Superstitions ascribe supernatural origins to things that humans don’t understand, and they occur across the world. Early humans had a lot that they didn’t understand, but modern people are much more enlightened. Superstitions about bad luck feel like the kind of things we tell gullible children, so why do I still see people knocking on [...]
June 30, 2010
An Austrian university is on the hunt for girls who recoil at the sight of spiders for research into how fear affects the processes of the brain. “The researchers are looking for girls aged between 8-13 years who are very fearful of spiders and/or who feel sick at the sight of them,” the University of [...]
June 30, 2010
Criticized for years for fighting crime in effectively a one-piece swimsuit — often considered either sexist or simply impractical — the DC Comics icon has a new costume as of this week’s Wonder Woman #600, and it’s one considerably less revealing, complete with long pants and a jacket. Signature elements such as the character’s bracelets, tiara and magic [...]
June 26, 2010
The summer’s blockbuster films keep coming every weekend, assailing us with men of iron, ogres, toy cowboys and Cheshire cats. But somecinephiles are already looking ahead to next summer, especially with the recent release of the very short trailer for “The Smurfs.” Those famous blue cartoon characters (and their memorable theme song) sparked a thought: What the smurf is a [...]
June 23, 2010
With divorce on the rise in Japan, some couples are choosing to celebrate the end of an unhappy marriage by saying “I do” for a final time at a divorce ceremony before friends and family. Divorce ceremonies were pioneered about a year ago by a former salesman, Hiroki Terai, who set up a “divorce mansion” in [...]
June 21, 2010
In a piece of cutting political commentary, a group of artists have protested about heightened security in the Russian city of St. Petersburg by drawing a giant 220ft-long penis on a drawbridge. The massive penis was created by the radical art collective Voina, or War, who painted the organ on the bridge to highlight the [...]
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