Reading material

A variety of just randomly interesting articles I'm reading today and thought others might also find intriguing:

New tell-all book "Heads in Beds" purports to tell you what really goes on when you rent a room. Spoiler alert: Feel free to use the mini-bar, and don't forget to tip.

Accidents happen. Surgeons left 4,857 items inside patients over the past two decades (mostly sponges). 

A history of invented languages, most of which have failed miserably.

Why poetry makes you weird.

A short history of boredom.

And, finally, how the U.S. gun industry became so lucrative.