Entries from March 2010

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Men lose their minds speaking to pretty women

Psychologists at Radboud University in The Netherlands carried out the study after one of them was so struck on impressing an attractive woman he had never met before, that he could not remember his address when she asked him where he lived. via telegraph.co.uk Posted via web from crasch’s posterous

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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture

via youtube.com Posted via web from crasch’s posterous

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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Magnets ‘can modify our morality’

The key area of the brain is a knot of nerve cells known as the right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ). The researchers subjected 20 volunteers to a number of tests designed to assess their notions of right and wrong. In one scenario participants were asked how acceptable it was for a man to let his girlfriend [...]

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Thursday, March 25th, 2010

“Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.” –Lord Chesterfield

“Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.” –Lord Chesterfield Posted via email from crasch’s posterous

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Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Brain Preservation Technology Prize

“How far has brain preservation technology progressed in the intervening decades?” and “Exactly what level of brain preservation is necessary to have a reasonable chance of restoring a person?” A Brain Preservation Technology Prize has the unique ability to get the scientific community to start asking these questions. It can accomplish this purely by putting [...]

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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Adele Blanc-Sec (Trailer with English subtitles)

via youtube.com Posted via web from crasch’s posterous

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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

How to Use the Various Shades and Styles of Sarcasm

via basicinstructions.net Via Corlis Baranyk. Posted via web from crasch’s posterous

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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

“The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.” –Scott Adams

“The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.” –Scott Adams (from Crazy or Disciplined?) Posted via email from crasch’s posterous

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Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Should Glenn Reynolds apologize to prostitutes?

But in many ways Congress is nothing like a prostitute. A prostitute only wants cash that customers actually have, and usually tells them the real price of the services being purchased. A prostitute doesn’t impose hidden fees through inflation (we don’t generally give prostitutes the power to print money, but somehow we let Congress approve stimulus packages and [...]

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Monday, March 22nd, 2010

The Liberty Manifesto by PJ O’Rourke

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It’s not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the “right” to education, the “right” to health care, the [...]

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