary Disrepects The Game Graphene-like substance generates electricity when stretched These Are The Real Stories Behind Some Of The Most Beautiful Colors In Art

Where Children Sleep

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Where Children Sleep Sobering. Creepy Clowns Frighten Central California, Draw Police The Scablands: A scarred landscape as strange as fiction Snowboarding Was Almost Called 'Snurfing' Stairs to Nowhere ( via ) Light Pillar – Nature’s Beautiful Special Effect Fascinating Maps: Origins of Important Historical Figures in Europe Super-Colorful Rivers North Bend Aerial Ferry The Dirtiest Rivers In The World

Living With Spoilers - Netflix's answer

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The Great Authorial Hook-Up Chart There Are Far More People Named Hitler Than You'd Think Why it matters if stores smell delicious How Two Men Unlocked Modern Encryption Living With Spoilers - Netflix's answer Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps The psychology of torture Efficient, useful blue-light LED draws Nobel Prize in physics The Only State-By-State Guide To America's Most Common Roadkill Descendants Of Women Who Appeared As Aunt Jemima Suing For $2B, Share Of Brand’s Revenue Americas Shame: The Injustice of Mandatory Minimums How to Avoid Accidentally Buying a Stolen Phone

Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

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Viking 'ring fortress' discovered in Denmark China's Island Factory Louisiana Loses Its Boot Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids The Perils of Standing While Hispanic in the Bronx One of the most amazing feats in chess history just happened, and no one noticed. In Search of Life’s Smoking Gun The MLS Labor Battle Is Not Going to Be Pretty Atlas Mugged: How a Libertarian Paradise in Chile Fell Apart Qatar will not host World Cup: FIFA official iPod Mastermind Tony Fadell On The Death Of The iPod: "You Can't Get Too Nostalgic" It May Be 'Perfectly Normal', But It's Also Frequently Banned A Refutation of The Elements of Typographic Style 'World Cup will not take place in Qatar' says Germany FIFA member Theo Zwanziger

Rio’s Real-Life Slumdog Millionaires

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Literally Unbelievable . Stories from The Onion as interpreted by Facebook. The forgotten history of cricket in the USA How a Chinese National Gained Access to Arizona’s Terror Center Southern China's diverse karst landscape of mountains and caves Rio’s Real-Life Slumdog Millionaires Beneath southern China’s cone-shaped peaks, arches, and spires lie some of the largest caverns in the world Why Is Tokyo So Cute? Why we’re living in the golden age of investigative journalism The Secret Lives of America’s Migrant Farmers

Why Names Are So Easy to Forget

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The Tobacco Museum of Prilep ( via ) Medieval Manuscripts Depict A Terrifying Tale Of The Walking Dead The Extraordinary Evolution of Scissors What I Learned After Taking a Homeless Mother Grocery Shopping The end of neighbours Who Was Ernest Hemingway? Here's how much lighting can change the way someone's face looks The US says it finally busted the gang behind the most convincing counterfeit dollars in the world A Computer Has Finally Proven the Answer to a 400-Year-Old Math Problem Why Names Are So Easy to Forget ( via )

Inside the 'Terror Tunnels' of Gaza

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There's a New Material That's So Black You Can't See It Students Can Pay To Have Their Graduation Pictures Photoshopped To Make Them Look Thinner Shanxi vacationers cool off by turning swimming pool into human cesspool Who are Hamas’s friends these days? It’s more complicated than you might think. The Lives Behind Times Square Cartoon Characters Blatter: 'Football is very macho. It's difficult to accept women in governance' . That man is a creep. Sooner he has gone the better... Kingship and Sacrifice . This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies. Mysterious Craters Are Just the Beginning of Arctic Surprises New leaker disclosing U.S. secrets, government concludes Toledo: The Town Too Tough for Toxic Water Inside the 'Terror Tunnels' of Gaza The Most Socially Awkward Moment Of The World Cup China imposes intrusive rules on Uighurs in Xinjiang A mystery oil tanker is anchored...

Things Cut in Half

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Mexico tried giving poor people cash instead of food. It worked. Things Cut in Half Icelandic girls can't be called Harriet, government tells family The Christian Reformed Church Still Won’t Stand Up For Science Tarot Mythology: The Surprising Origins of the World's Most Misunderstood Cards Fascinating graphics show who owns all the major brands in the world Black people were denied vanilla ice cream in the Jim Crow south – except on Independence Day A Night Out with the Foreign Tourist Police in Thailand's Seediest City Ireland is the "goodest" of all countries (and the US might be 21st) 2014 FIFA World Cup: From the Round of 16 to the Winner How football is played in Greenland How fasting during Ramadan will affect World Cup players The Best GIFs and Memes From the World Cup So Far Chaotic, Gritty Videos of Brazil’s Violent World Cup Protests Here’s Why People Keep Dying In China Because Of The World Cup How the World Cup Is Damaging Brazil