For those who have been using Gmail (and/or Google Apps) and have been putting up with Google’s rather poor (or odd) implenation of the IMAP protocol, this will come as good news.

Google Labs have added a feature that enables you to fine-tune how IMAP is handled.

To enable this feature, go to Settings » Labs in Gmail and enable the Advanced IMAP Controls Lab. Read the official Google blog post for full details.

Via: Lucid Design Blog.

“Scientists are making the first attempts to understand spiritual experience — and what happens in the brains and bodies of people who believe they connect with the divine.”

“The field is called “neurotheology,” and although it is new, it’s drawing prominent researchers in the U.S. and Canada. Scientists have found that the brains of people who spend untold hours in prayer and meditation are different.”

“The more you focus on something — whether that’s math or auto racing or football or God — the more that becomes your reality, the more it becomes written into the neural connections of your brain.”

via NPR.

Taking vintage typewriters and turning them into sculptures without using an kind of glue, welding or soldering may sound impossible, but not for Jeremy Mayer who has created these amazing typewriter sculptures by using cold assembly methods.

From: 10 Amazing Sculptures Made of Typewriters

I guess someone had to ask…

Cute introductions be damned. Has anyone ever had sex in space? Go ahead, tell me the NASA folks themselves never wanted to know what it would be like, or whether it would even be possible.

via The Straight Dope: Has anyone ever had sex in space?.

Too funny.  WTF French people indeed.

Via Kotaku.