How Chris McCandless (of Into the Wild fame) actually died. (The New Yorker)
The total diet replacement Soylent continues its interesting climb to prominence. (Wired)
A National Geographic photographer's experience with leopard seals. (Imgur)
A large percentage of young people in Japan aren't interested in sex. (The Guardian) An interesting take on why this is happening. (reddit/r/bestof)
Sleep flushes away proteins that cause Alzheimer's. (Washington Post)
Target stops asking potential hires if they're ever been convicted of a felony. (New York Times)
New home sizes in square feet from around the world. There are certainly confounding variables such as percentage of the population that lives in apartments, number of people inhabiting home, etc., but it's none the less interesting to see the great variance in something that we typically see as a norm. (Source)
Werner Herzog on the Colbert Report:
I want the audience with me in wild fantasies. In something that illuminates them. You see, if I were only fact based, you see the book of books in literature then would be the Manhattan phone directory. 4 million entries, everything correct, but it dusts out of my ears and I do not know; do they dream at night? Does Mr. Jonathan Smith cry in his pillow at night? We do not know anything when we check all the correct entries in the phone directory. I am not this kind of a film maker.To which Colbert says "Sir, if I may? I want to party with you, cowboy."
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