You’d think in this day and age, people would stop taking one of the most cliché pictures of all time, trying to hold up the Leaning Tower of Pisa via forced perspective. Unfortunately, they haven’t; however, we have unlikely hero Darius Groza, who ran around and high-fived tourists while they were attempting to prevent the famous tower from tumbling to the ground.

Though Troll Science has died down a bit since its relatively recent heyday, it continues to amuse, especially when people translate it from rage comics to real life. In the above video, we see a staple of Troll Science: Producing infinite energy by plugging a power strip into itself, rather than a wall. The demonstrator “tests” the power source by plugging lights into the outlets and seeing if they’ll turn on. They do, of course, but that’s part of the fun. Can you guess the trickery used in the video?

Google has announced a change to its privacy policy, and if you want to keep using their myriad services, you better get used to it because there’s no opting out. The change? Google now reserves the right to share the data it has on you between its various applications. Gmail used to be like Vegas; what you did there stayed there. Now, it’s more like a venereal disease you picked up in Vegas; it’s going to follow you around all over Google Maps.

A recently leaked memo indicates that Verizon really wants its customers to use autopay or electronic checks. So much so that it’s going to start charging a $2 convenience fee to all customers who utilize the pay by phone or online payment option. The big idea, from Verizon’s perspective, is to push their customers into modes of payments where Verizon won’t have to foot a credit card fee. Of course, with a $2 fee rolling out, it might actually turn consistent, forgetful fee-payers into a better cash cow, but either way, the fee will make the situation a win-win for Verizon. That is, if they don’t mind getting their customers a little bit angry.

We’ve all heard the reasons why dieting can be unhealthy. Most nutritionists will tell you that eating the right food in the right quantity is far more beneficial for health than going on some fad diet, but researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have a new reason why you shouldn’t diet. Dieting causes the brain to eat itself. Om, nom, nom.

Published in the journal Cell Metabolism, the researchers found that in mice, neurons in the hypothalamus start to eat their own organelles (interior parts of a cell) and proteins when the animals are deprived of food. Now, the body cannibalizing itself isn’t something new, when the body is starving cells will start consuming pieces of themselves in a process known as autophagy, but until now, it was believed that the brain was resistant to this process.

Now who could possibly be behind this? Leading Belgian newspaper De Standaard, with a circulation of close to 100,000 and a readership of over 360,000, is holding, in its own words, an “extremely irresponsible” contest called “Verover de voorpagina” (“conquer the front page”) in which readers get to submit ideas for a future front cover for the paper. The Internet then votes on these ideas, so you know how that goes; whoever wins could have their submission on the actual, in-print front cover. Currently leading the pack, with over 6,000 votes versus the 1,300 votes of the #2 submission: Internet mascot Trollface.