Court: Man Burned at Burning Man Assumed Risk of Being Burned by Burning Man. [Via]

The Surreal Appeal of the Falkirk Wheel. [Via]

Machu Picchu Post. [Via]

Monkey urinates on Zambian president.

Thomas Friedman Clogged My Toilet.

A 2,500-year-old bird's nest has been discovered on a cliff in Greenland. The nesting site is still continually used by gyrfalcons, the world's largest species of falcon, and is the oldest raptor nest ever recorded.

1-click Award.

Indian sex workers learn karate. "Prostitutes in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have begun taking karate lessons to protect themselves from violent customers and pimps." [Via]

Apes Laugh, Tickle Study Finds.

Chimp-Made Toolkit Most Complex Ever Found.

Remarkable Religious Structures Reclaimed by Nature. Amazing Buildings Swallowed by the Desert.

Cool Guys Don't Look At Explosions.

Are Men Smarter than Women?

Space Zen: Will Humans' Brains Change During Travel in Outer Space?

'Hidden photons' to send secret emails through Earth. [Via]

Newly Discovered Iron-breathing Species Have Lived In Cold Isolation For Millions Of Years. "A reservoir of briny liquid buried deep beneath an Antarctic glacier supports hardy microbes that have lived in isolation for millions of years, researchers report April 17 in the journal Science." [Via]

The Scorpion King's ancient remedy: Bitter herbs and sweet wine. [Via]

Interview Fail. [Via]

The building blocks of life may be more than merely common in the cosmos. Humans and aliens could share a common genetic architecture.

Confessions of a Man Who Almost Went Postal. "When a gunman killed 13 in Binghamton, N.Y., last week, reactions ranged from sorrow to fear, anger, and—self-recognition? Mansfield Frazier explains the time, 40 years ago, when he nearly went postal."