Nuking Dreams

This is from a recent issue of Science:
In 2004, a research team led by Pierre Maquet of the University of Liège, Belgium, used positron emission tomography (PET) to monitor brain activity in men playing a virtual-reality game in which they learned to navigate through a virtual town (actually a scene from the shoot-’em-up video game [...]

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ROFLCOPTER

So I was reading this article on the top 10 mysteries of the mind, and one of them was about the purpose of laughter. Nobody really knows what it is.
And when you think about it, laughter is pretty strange. Someone says something “funny”, and in response, your lips curl up and [...]

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Hey You Guys

On a daily basis, I find myself wondering what happened to Chunk from The Goonies. Now, I wonder no more: Chunk is all grown up and successful. And while I’m a straight male, I have a suspicion that he might even be a little bit hot.
See also: Truffleshuffle.com.

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Book Review: The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins

I’ll try not to write much here, since this book has already been written about way too much. Briefly, my opinion is that this book doesn’t break a whole lot of new ground, but it puts some common arguments for atheism in popular language and is an enjoyable read. For the most part, [...]

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