MONSTER PORN: Amazon Cracks Down On America’s Latest Sex Fantasy. [Via]

NSFW--This is not yer grandma's Christmas tree . Unless grandma was really kinky

Unwrap all the presents! Christmas is coming with presents and eggnog, turkey and stuffing, and lots and lots of bananas. But not Cthurkey, PLEASE!

The amplituhedron stands as if in hyper space-time, it is said. Quark field theory predictions can be driven now by such a higher level “jewel.” As a pragmatic geometry its shape solves problems which used to flummox supercomputers. Predictive formulas have been simplified by using such geometries. But other pictures exist for it... more inside

Why Life Does Not Really Exist.

Hope for blindsighted people. Blindsightedness uses subliminal data processing, a step or two up from the dark first image shown in this example of a new technology which could help such a crippled eye... more inside

Bees sense sickness on human breath. I've heard before that sensitive people sense when someone is sick, but bees are probably more objective. The smell of garlic? No problem. Cancer? Check. Diabetes? Check. (Their apocrine glands are known to contain pheromones that retain information about a person's health that bee antennae can identify.) But if they don't like people to be sick, what then? more inside

(and now you can say you've seen everything on CONAN)
Every "season", Conan O'Brien has a "supercut" made to celebrate surviving another year on Basic Cable. This time, for Season 3, he let deranged British animator Cyriak work on it... more inside

Welcome to Dinovember: A month-long imagination invasion.

Lindsey Carr's aristocratic monkey paintings.

Surreal Photo Manipulations by Caras Ionut.

A Prayer For The Chronologically Enhanced Ya gotta stay sharp. It's either your mind, your hide or your wallet that goes. It's time to declare a Manifesto for the Chronologically Enhanced. more inside

Princeton University poll: Hitler is the greatest living person. From a poll held in 1939: Einstein came in second and Chamberlain in third.

I am shocked, shocked I say to hear that that well known conservative writer Edmund Burke was all too happy to have his old age comfortably provided for by the UK Government while writing against it doing so for farm labourers.

Monkeys 'take turns in conversation' Marmoset monkeys take it in turns to "talk" in a pattern very similar to human conversation, according to scientists.

The DSM-5 reviewed as a work of dystopian fiction. "Something has gone terribly wrong in the world; we are living the wrong life, a life without any real fulfillment. The newly published DSM-5 is a classic dsytopian novel in this mold."

Curious George<b>:</b> Remember the joy of socks? We loved our socks. We even posted about them incessantly. We worried about them. Petebest taught us sock sorting, and PigAlien gave us sockherding. more inside

No qualms about it , big money talks, natural beauty walks - or runs rather. With high levels of radioactive radium from fracking waste water imported into Pennsylvania from out of state. Inadequately treated and summarily dumped into a beautiful, I say holy, creek now soaked through with deadly poisons. Where will it all end? The EPA cares not. more inside

State Department funded anonymity portal TOR can not even be hacked by the NSA... Other than transactions with Alcoholics Anonymous, or sending sensitive medical info, I'm not sure who needs this. (I think all of the State Department's secrets have already been outed.) more inside

Because why not? After many stalled attempts at rewriting the Mofi website from scratch, we have a test Mofi for your perusal! It uses the current MoFi database and has all past posts and comments, but from this point stores posts separately, so you can play around with it as much as you want. Please note any errors, bugs, and other issues. Any features you see lacking, say so in a comment. This is a very basic version right now and other features will come over time (e.g. A "bananas"/I like this button). more inside