Sorry Poppins, a spoon full of sugar may make the medicine go down, but if it’s medicinal tiger wine tonic, that stuff’s not getting into my stomach. There are only 3500 tigers left in the wild but over 5000 in captivity in China. But these tiger farms are serving up …

Join The Verge’s Casey Newton for a chat with Gilles BianRosa, CEO of Fanhattan, to talk about the company’s upcoming FanTV set top box. The device is designed to combine traditional cable programming and online streaming services into a single unified interface, and though no specific price and release date …

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Many people in the Indonesian village of Toraja believe the soul doesn’t leave the body until a funeral is held. Until a family can afford a worthy sendoff, the corpse often remains at the family home, where it’s treated like a living family member. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: …

“So Michele Bachmann isn’t running for Congress again. Of course, it has nothing to do with the ethics investigation into her 2012 presidential bid! It’s easy to make fun of her, and I’m certainly not above that. Any member of Congress who calls for an investigation into the loyalty and …

“Republicans lie more — at least according to the Tampa Bay Times’ PolitiFact. A new study found that the fact-checking operation finds Republicans to be less trustworthy than Democrats, based on the number of false claims made during President Obama’s second term.”* Who lies more, Republicans or Democrats? There is …

“While James Lipton is best known for hosting Bravo’s “Inside the Actors Studio,” a recent interview with Parade magazine proves there’s more to him than quizzing thespians. Specifically, he was once a pimp. Lipton, 86, explained that in the 1950s he held that position in the Paris sex trade, thanks …

“Two French activists exchanged vows Wednesday in what was apparently the first gay wedding under the country’s new law legalizing same-sex marriage and adoption. Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau were married in Montpellier, a city in southern France with a large gay community. Autin and Boileau had told Agence France-Presse …

“Last February, in an interview with the technology blog TechCrunch, a senior Google executive expressed a rather philosophical—even postmodernist—view on the future of maps. “If you look at a map and if I look at a map, should it always be the same for you and me? I’m not sure …

“Babies don’t belong in sewage pipes. That much the online community in China agrees upon. On May 25, an unwed 22-year-old woman in China’s eastern Zhejiang province walked into a bathroom and delivered a baby whose existence she had hidden from the world. “* The mother of a baby who …