Creative malcontent.

My jaw just locked:
A former Massachusetts dentist is accused of putting paper clips in patients’ mouths during root canals, then billing Medicaid for the stainless steel posts he should have used. The state attorney general announced Tuesday that a grand jury indicted former Fall River dentist Michael Clair last week on charges including assault and [...]

From Physorg:
For those that don’t know:
[In] every region investigated, researchers have found that as pornography has increased in availability, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased.
What is fascinating is not the exposure to pornography that increases a man’s chance of being a sex criminal – it is the context of the exposure:
[R]apists were more [...]

Coming to light gradually:
“That research program was one of the great secrets of Japan during and after World War II: a vast project to develop weapons of biological warfare, including plague, anthrax, cholera and a dozen other pathogens.
Experiments on Chinese civilians:
unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army conducted research by experimenting on humans and by [...]

Found on Gawker:
Merrie Harris, global business director at JWT, said that after being informed that it could not use the word vagina in advertising by three broadcast networks, it shot the ad cited above with the actress instead saying “down there,” which was rejected by two of the three networks. Both Ms. Harris and representatives [...]

More from the science category on Reddit:
It spends its days as an amoeba, lazily meandering around and eating bacteria. But when it’s stressed out, it grows two long, whip-like appendages called flagella. … ”Naegleria’s pretty amazing because it can make one of these structures entirely from scratch. And it does it really fast,” Fritz-Laylin says. “It [...]

From Science Daily:
“We determined which genetic ‘gateway’ or ion channel, in the hydra is involved in light sensitivity,” said senior author Todd H. Oakley, assistant professor in UCSB’s Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology. “This is the same gateway that is used in human vision.” … The gene, called opsin, is present in vision among [...]

Great rant from Jeremy Clarkson:
We seem to have lost sight of the fact that throughout history 90% of people have behaved quite normally 90% of the time. Agatha Christie, for instance, was home-schooled and at no point was she forced to eat breadcrumbs from her neighbour’s bird table. Of course, at the extremes, you have 5% [...]

Hmmmm:
Back then, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) spent millions studying the issue. They found that sudden acceleration was several times more likely among elderly drivers than young drivers, and much more frequent among the very short or someone who had just gotten into a vehicle. In the 24 cases [of 'sudden acceleration'] [...]