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01/08/08 // Link:
Babies Gravitate Toward Good Samaritans So does this mean we get more gullible and less astute in our observations as we age? I know this news is a bit old, but it’s worth linking too anyway: Six- and 10-month-old babies are much more capable judges …continue reading »
01/05/08 // Link:
Woolgathering… My friend Lee just started blogging. If you’re looking for “well-fed white guy stuff” (his words not mine, but come to think of it that’s basically what you’re getting here too so you must like it) check out Woolgathering, looks …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
Life Before Air Conditioning Having spent the seven of the last ten years in the American south, where summer is a sweltering miserable nightmare, I’ve given quite a lot of thought to heat, air-conditioning and the impacts both have had on the local culture. …continue reading »
09/18/07 // Link:
Big Brother is Watching us All There’s a line in the quintessentially paranoid film Enemy of the State where Gene Hackman’s character suggests that all the technology being used to track Will Smith’s characheter is nothing, antiquated, compared to what could be used. Judging by this …continue reading »
08/04/07 // Link:
Photo Gallery Of The Summer Redneck Games What features the mud pit belly flop contest and a butt crack contest held while participants bob for pickled pigs feet? The Redneck Summer Games of course. Held every summer not far from where I live. I didn’t make it …continue reading »
07/27/07 // Link:
3 Famous Psychology Studies That Would Be Illegal Today “What happened to the good old days, when a scientist could just rustle together some test subjects and let loose in the lab? You know, without having to worry about petty humane things.. like ethics!” Indeed. And what’s more, who …continue reading »
03/20/07 // Link:
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S and UK 1815-1914 The public fascination with the human drama of the courtroom did not begin with Perry Mason or Court TV. Cases involving the relationships between men and women, within or outside the bonds of marriage, have long engaged the popular imagination. …continue reading »
02/26/07 // Link:
Council for Secular Humanism - Religion in Conflict “Let’s be fair: Until now, it has been virtually impossible to get a fair hearing for critical comment upon uncontested religious claims. It was considered impolite, in bad taste, and it threatened to raise doubts about God’s existence or hegemony. …continue reading »
02/03/07 // Link:
The Ashtray of History Atlantic Monthly: “When the French National Library airbrushed the cigarette out of Jean-Paul Sartre’s hand in a 2005 poster of the iconic, chain-smoking philosopher, you knew it was only a matter of time. This February, France joins a growing number …continue reading »
01/23/07 // Link:
Vienna gallery admits visitors to erotic art exhibition for free if they disrobe VIENNA, Austria - Vienna’s prestigious Leopold Museum is usually a pretty buttoned-down place, but on Friday, some of the nudes in its marble galleries were for real. Scores of naked or scantily clad people wandered the museum, lured by an …continue reading »
01/22/07 // Link:
The Happiest Man In The World “To scientists, he is the world’s happiest man. His level of mind control is astonishing and the upbeat impulses in his brain are off the scale. Now Matthieu Ricard, 60, a French academic-turned-Buddhist monk, is to share his secrets to …continue reading »
01/22/07 // Link:
Does Urban Sprawl Make You Fat? (University of British Columbia urban planning professor Lawrence) Frank’s team, like the other groups, found that areas with interspersed homes, shops, and offices had fewer obese residents than did homogeneous residential areas whose residents were of a similar age, income, …continue reading »
01/21/07 // Link:
Women Prefer Men Desired By Others Just having a few women smile at a man in public is enough to make other women consider him much more desirable, according to researchers. British psychologists, led by Benedict Jones of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, have discovered …continue reading »
07/22/06 // Link:
Chamber Plots - New York Times What prompts people to place books in the loo? Are the ones we keep there a reflection of our deepest selves?continue reading »
07/05/06 // Link:
Britons tire of cruel, vulgar US People in Britain view the United States as a vulgar, crime-ridden society obsessed with money and led by an incompetent president whose Iraq policy is failing, according to a newspaper poll. Yep. That about covers it.continue reading »

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