Facebook’s Telescope on Human Behavior
MIT’s Technology Review has an interesting interview explaining Facebook’s efforts to mine its piles of data and why it says the effort can help explain why people act as they do. More...
Feel Like a Barbie, Be Like a Barbie
We have seen some pretty crazy obsessions before. People have gone out of their way to fulfill their ambitions to look like their favorite stars. One of the most common ones out there seems to be for Barbie dolls. More...
The Headless Chicken Solution
You think putting “human-derived gelatin” into marshmallows, candy and other desserts is disgusting? Messing around with pig stem cells so it produces human blood is cruel? Engineering a stock of sheeps, pigs More...
Happy Valentine
It’s Valentine’s Day so time to eat tons of chocolate, buy roses, or show your secret admiration for your neighbor’s wife. But Valentine’s day originally used to be the day when the Romans More...
Hidden Treasures Of Faded Time
While in certain parts of the modern world you will be executed for expressing your opinion about religion in a single tweet there are nations where the ‘old days’ no longer set the moral standards. More...
DANGER: Freedom of Expression
Malaysia has deported Hamza Kashgari, the Saudi journalist and blogger accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in comments made on Twitter, Al Jazeera reported. Kashgari, a newspaper columnist based in Jeddah, More...
Now That Is One Cool Grandma
Story from a Minnesota State Trooper: I made a traffic stop on an elderly lady the other day for speeding MN State Highway 210 at Mile Marker 197 just East of McGregor, MN. I asked for her driver’s license, registration, More...
All Wet And All Drunk
Imagine yourself being 20, all drunk at a party and you say ‘yes’ to the challenge to participate in a wet T-shirt contest. Nothing new here, happens all over the world and some of you might even have More...
Drinking, Eating, Texting
Human society clearly has entered a transitional time. And with transition comes chaos. Old things must go, for new things to rise; to get organized. Political structures abandoned, morals adjusted. Global systems More...
The Hunt Is Over
Since researchers spoiled my belief that spraying myself with fragrances containing human pheromones would invoke instant “Axe-experiences” I felt a little lost at the nightlife hunt for bodily success. More...
Siliconada
The New York Times has a excellent piece on the culture of plastic surgery in Brazil by anthropologist Alexander Edmonds. Edmonds notes that surgery is not considered to be a correction or salve against the sagging More...
The Day After
There’s a crowd arguing that today’s society is too much dependant on technology. That humanity enhanced with technology has nothing to do with evolution, or natural progress but all with extensive consumerism More...