Read this and you'll look smart. You don't have to be intelligent to impress people -- you just have to fake it. Here's a daily list of fascinating articles that will wow your friends, surprise your co-workers and make you seem sharp at a cocktail party or over the lunch counter....
- The Metropolitan Opera may have its first tech masterpiece. "Faust" is the Met's first interactive opera -- relying on infrared cameras, digital projectors and, at some points, using the sounds of the orchestra to trigger and shape video projections on the set.
- Pig organs may be used for transplanting into human patients within a decade and if tests are successful the practice could be widespread by 2018.
- Low income and loneliness have contributed to the spike in crime among Japan's elderly -- which has doubled over the past five years.
- The 35.56-carat Wittelsbach diamond is the second largest blue diamond and has been worn by at least three royal families in Europe. It's now being auctioned off at Christie's by an anonymous seller.
- A group of castaways headed to Puerto Rico from the Dominican Republic that became hundreds of miles off course and watched 27 of their companions die were forced to eat human flesh to stay alive.
- Director Danny Boyle of "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later" fame is shot a film in the slums of Mumbai and Coca-Cola and Mercedes-Benz wanted no part of it -- forcing producers to cut their logos from the gritty scenes.
- Emotional well-being could be affected by the amount of time we spend indoors. One theorist argues that when humans distance themselves from nature it has adverse psychological consequences and can lead to ecological devastation.