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Check out these amazing pieces of 3d Fakery in a swimming pool. I'd personally get a 3d shark pool to keep those damn kids out of my yard. Well... at least I would if I were 80 and had a yard with a pool.
According to the LA Times
Citing a fistful of studies that show teenagers among the most distracted and dangerous of drivers, the state Assembly on Monday passed a bill that would prohibit drivers under the age of 18 from using a cellphone, pager, text-messaging device or laptop while driving.
Ohh…
Remember this guy from a few posts ago?!
Nothing is actually wrong with his face. Check out the answer (and another picture) after the break...
Here he is again with a little more telling setup.
According to the website of Lawrence D. Rosenblum and Mike Gordon at UC Riverside:
The point-light…
Bet you can't guess what's going on with this guy's face!
I'll give you a hint.... it has to do with psychology.
Give us your best guess and I'll tell you tomorrow why all that crap is all over his face.
Question...
How does one harness for God?
As seen on the road trip to the SciBlings first get together in NYC by Steve, Shelley, and RPM
We're all back...finally... safely... You can look forward to the fruits of many hours of silly conversations (Fetish Friday anyone?!) from the very long drive…
According to an article in Salon, via Mind Hacks:
The American Psychological Association, the world's largest professional organization of psychologists, is poised to issue a formal condemnation of a raft of notorious interrogation tactics employed by U.S. authorities against detainees during the…
I'm all about the video this morning...This particular animated image drives me up the f'n wall!
From the creator of Women in Art comes Women in Film. Can you pick out all the stars?
-via Neatorama-
Is there any surprise that I'd post something like this? hehe.. yup probably not.
Via Everyday Scientist
You've played the game.... now see the movie - Minesweeper!
Funny stuff....
Thanks Davemeister Rozovskiramadamadingdong!
From Gary O:
Harvard and MIT researchers have finally addressed a question that has long been puzzling mankind: "If you were a New World monkey, would you rather listen to Russian lullabies or German techno?" In the September issue of Cognition, Josh McDermott and Marc Hauser report finding that…
I've put a voting widget in the side bar over there on the left. It will let you vote once a month until the election (I think). So...vote for your favorite candidate and lets see who wins here at Omni Brain!
I promise... we'll keep our voting system just as secure as Diebold! No need to worry,…
It was only a matter of time until someone created a sex toy for dogs.
From the description:
A dog is an animal with an enormous sexual appetite which can't be controlled. Many methods consist in artificial ways to stop dogs inborn caractere. These methods like castration or meds are going…
...just kidding! It's nearly every month that a new study comes out showing that abstinence only programs don't do shit. This time a study from Oxford shows, through a meta-analysis of 13 different U.S. trials, that
none of the abstinence-only programmes had an impact on the age at which…
Ok ok... they do have a sense of humor but... age related cognitive decline has led to many older adults not getting 'the joke'. In a study by Wingyun Mak and Brian Carpenter, Ph.D. , of Washington University they discovered that
Humor comprehension in older adults functions in a different fashion…
So freaking cool (and freaky)...Via Neatorama and Curious Expeditions.
It is a remarkable bit of irony, that finger. Venerated, kept in reliquary, subjected to the same treatment as a Saint. But this finger belonged to no Saint. It is the long bony finger of an enemy of the church, a heretic. A man…
I discovered this pretty neat blog via boingboing today (at least that's where I think I found it). This illustration seems to show something that is strangely like an fMRI machine... well with fire instead of magnets, bricks instead of plastic, and smoke instead of a computer analyzing brain…
Here's another interesting book from the "Review copies of books Steve gets in the mail from publication companies, like Prometheus Books, that love bloggers" series If you've read this book please let us know what you think in the comments section.
Todays book is The (Fabulous) Fibonacci Numbers…
There's a great Flickr slide show with some brilliant LOL Philosophers right here.
Here's one of my favorites:
And a link to a few LOLScientists was brought to my attention recently. Check them out here.
Here begins another new series at Omni Brain. This one is called, Review copies of books Steve gets in the mail from publication companies, like Prometheus Books, that love bloggers, Long enough title for you?
I actually don't have time to read anywhere near all of these books so I'm going to…
Since we're talking about panicking about drugs today, complements of Robot Chicken:
Stop smoking pot immediately! You WILL go CRAZY!!! Panic!
The study by Zammit and colleagues, published in the medical journal the Lancet, reanalyzed data from seven long-term studies on psychotic illnesses and marijuana involving 61,000 participants.
The researchers filtered out about 60 factors…
Ok ok... I'll do it too.....
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This weeks article is again from the Book Review section of the NYTimes on April 28, 1890. Admittedly, I'm not very familiar with the history of Physiognomy so I am learning about it a little bit today as I post this. It is essentially Phrenology of the face, even more ridiculous and can be used…
Music & Life: An Alan Watts Animation by Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Peter Giancola & Michelle Corman of the University of Kentucky have determined why drunks at the bar get into fights. Here's how they did it and the pretty nifty results:
The scientists tested this idea on a group of young Kentucky men. Some of the men drank three to four screwdrivers before…
Wow... I knew that many animals had herpes and if you want to get a herpes free lab animal it costs many times what a 'normal' herpes carrying animal does. But wow... Chlamydia in Koalas?! Maybe some of you bio people out there can tell us whether it's the same Chlamydia humans carry. So…