A surreal and supremely inane compendium of miscellaneous knowledge, Vol 12

Man sneaks monkey onto plane by hiding it under his hat. "On a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to New York's LaGuardia airport, people around the man noticed that a marmoset - a fist-sized animal which normally lives in forest and eats fruit and insects - had emerged from underneath his hat and was perching on his ponytail, according to Alison Russell, a Spirit Airlines spokeswoman. 'Other passengers asked the man if he knew he had a monkey on him,' Russell said. The monkey spent the remainder of the flight in the man's seat and behaved well." (Photo of example marmoset by digiyesica) Link

Economist profiles Geoffrey Miller, evolutionary psychologist. "His idea is that the human brain is the anthropoid equivalent of the peacock's tail. In other words, it is an organ designed to attract the opposite sex." Link

Somebody needs to tell Rep. Bob Allen that in Houston, you can get out of a traffic ticket by giving the cop a blow job. "Houston Assistant Police Chief claims that trading oral sex in exchange for avoiding arrest for traffic warrants was a mutual agreement involving 'consent' by the motorist." Link

$90 gadget sniffs for tainted meat. Link

Video -- "probably one of the best TV series on psychology and neuroscience ever produced, the BBC's Brain Story, is available on public bittorrent servers for download." Link

Kevin Kelly explains how he saved 2% when he bought a house using Redfin. Link

Local news: four galaxies collide, five billion light-years from Earth. Link

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