New research conducted at the University of Nottingham claims that people who eat five more portions of vegetables than they normally do became tan and thereby "more attractive," by increasing "carotenoid levels giving your skin golden tones." Well okay! [BBC]

The dumbest person on CNN (which is really saying something), Erick Erickson, is mad as hell at Media Matters, who he calls "atheists and twinkie eaters" and "the Westboro Baptist D.C. Branch," because they don't love Jesus Christ. Oh, Jesus.

[A man in Brisbane, Australia paddles to safety on his surfboard as the flooded Brisbane River peaked at just under 15 feet today. Image via Getty]

Brett Favre's younger sister Brandi — who's previously been in trouble for shoplifting and participating in a drive-by shooting (!) — was arrested yesterday in a suburban meth lab in Mississippi. Narcotics agents entered while the lab was "still cooking."

"To be honest with you, [Arizona] can be pretty boring for a trauma surgeon sometimes."

Martha Stewart has a human skull in her kitchen. No, really! Watch this video. And then ask yourself: Why? And: Is it real? And: If it is real, whose skull is it? Update: Mystery solved!

When AOL bought TechCrunch last September, the first question on everyone's lips was, "How long could Mike Arrington possibly last as an AOL employee?"

Madeline Klima, an 81-year-old who lives in Brooklyn, was returning from her job cleaning offices when a thief picked her up and—in her words—"like, threw me." She's okay! But not feeling particularly forgiving toward the mugger.

Mt. Etna's been busy! The largest active volcano in Europe erupted on Wednesday night, sending lava down its ridge. The eruption only lasted an hour, and didn't pose a threat, but boy did it make for some pretty visuals.

Police in England conducted a raid on a garage suspected of containing heating systems for growing marijuana. Alas! It was just a heater for two cold guinea pigs. Poor cops! I would be disappointed, too, but probably for different reasons.

Peter Thiel, Facebook's first outside investor, has had a bad year. His once lucrative hedge fund, Clarium Capital Management, lost money for a third straight year, bringing its assets down 90 percent since its peak. Now he's become a doomsayer.

Remember that old white guy who turned into a young Asian guy mid-flight? It was an attempt by a Chinese immigrant to illegally enter Canada. 8 people have been arrested for allegedly helping him sneak in for around $45,000.

Tonight, Jon Stewart continued to reflect on Saturday's deadly Arizona shooting by highlighting a couple of proposed (and reactionary) laws aimed at preventing it from happening again—though one is just "saying 'Fuck you!' to Sarah Palin." Watch inside.

If a normal person finds a normal person's dead body on the side of the road in Los Angeles, that's a blurb in the police blotter. But if Peter Fonda finds a dead body, that's a TMZ post.

Have you secretly wished you could warm up a cold dinner by shooing fire out of your hands? Well now you can with the new Flame Glove System. While just a prototype at the moment, we can still dream.

On March 25th, 2010 Gabrielle Giffords went on msnbc and warned Sarah Palin that there would be consequences to her actions for depicting her district in crosshairs.

Obama gave a speech today at the memorial service for the victims of last week's Arizona shooting. The debate surrounding the shooting centers on the 'tone' of political discourse, but the tone of this event was pretty damn confusing.

Chelsea Peretti talks about her "exotic" Italian-Jewish looks and inheriting the nose of both cultures.

Have those midwinter blahs got you down? Here's the cure: Join us while we watch tonight's episode of Top Chef and live-blog it in the comments under this post. Your mood will change from dreary to cheery in no time!

Facebook thinks it can become a trillion-dollar company, two sources tell Business Insider, or twice as valuable as Apple and Google combined. That will require very clever exploitation of private user data. But if anyone can do that, it's Facebook!