Today in #tips, MIT students stink, the creators of South Park plan a Mormon musical, mixed-race people are better at life, the president's mental condition, padded bikini tops to play up your 7-year-old's curves, and more.
spikenard shares the intriguing story that a student committee at MIT is attempting to combat stank study odors that particularly afflict the school's Reading Room during finals. Deodorant, toothpaste, mouthwash and other amenities will be made available during this trying time, though one student fears that the measures will further encourage hygiene-neglecting students to skip all semblance of showers and social graces and go for the samples alone.
m4ximusprim3 finds the latest scary talking point: Is President Barack Obama mentally ill and tipping toward delusion because he takes time to answer questions thoroughly? TL;DR.
Slatka highlights a new study that people of mixed-race backgrounds are perceived as generally more attractive and are "disproportionally" successful in their professions. Considering the study set out with a Darwinian theory as their hypothetical model—that of "heterosis, the biological phenomenon that predicts that cross-breeding leads to offspring that are genetically fitter than their parents"—it will be summarily dismissed by the Creationist inbred.
breathless has coverage from the strange land of our colonizers: While American parents struggle with the idea that their 18-year-olds aren't chastely dancing at prom, a British High Street retailer sold padded, low-cut bikinis for seven-year-old girls. Since the sexxxy not-even-tween halter tops hit the news cycle, Primark stores have backpedaled and removed the merchandise, pledging the funds from previous sales will go to kiddy charities. Mother Britain! They talk somewhat like us and gave us life, and are really nothing like us whatsoever.
Opinion-As-Fact follows the rabbit down the moneyhole in Google's attempt to procure Foursquare.
BullfightsOnAcid plays Animal Planet reporter for the day with three fauntastic tales: a most adorable (mixed-race?) black-and-white speckled pony, spotted cantering about in the wilds of the U.K. (wait until they truss her up with a blinged-out bridle). In Argentina, wily criminals disguised as sheep outwit Wily E. Cops. Also in breaking beast news, you can hire a retired police drug dog to search your child's room so that you needn't worry about that whole parenting thing.
DogsOfWar makes our day with word that South Park kingpins and your #tips correspondent's personal prophets Trey Parker and Matt Stone are teaming up with Avenue Q creator Robert Lopez for a musical adaptation of "The Book of Mormon." If you haven't seen the SP episode where Stan's dad decides to convert the family to Mormonism and Joseph Smith's fraud is related in glorious, melodious flashback, we're not sure we can be friends anymore.
drunkexpatwriter tells of the diehard Motley Crue fan (these apparently exist!) who legally changed his name to that of Crue bassist Nikki Sixx and was recently charged with the second-degree murder of a man in British Columbia. The erstwhile Jeffery Alan Smith had seen previous trouble with the law in Kelowna and a place called Dawson Creek — a place where, we can only hope, a sixteen-year-old Joey Potter is climbing up a ladder and Tom Cruise is still a movie star who was cool in Top Gun a zillion years ago and they won't actually be married in a few years or have a daughter who wears toddler high heels (which is kind of like padded child bikinis only different because they indicate your little angel won't be a future drag king like that Shiloh Jolie-Pitt).
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