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Gene Expression: Intercourse and Intelligence
premise: Depending on the specific age and gender, an adolescent with an IQ of 100 was 1.5 to 5 times more likely to have had intercourse than a teen with a score of 120 or 130. Each additional point of IQ increased the odds of virginity by 2.7% for males and 1.7% for females. But […]
I Wouldn’t Still Be Here If It Weren’t My Company
Admin girl: Are you sure you don’t have any meetings scheduled this afternoon or want to leave early to get a start on your weekend?Boss: Nope, I’m all free this afternoon and thought I’d catch up on paper work.Admin girl: Oh, okay.Boss: Why?Admin girl: Because when you leave early I normally give you 10 minutes’ […]
crazy egg thing
what the crap is this thing? Technorati Tags: egg, physics
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science, Volume XIII.
Lo, when there are hundreds of thousands of freakin’ crushed dead mice on thy macadam. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science, Volume XIII. Technorati Tags: deadmice, funny, humor, mcsweeneys
programmer humor: lisp
if only you knew the power of xkcd Technorati Tags: benkenobi, funny, humor, lisp, lukeskywalker, programing, programmer, starwars, xkcd
Device wakes man with severe brain injuries | Science & Health | Reuters
A man with severe brain injuries who spent six years in a near-vegetative state can now chew his food, watch a movie and talk with family thanks to a brain pacemaker that may change the way such patients are treated, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. The 38-year-old man is the first person in a minimally […]
says the annoyngly loud girl behind me:
“i don’t mean to be racist, or rude, or anything, but, we got, like, the blacks workin’ there now, too, and they, like, talk so the old people can’t un’erstand `em, and they run around in HORDES and they, like, kinda scare me.” guess what, annoying and loud girl? you are racist and rude, even […]
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my right knee hurts today
a metaphor for today
just now i found birdpoo in my hair. awesome.
stromdotcom: Shark with webbed feet
A worker of the Malaysian Fisheries Development Board (LKIM) in Batu Maung, Penang, made this unusual find when she was given the 1.7kg fish by a fisherman at the jetty recently. stromdotcom: Shark with webbed feet what do we do when the landsharks attack??? Technorati Tags: feet, landshark, shark, web, webbed, webbedfeet
Infinite monkey theorem – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ha ha ha ha ha: Even if a monkey could learn to write a play and describe the characters’ behavior, it could not reveal the characters’ minds and so build an ironic tragedy. Infinite monkey theorem – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia my favorite allusion to this is in douglas adams’ The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the […]
truthflag
for my take, see john crane’s post about this, and flickerbulb’s comments below.