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Posted in Health, Oddities, Psychology on Apr 24th, 2008
Here’s the rather enticing headline from Fox today:
Study: Masturbation May Prevent Prostate Cancer
Now, this is great news for me. I won’t go into a lot of detail as to why. Let’s just say I”m not a high-prostate cancer risk according to that study. However, that study is more the point of this post than the [...]
Posted in Health, Psychology, Religion on Oct 16th, 2007
DePaul University has recruited a whole bunch of gay brothers to try to find a gay gene. This follows up on the multitude of attempts to find this gay gene in the past. The new research is going about it from a different perspective, I think it has a real chance.
For some inexplicable reason, Fox [...]
Posted in Psychology, Silly science, The Internet on Oct 16th, 2007
That is the amazing conclusion the Pew Internet Project came to. I just have to wonder who thought for one second the inverse of their hypothesis could possibly be true, that teenagers not online could possibly get more contacts via the internet than those that are online?
My experience with parenting a very online fourteen year [...]
Posted in Psychology, Silly science on Aug 1st, 2007
WebMD tackles the oldest question known to mankind. Why do people have sex? Now, the other relevant questions would be “Why do people breathe” and “Why do people eat food”. The cause and effect of sex is that mankind continues to exist. So, to me, as with food, you don’t need [...]
Posted in Psychology, Silly science on Jul 25th, 2007
Some very intrepid researchers in Norway came to this startling conclusion:
Restaurant-goers are a picky crowd, requiring more than just tasty fare to satisfy them. A new study finds that dirty menus and waiting for the check could be just as critical to a diner’s overall experience.
Now, Livescience found some freaks in New York City who [...]
Posted in Books, Entertainment, Humor, Oddities, Paranormal, Psychology, The Solar System on May 2nd, 2007
It’s that time of the month again. We’ve got a big, bright, full moon floating in the sky. For a long, long, long time, man has considered the full moon a sign of craziness.
According to Mythic Realm, Werewolves have been around throughout most of mankind’s written history. Probably the first account of a shapeshifting was [...]
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Film, Health, Psychology on May 1st, 2007
Ever see that flickfrom the 30’s where otherwise normal people take a toke and go crazy? It’s been ridiculed for about the last 70 years or so. Well, what if it’s more true than not? Would it be that funny then? Come to find out:
New findings on marijuana’s damaging effect on the brain show the [...]
Posted in Psychology on Apr 20th, 2007
Skip it. All it proves is he’s as crazy as he obviously was. It’s bad. It’s boring. It’s horribly written. What it did prove was there was something obviously wrong with Cho. I don’t think you can draw the conclusion he was dangerous from it. But, he was [...]
Posted in Psychology on Feb 15th, 2007
My buddy over at BadAstronomy just absolutely goes bonkers over the intelligent design argument. Now, I know some scientists. I don’t really know him, we just disagree on some things occasionally. However, he seems to be handling this issue as most scientists would, especially those that try to mathematically calculate how far it is to [...]
Posted in Psychology on Nov 30th, 2006
It had commonly been believed that rituals, ie religion, dated back about 40,000. However, a new discovery is pushing it back a bit:
….inside a cave in remote hills in Kalahari Desert of Botswana, archeologists found the stone snake [image] that was carved long ago. It is as tall as a man and 20 feet long.
“You [...]