If the Zeigarnik Effect is real (and it is in fact disputed) then you are less likely to procrastinate once you actually start a task.

Whither The Webpage.

Does it even matter what a website looks like anymore?

POMO!

Everyone Lies to Avoid Hanging Out with Each Other, Study Says.

We're all familiar with these lies—"My dog is sick," "I have a thing," "Band practice," "Actually I'm trying not to drink anymore," "I'm not your girlfriend anymore," "I think you have the wrong number." We recognize them in others, and we use them ourselves in order to maintain the facade that we really would love to come to your noise music festival—unfortunately there are some bugs coming out of a hole in the wall and also our cousin is in town.

A selection of the winning entries of the National Geographic travel photographer of the year contest.

Rosamunde!

The Nazis were pioneers of musical sadism, although loudspeakers were apparently deployed more to drown out the screams of victims than to torture them.

Why bad ideas refuse to die.

They may have been disproved by science or dismissed as ridiculous, but some foolish beliefs endure. In theory they should wither away – but it’s not that simple.

Skewering “the bastards who decide our lives.”

Oriana Fallaci, brilliant political journalist and terrible islamophobe.

US Declaration of Independence first and final drafts as GitHub diffs (via reddit.com).

Did the UK vote for Brexit because of those annoying cookie notifications?

So whose idea was it in the first place?

Chris Holmes’ Flashback Photobomber Hoodie vs Saif Siddiqui’s Ishu.