Another treasure trove on Wikipedia. Learn it by heart and be the smartass who spoils every good pub chat.

A wonderful, personal essay by Jonathan Harris (whose work I’ve featured in the Weekly Filet before) on living in chapters and getting stuck.

A christmas story brought to you by science: What elevators and facades do to your empathy and why we’re sometimes nice even though no one is looking.

In the end, it was a close 5:4 vote. The Supreme Court of the USA has ruled this week that limiting marriage to heterosexuals is unconstitutional. Here’s an unusual take on the matter: The voting behaviour of the nine justices can be modelled by comparing them to magnets. Yes, magnets.

A gut-wrenching story about a man with Body Integrity Identity Disorder. He felt the urgent need to have his (sane) right leg amputated, until…he found a doctor willing to do so.

Musician Jack White makes things unnecessarily difficult for himself. You should, too.

Makes for a pretty good opening of a text: «Traits that are common among psychopathic serial killers…are also shared by politicians and world leaders.» It only gets better after that. Go read it.

Of course, we never fall for those cheap tricks shops use to make us buy their stuff. Do we?

Insomnia, more than not being able to sleep, is about being afraid of just that. Interesting read.