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Monthly Archives: February 2004
SoYouWanna.com - teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught you in school.
Friday, February 27, 2004
A variation on howstuffworks.com
Pet spider kills its owner [Sun]
Friday, February 27, 2004
Gruesome
“A MAN who lived in his own “zoo” of lizards and insects was fatally bitten by a pet black widow spider - then eaten by the other creepy-crawlies.
Police broke in to Mark Voegel’s apartment to find spider Bettina along with 200 others, several snakes, a gecko lizard called Helmut and several thousand termites had [...]
I did it for science… [Slate]
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Very funny story on Slate about a man who tries to have sex with a top of the range love doll…”for science”. Make sure you check out the pictures.
Stunning Columbian girls compensate that poor country for being such a hellhole…
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Treppenwitz [Snopes]
Thursday, February 26, 2004
“Treppenwitz, defined as “the wit of the stairway” - a perfect comeback dreamed up only after the moment for uttering it has passed. The frustration of coming up with a brilliant rejoinder too late to deliver it is a phenomenon most of us have experienced, hence the coining of terms such as treppenwitz or l’espirit [...]
Rebuilding the Food Pyramid [Scientific American]
Thursday, February 26, 2004
“The dietary guide introduced a decade ago has led people astray. Some fats are healthy for the heart, and many carbohydrates clearly are not”
Very interesting look at latest changes to the classic food pyramid.
Teen brains show low motivation [New Scientist]
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
“Teen brains show less activity in the regions associated with motivation, reveals a brain imaging study.
And adolescents may be more willing to engage in dangerous activities such as drink driving because this crucial part of their brain is under-developed, the US researchers suggest.” MORE
Bush has lost it [BBC]
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Possibly in an effort to expose his Democratic rivals, US President George Bush has called for a ban on gay marriage to be anacted in the Constitution no less.
This is an extraordinarily unfair proposition but I think Bush knows that its does not stand a chance and that is why he chose this radical [...]