That Sound? That Was The Internet Exploding
That sound you just heard? That was the internet exploding in a hail of guitars. Suddenly, everywhere on the internet is awash in the same rumor:Emanuel Fialik of Pilgrim Management GmbH, which...
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TPM brings us the full dirt on the scary-sounding "ice packs full of clay" being used by terrorists practicing bombing runs.
View ArticleOnce Again: Scientists Continue to Prove That Scientists Just Hate Mice
From Joe Z. Tsien's article "The Memory Code" from the July 2007 issue of Scientific American (emphasis mine):Witnessing the 9/11 terrorist attacks, surviving an earthquake or even plummeting 13...
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War is Funny?
War Is Boring #1 Originally uploaded by david_axeI just discovered War is Boring, a comic featuring the adventures of David Axe; war journalist, Danger Room contributor, and author of the...
View ArticleYour Mildly Amusing Comic Book Moment of the Day
Manoman I wish I had a scanner right now. On the other hand, it may require a somewhat specific sense of humor to find the following caption excerpt insanely funny (emphasis from original):Dr. Strange,...
View ArticleHoly Crap!
I was just in the shower when I suddenly realized that the blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned!
View ArticleToday's SciAm Moment
Another excerpt from the July 2007 issue of Scientific American, this time from the Fact or Fiction? column (yes, guess what I've been reading on the bus to work):Most modern cars, however, are...
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
This picture makes me want to cry:On the upside, the article reminded me that Wally is playing for Seattle now (having been traded for Jesus), so I'll get to see him up close again once we move out...
View ArticleIf You're Minnesotan and You Know It...
Then this is the funniest thing ever. Well, if you follow the Timberwolves obsessively: T-Hud's album sells 78 copies. I think there are more posters advertising it than that on my bus ride to work....
View ArticleAsk a Stupid Question...
Okay, so bitwise linked to this article about priming in the NYT, and true to form I got obsessively distracted halfway through... by the font for the "Mental Health & Behavior" section. Does it...
View ArticleFrom the What-The-Hey? Department:
From this AP article, in which we learn the Senate is moving (once again) to put tobacco under the FDA's jurisdiction; but we also learn the following:The committee adopted an amendment by Sen. Mike...
View ArticleFYI
We had some bridge-related shenanigans in Minneapolis today; but AFAIK me and mine are all OK.
View ArticleTwo Observations From Jamba Juice & One From an Airplane
#1: The second most horrifying sentence I've heard thus far this week: "I'm gonna have to run back to get a band-aid soon because this thing fell on me again and I'm bleeding all over the place." This,...
View ArticleNew Candidate for Most Useless Headline Ever
Reuters: Brain chemical has key role in ADHD
View ArticleYour Tuesday Sort-Of SciAm Moment
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn--from The Gulag Archipelago--as quoted in Michael Shermer's Skeptic column from the latest issue of Scientific American:If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously...
View ArticleGoogle Search Terms Q & A
In response to the person who arrived at my blog using the google search terms "3-minute depression cure does it work?":No. I'm pretty sure that no, it doesn't.
View ArticleToday's Epiphany
Just so you know, I finally have a legitimate excuse for horribly erratic posting habits, as I'm currently simultaneously preparing to move across the country and writing my first paper for...
View ArticleThings I have that make me happy
#1.) A poster proof! It's all shiny and everything!#2.) The first figure done for my paper. And decent revisions of both the Intro & the Methods section. No Results or Discussion yet... next week...
View ArticleI don't know, man, I didn't do it!
Sorry about the RSS feed crapping out like that. Don't look at me, I haven't posted in ages! It's TOTALLY blogger's fault!
View ArticleFirst day of class
Just got out of my first class, NEUBEH 501A: Introduction to Neurobiology. Based on the syllabus and the first lecture; it looks like a lot of the same old, same old... but I'm sure I'll regret having...
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