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Category Archives: Science
And Now For Some Oedipus
I took The Freud Quiz: “13/20. You passed, but not by much.” Yet another trauma I’ll have to live with.
Posted in Amusing, Science, Sex
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Frunobulax
“Monster movies have extensively explored scaling relationships, albeit usually incorrectly; knowing the true relationships often puts the entire movie into a new light.” Here’s one for the peasants in the area: a scientific look at the biology of B-Movie monsters. … Continue reading
Day of Misery
The formula for the day of misery reads 1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA. Where W is weather, D is debt – minus the money (d) due on January’s pay day – and T is the time since Christmas. And when is this … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Science
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Tastes Like Chicken
The field of culinary evolution faces one great dilemma: why do most cooked, exotic meats taste like cooked Gallus gallus, the domestic chicken?
I Am Learn
“I wrote a ridiculous Perl program to generate text. Thing is, it developed some bugs, and has managed to create phrases and combinations of words (which actually make sense) that I didn’t even program in. I hooked it up to … Continue reading
Posted in Bizarre, Science
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Meet Robostrider
A tiny robot that can walk on the surface of the water. Interesting. But, please, check Fig 5. What is this? Is this a censored picture of two water striders, caught in the act..? Notice the euphemism in the text … Continue reading
Posted in Randamonium, Science, Sex
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Shiny Happy Brits
If you travel to the UK one of these days, don’t be surprized to see nothing but shiny happy people.
Whoda Thunk
American researchers from the University of Pennsylvania recently spent some time researching why the French remain so much slimmer than Americans. After intensive study, they came to a remarkable conclusion. It was because the French ate less.
Short-Term What?
To all those that tell me I have terrible short-term memory (you know who you are): I finally have a plausible excuse.
The Shy
“Normally, relationships progress by way of a reasonably paced flow of self-disclosure that is reciprocal in nature. A disclosure process that moves too quickly–and computer anonymity removes the stigma of getting sexually explicit–doesn’t just destroy courtship; it is a reliable … Continue reading
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Mango Shark
The chances of finding a shark like Mango are about one in a million.
Posted in Science, Zappa Misc
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