• Breakthrough Research on Real-World Driver Behavior Released: “Nearly 80 percent of crashes and 65 percent of near-crashes involved some form of driver inattention within three seconds before the event. Primary causes of driver inattention are distracting activities, such as cell phone use, and drowsiness.”
• Monkey steals camera to snap himself: He’s a handsome fella!
• Serpent-handling pastor profiled earlier in Washington Post dies from rattlesnake bite: More faith = more stupidity = more death. To act on the basis of faith means to act without factual evidence or contrary to factual evidence. As such, faith is a kind of self-imposed, willful stupidity. That death results from that — sometimes killing just one person, sometimes killing millions — is to be expected.
• Watch Angelina and her celebrity friends become hideously ugly as strange ‘flashed face’ optical illusion video effect works its horrible magic: This optical illusion is really creepy, and apparently, the researchers aren’t yet sure of its cause.
• Nguyen for the Win!: Personally, I’m disappointed that they’re not octuplets.
• Boyfriend Doesn’t Have Ebola. Probably.: Paul needs to start using this new pain chart with his patients … pronto!
• How Common Is Your Birthday?: Apparently, baby-making happens mostly during the winter. My birthday, December 13th, looks to be pretty rare. (YAY!)
• Stressed out kitty gets relaxing massage: It’s relaxing to watch!
• Let Fury Have the Hour: Early Days in the Fight for Gay Rights: “In late 1971, two years after the Stonewall riots in New York sparked the modern gay rights movement in America, and twelve months before LIFE ceased publishing as a weekly, the magazine featured an article on “gay liberation” that, seen a full 40 years later, feels sensational, measured and somehow endearingly, deeply square all at the same time.” Don’t miss the 16 photos.

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