The headline at Discover Magazine’s Discoblog says “Growing Numbers of People Marrying Inanimate Objects”, but only two such people are named in the post. I’m not sure that qualifies as “growing”, but it definitely qualifies as barmy.
Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer is married to the Berlin Wall.
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Berliner-Mauer (the German name for the Berlin Wall, which she has [...]

A survey of Palestinian Muslims indicates that support for suicide attacks is correlated, not with devotion to Islam as such (as measured by frequency of prayer), but with frequency of mosque attendance.
The researchers surveyed Palestinian Muslims about their attitudes towards religion, including how often they prayed and went to mosque. The researchers found that devotion [...]

Two more pseudo-scientific “studies” purport to find that liberals are psychologically and socially better-adjusted than conservatives.
First, examine the rooms people live in.
[T]he bedrooms and offices of liberals, who are generally thought of as open, tend to be colorful and awash in books about travel, ethnicity, feminism and music, along with music CDs covering folk, classic [...]

This confirms something I’ve suspected about corporate and political leaders for a long time.
When a group is without a leader, you can often count on a narcissist to take charge, a new study suggests. Researchers found that people who score high in narcissism tend to take control of leaderless groups. Narcissism is a trait [...]

Social psychologists have occasionally published studies purporting to show that those favouring conservative political views are cold-hearted egoists with authoritarian and reactionary tendencies and irrational fears of anarchy, sexual promiscuity, and happiness.  (OK, I made up that last one.)
Now comes a study claiming to show that liberals are also driven by fear.  A psychology professor [...]