First, we have an interesting talk of Udo Vetter, the guy writing “the law blog”. Here he gives advise on how to deal with a house seach by the police.
The ground rule: Do NOT talk. At all!!!

Second, here is a talk of a Virgina law school professor and former criminal defense attorney, proving to [...]

“In a study of 23 non-football athletes who each kicked 10 field goals, researchers found that players’ performance directly affected their perception of the size of the goal: After a series of missed kicks, athletes perceived the post to be taller and more narrow than before, while successful kicks made the post appear larger-than-life [...]
‘In [...]

Es sei beschämend, wie wenig Tapferkeit wert sei und zeige, «dass es sich nicht lohnt, sich in Afghanistan tot schießen zu lassen.
„Das Satire-Magazin «Titanic» hat mit einer gefälschten Internet-Versteigerung des neuen Ehrenkreuzes für Tapferkeit kurzzeitig bei der Bundeswehr für Hektik gesorgt.“
(mehr bei sz)

To remind drivers to drive carefully during the rain in Papakura, New Zealand, the local government put out a rather disturbing billboard that bleeds when it rains.

Deutsch? Berlinisch? Türkisch? Kurdisch? Arabisch? Türkendeutsch? ‘Kanak Sprak’? Ja, alles irgendwie richtig. Aber vor allem: KIEZSPRACHE! Habt Ihr’s gewusst? An der Uni Potsdam gibt es einen ganzen Sonderforschungsbereich zu diesem adoleszenten Multiethnolekt. Ja, so heißt das.
Und was genau ist das? Kurz gesagt: Eine Varietät des Deutschen, beeinflusst von verschiedenen Migrantensprachen, vor allem Türkisch,  sowie von [...]

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is a school with no curriculum. At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people [...]

Ein kleines Fundstück vom Bhf. Friedrichstr. Hat mich doch sehr schn,unzeln lassen… Ja ne, is klar!

David Attenborough asks three key questions: how and why did Darwin come up with his theory of evolution? Why do we think he was right? And why is it more important now than ever before?
David starts his journey in Darwin’s home at Down House in Kent, where Darwin worried and puzzled over the origins of [...]

riesenmaschine hatte zuletzt auf diese wundervolle, noch im Wachstum befindliche Sammlung gedruckter produktumhüllender, -beschreibender oder gar -bewerbender Absurditäten hingewiesen. http://fickr.org/

Slashdot brings us another interesting post where Researcher discuss, if the universe may be a hologram and if a german experiment might have stumbled upon a fundamental limit where space-time stops behaving like a smooth continuum and instead dissolves into “grains.” Check it out.