Health & medicine

Percentage of men/women who wash hands in five major cities
Chicago 83%; NYC 49%

Questions kids ask about the blind [sburke]
"How does a blind person identify money?"
"How does a blind person tell time?"

From: Geo

Do you know the "trick" about blowing a raspberry while watching, say, a video monitor? It vibrates your eyeballs, and you can see interference patterns on the monitor as the vibration beats against the monitor scan rate.

Anyway, a friend of mine a while ago was a musician with perfect pitch. Moreover, he had taught himself to push on his temples in just such a way so that, when he hummed, his eyeballs vibrated with the pitch he was humming. With a little practice, he became "the human tachometer"! : "How fast is that propeller over there going?" "I dunno, lemme see, ...mmmmmmmMmmmmmmmMMMMMMM... Oh, about 3400 or so..."

Lama's corpse fails to decompose -- genetics to blame?

Face transplants

Lab-grown steak (How should vegetarians feel about it?)

Redheads need 20% more anesthesia

The "Post-Autistic Economics Movement" (I think they're against all the integrals in advanced econ texts)

Nerds have autism; here's the test.

Ties (and other pieces of clothing) with artistically rendered pathogens

Nasty-looking false teeth (buck, vampire, dog, biker, pubescent...)

Baby with four-inch tail believed to be Hindu god Hanuman (gnat)

Top 200 prescription drugs (1. Hydrocodone; 2. Lipitor; 3. Premarin; 4. Atenolol; 5. Synthroid)

Computer keyboards are full of bacteria (In order from cleanest to dirtiest: bathrooms, computers, telephones)

Dictionary of medical eponyms (e.g. Asperger, Hodgkin, Kaposi)