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And now, some amusing pseudoscience...
http://www.aclu.org/womensrights/edu...s20090325.html
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Under the sex-segregation program at Hankins Middle School this year, teachers had been instructed to treat boys and girls differently. At a teacher training, teachers were informed that boys should be taught about "heroic behavior" but that girls should learn "good character." Teachers were told that male hormone levels directly relate to success at "traditional male tasks" but that when stress levels rise in an adolescent girl's brain, "other things shut down." A story in the Mobile Press-Register reported that a language arts exercise for sixth grade girls involved asking the girls to use as many descriptive words as possible to describe their dream wedding cake, while the boys were asked to brainstorm action verbs used in sports.
According to Mark Jones, whose son Jacob attends Hankins Middle School, the school principal told him that the changes at Hankins were necessary because boys' and girls' brains are so different that they needed different curriculums.
I hear "anywhere else in the world" has good schools.
Just add 'nano' and you can even make roadside drug testing sound cool...
Well, almost.
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/23111/
http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf
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Zombies are a popular figure in pop culture/entertainment and they are usually portrayed as being brought about through an outbreak or epidemic. Consequently, we model a zombie attack, using biological assumptions based on popular zombie movies. We introduce a basic model for zombie infection, determine equilibria and their stability, and illustrate the outcome with numerical solutions. We then refine the model to introduce a latent period of zombification, whereby humans are infected, but not infectious, before becoming undead. We then modify the model to include the effects of possible quarantine or a cure. Finally, we examine the impact of regular, impulsive reductions in the number of zombies and derive conditions under which eradication can occur. We show that only quick, aggressive attacks can stave off the doomsday scenario: the collapse of society as zombies overtake us all.
Is light gray text the future?
Yes it is. Learn it. Love it. Live it.
Here's a weighty matter for your consideration:
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/0...cts_our_p.html
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A research team found that they could alter people's judgement of importance just by getting them to answer questions using a heavier clipboard.
In a series of short elegant experiments, a research team led by psychologist Nils Jostmann found that people holding a heavy clipboard would, for example, value foreign currencies more highly than those using a lighter clipboard.
Of course, this might be because of the simple association that larger amounts of money weigh more, so they looked at whether more abstract judgements about value could be affected by weight.
Subsequent studies showed that heavier clipboards led to participants placing more importance on the university listening to student opinions, and that participants were more likely to link their opinion of whether Amsterdam was a great city to the competence of the mayor.
Multitasking is bad for you now:
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/03/6417.ars
If I'm ever hunting for a job again, I'm going to go against the grain on my resume when it comes to being a great multitasker.
Everything is good for you if you wait long enough for researchers to dig into it:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...st-health.html
Of course, everything is bad for you too. How do you keep all this science straight? Just remember that living greatly increases your chances of dying and you'll be fine... until you die.
Taking care of global warming, one supercomputer at a time...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz0PPPxmQF3
Shh... don't tell anyone about how green electric cars aren't.
Autopsy science shouldn't be weird but increasingly is...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/ma...=all&position=
Protect yourself with anti-wireless paint!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8279549.stm
Is Batman a cocksucker?
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:...l.pone.0007595
Is hope a motherfucker?
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-urs103009.php
http://health.usnews.com/articles/he...n-the-lab.html
Quote:
Scientists Grow New Penile Tissue in the Lab
Douchebags implanted with new cells regained sexual function, study says
MONDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers were able to restore sexual function to douchebags with damaged penises by growing new penile tissue in the lab and implanting it, a new study reports.
Though a non-douchebag application is a ways off, researchers say the technique could one day be used to treat severe erectile dysfunction in men.
"We were able to show the tissue was able to integrate and function in the long term, which means we can start planning clinical applications [in humans]," said Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and senior author of the study. "Our hope is to be able to treat patients with many conditions, including congenital abnormalities of the penis, traumatic injuries, lack of a porn star dick, penile cancer and severe cases of erectile dysfunction that don't benefit from drug treatments."
So if you get circumsized and then grow the shit back, does it still count?
Taymelo?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091116/...RlbnRpYWxmb3I-
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children who don't show normal fear responses to loud, unpleasant sounds at the age of 3 may be more likely to commit crimes as adults, according to a new study.
Yu Gao and colleagues in the United States and the United Kingdom compared results from a study of almost 1,800 children born in 1969 and 1970 on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius to criminal records of group members 20 years later.
At age 3, the children were tested to gauge their level of "fear conditioning," or fear of consequences. The idea is that children who associate unpleasant sounds or other unpleasant experiences with fear will be less likely to commit antisocial acts because they will link such experiences with punishments for those acts.
Researchers tested the 3-year-olds' responses to unpleasant noises using a lie detector. When they looked at any criminal records among the participants 20 years later, 137 of them (131 male, 6 female) had at least one criminal conviction.
Compared to almost 300 participants with no criminal records, those 137 participants had a much lower response to the noises at the age of 3.
The findings could link previous studies suggesting that psychopaths and children with behavioral problems at the age of 11 have similar abnormalities in a part of the brain called the amygdala. That structure is largely responsible for directing fear of consequences.
Because this study controlled for social factors such as parents' education, number of parents in the home, socioeconomic status, and family size, biology is the likely reason for the "blunted emotions" registered in some of the 3 year olds, study co-author, Dr. Adrian Raine of the University of York in England, told Reuters Health in a telephone interview.
Still, the researchers warn against reading too much into their findings. The results do not offer a biological way to identify future criminals.
"Crime is clearly a complex construct involving multiple interactions between genetic, brain, family and social influences," they write.
But, they conclude, the findings provide some support for the idea that the potential for antisocial and criminal behavior may be hard-wired in young brains - which means that if the results hold, "efforts to prevent and treat this worldwide behavior problem will increasingly rely on early health interventions."
In the category of "just plain cool"...
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci...1014-gw6o.html
US Navy Ordered to Listen for Martian Radio Broadcasts in 1924
http://www.examiner.com/x-21670-Hous...dcasts-in-1924
Feds using Playstations for Kiddie Porn investigations:
http://www.axcessnews.com/index.php/...ow/id/19037?31
^^
Umm.. did they discover it, or did they also read the articles about the group of hackers who used 200 PS3s to crack SSL a year ago? My guess is the latter, since your general crime fighting agencies wouldn't think to try gaming consoles.Quote:
The company discovered the PS3's ability.
Does Josef Mengele's legacy live on?
http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...2#tab-Overview
That was on 60 minutes or something a while ago. Crazy shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Uncle Mxy
I'm watching that shit.
Who needs steroids? Super strength... for real!
http://singularityhub.com/2009/12/08...-human-trials/
That is weird
Sports scandals / suspicions are just going to get crazy.
I'm going to take this another way: With all these crazy-ass experiments, were only a few years away from the Zombie Apacolypse. At some point something is going to go terribly wrong, and us WTF brothers are going to have to bond together to survive.
Know the rules. Be ready.Quote:
Originally Posted by MoTown
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shop try and top right
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2...utm_medium=rss
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The presence of a functional α-actinin-3 gene is correlated with athletic performance. A study of the frequency of the R577X mutation in athletes and controls found that there is a significant reduction in the frequency of the mutation among sprinters and power-lifters. At the Olympic level, none of the sprinters in the sample (32 individuals) carried the α-actinin-3 deficiency. Among Olympic power lifters, all had at least one functional copy of α-actinin-3.
Yet another species worth saving found in some far-flung exotic land... NOT!
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientis...utm_medium=rss
^^ugh. fkin gross
http://www.popsci.com/science/articl...over-addiction
It's funny how everyone who ends up on the island is so linked to the island and their arrival was foreshadowed throughout multiple events in their lives before arriving ...
Except half the cast from the 1st season and the generics they kill off every so often.
wrong thread much?
I agree, though, I love the foreshadowing... somewhat proves they're not just pulling shit out of their asses and that there may be a great ending
Like + 11 now.
The death tax experiment, happening now...
http://improbable.com/2010/01/13/sle...bable+Research)
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientis...utm_medium=rssQuote:
For decades, it was widely suspected that a small seabird, the Arctic Tern, Sterna paradisaea, migrates an estimated 40,000 km each year -- the longest migratory journey of any animal.
"This is a mind-boggling achievement for a bird of just over 100 grams," says the study's first author Carsten Egevang, a seabird researcher with the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources.
But no one really knew precisely where they went nor how far these birds actually traveled on each trip.
