• Where’s my fur coat? Hairless bear in Germany is the saddest thing you’ll see today.
• “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” opens at the California Museum of Science. On display is a giant Darth Vader mask made of old electronics. All lesser nerds tremble in its presence.
• I did what last night? Woman has a terrible case of the morning afters—transient global amnesia to be exact—that can be triggered by sex.
• Will learning foreign languages be irrelevant one day? Space-age glasses that translate foreign languages are under development.
• If the hairless bear weirded you out, then put a smile on your face with these cute little narcoleptic meerkats that fall asleep while standing up.
• Sure, haunted houses can be scary, but for a real fright, turn to scientists.
• Sex offenders really aren’t anything to fear on Halloween, according to new research.
• Take a look at some of the spookiest species discovered this year.
• No costume idea? How about the iguyPhone.
• And in the odd event that teenagers don’t smash your pumpkin, do it your self…with a catapult.
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• Hit the red-light district on the cheap: Berlin brothels are offering discounts to “green” customers that arrive on bike.
• New robotic prosthetic hand lets users regain their sense of touch.
• Do space flights make people crazy? The European Space Agency is looking for a few volunteers to spend 520 days in total isolation to study space travel’s psychological effects.
• Going green? Not if you own a pet. A new book argues that owning a dog has the same carbon footprint as driving 6,000 miles a year in a Land Rover.
• Mix & match brains: Scientists try to create a bird chimera to study the evolution of birdsong.
• Waste not, want not: Stockholm burns culled bunnies for heating fuel.
• Helicopters search for radioactive rabbit poop near the Hanford nuclear reservation. Workers to begin removing the poop soon, which might be the worst job ever.
• Mathematician predicts an ESPN fantasy—a Dodgers-Yanks World Series. FOX Sports also has its fingers crossed.
• Doctors enjoy the five-fingered discount by pocking watches, severed hands from hospitals.
• Think technology is invasive now? A new camera is under development that could capture your entire life.
• Giant blobs of mucus are invading the oceans. Yes, you read that right—giant blobs of mucus. Movie version coming soon.
• Hey, Obama won the Nobal Peace Prize! And it’s taken over Twitter!
• Forget polygraphs: Art projects are the new lie detector tests.
• New spectrometer-laden scalpel can actually sniff out tumors as it cuts.
• And now, for something completely different: Miami has the hottest and least intelligent people in the nation, according to a completely opinion-based unscientific survey done by Travel & Leisure.
• ZOMG! U.K. court tweets its ruling against a Twitter impostor.
• Nerds rejoice as “time-telescope” is unveiled, possibly changing the way data is shared on the interwebs.
• Want some light? Cut your finger: New vampire lamp runs on human blood.
• Big brother satellites can spot illegal toxic waste from space.
• Kids that pig out on candy are more likely to be violent adults, says a new correlative study that has enraged sweet tooths everywhere.
• The “iFart” v. “Pull My Finger” legal battle comes to a close. The solution? Release a new app, “Clear the Air.”
• He’s ba-ack: Kirk Cameron defends his nutbag anti-evolution claims, and proposed vandalism.
• How Wal-Mart gift cards are being used to battle STDs.
• Can Xbox 360 fight heart disease?
• Indonesian woman gives birth to a 19-pound baby. As in, 19 pounds AT BIRTH.
• The Huffington Post launches No Impact Challenge: Can you make no environmental impact for a week?
• One market that has boomed in the recession: marijuana growing.
• Think you can hide in modern society? Good luck.
• Digitizing patient medical records? YES PLEASE!
• Isabella Rossellini’s legendary bug porn, profiled in depth.
• Want to make more money? Try being nice to other people (seriously).
• Happy 25th birthday, DNA fingerprinting! Now change.
• And finally, 18 awesome animated mad scientists (not that we’re supporting stereotypes that all scientists are crazy…just the animated ones).
• It’s arachna-Bowie! A rare, hairy, and yellow spider has been named after the master of Ziggy Stardust himself. It’s new title: Heteropoda davidbowie.
• Today’s flabbergast: If Fruit Loops are a healthy food, our derriere is a color television set.
• Swimmers of Amity Island, beware—great white sharks have been tagged up in New England (hear that, Robert Shaw?).
• It was only a matter of time: Porn hits Twitter.
• Meanwhile, Boulder, CO is being taken over by ladybugs.
• Bangladeshi newspapers get punked, bigtime (and for once, it wasn’t even deliberate).
•Worst excuse ever for underage sex? Or best?
• Do science raps ever get old? The answer: no. Maybe this one about the swine flu will, er, go viral.
• Sure, some people are more vertically challenged than others, but height actually varies very little among humans, compared to other species… and scientists still aren’t sure why.
• Is global warming forestalling an ice age?
• A hair-brained idea? Gel does wonders for your coif, and now it may be able to fix your brain, too.
• Do you sue Yahoo? This woman tried to but was unsuccessful; she didn’t like the links that a search of her own name brought up.
• Bottoms up! An unsuspecting man found a decaying frog inside his can of soda. No word yet on whether the animal croaked before or after it somehow slipped into the beverage…or what stage of drinking the soda the dude was in when he discovered the critter.
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