A hungarian guy made Mozart-like, prodigy chess players out of his three daughters

Prodigy as in 8th place in the world.
[...] Chess correspondents Malcolm Pein and David Norwood describe her [Judit Polgar] as ‘incredibly personable and nice’ and ‘very sweet, quite fun and not big-headed’. Both men were beaten by her at a time when [...]

40 facts about sleep you probably didn’t know… (or were too tired to tink about)

Pretty self-explanatory title at http://abc.net.au/science/sleep/facts.htm

How to stop receiving stupid mails from friends

I find it’s a pretty elegant solution: reply them with a link to the http://www.thanksno.com/ page. They might understand AND be ok with it :)