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Recent increases in HPV-positive throat cancers could be an aftershock of changes in sexual behaviour that began decades ago. A landmark 1994 study of sexual behaviour showed that oral sex had become commonplace only in the generations born in the 1950s or later. Fewer than 60 per cent of people born in the 1930s were [...]

How whiz kids reconstruct the blasted faces of soldiers who had the extreme luck of an Iraq assignment.

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{Intriguing: Bobby Neels’ “jarring” photographs}

Constant smiling can be bad for your health if you’re forced to do it as part of your job, for example as a flight attendant or shop assistant, a German psychologist has warned.
The stress caused by having to flash one’s teeth at customers can lead to depression, high blood pressure and cardiovascular problems, Professor Dieter [...]

Who ever thought synesthesia is this fun:
When Ingrid Carey says she feels colors, she does not mean she sees red, or feels blue, or is green with envy. She really does feel them.
She can also taste them, and hear them, and smell them.
The 20-year-old junior at the University of Maine has synesthesia, a rare neurological [...]

But here’s the most important thing the drug does: it makes you shit oil. Worse, it makes you shit your pants. With oil. This is not the ravings of some fringe conspiracy group, this is what the company tells you itself on its website. Buy our drug if you want to lose weight. Oh, by [...]

Jeff Scholtz, one of the first patients in the world to have his appendix removed through his mouth. Next time, they’ll circumcise penises that way. Next time.
{Mad: World’s worst invention}

An inspiring collection of mugshots of folks whose faces were made much more sexually attractive by the wonder drug we all endearingly call “meth.”
{Filthy: Beware of the pornographer bearing the gift of “special facial cream}

By mistake, he grabbed the wrong resistor from a box and plugged it into the circuit he was making. The circuit pulsed for 1.8 milliseconds and then stopped for 1 second and then repeated. Greatbatch recognized the lub-dub rhythm.
“I stared at the thing in disbelief,” he said. This was exactly what was needed to drive [...]