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I’ve made no bones about my adoration of the HBO series “Game of Thrones” here on the blog. I know I’m not the only one; after all, the series has averaged 2.5 million viewers since it premiered back in April. That said, my nascent obsession has created a little problem for a re-emerging bookworm like me: As I wrote on Twitter a few weeks ago, I’ve been torn between watching the television series completely unspoiled and devouring the “A Song of Ice and Fire” book series wholesale. The flood of book spoilers isn’t really helping.
There’s a very important part of good science, that correlation does not prove causation. To give a crude example, if I’m eating an ice cream cone and a chimp passing by on his way back to the circus goes out of his way to cross the street just to punch me in the stomach, while the same chimp just minds his own business and keeps walking if I’m standing in the same spot but without an ice cream cone, then one can say that ice cream and abdominal pain is correlated. But then one is missing the point.
For a not-so-lovely visual of just how much makeup women cake on their faces ever year, take a gander at “Natural Beauty.” Over nine hours, two makeup artists slathered 365 coats of makeup on the model.
We all know “funny” when he encounter it, but just what’s going on inside the human mind when we snicker at the word “wiener” or revel in a well-crafted pun? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I dive into the world of humor to discuss the evolutionary purpose of humor and just how it changes the world around us.
Um, I really like ice cream.
Therefore, I give you the following ice cream travel advice: Go to an ice cream festival. At the Austin Ice Cream Festival on Aug. 13, 2011, you can participate in (or eat the results of) a homemade ice cream making contest. People actually bring in their own equipment to churn ice cream on the spot. Yum.
NASA’s final space shuttle launch this Friday brings about the end of an era. If you’re like me, you grew up watching the awesome triumphs and stunning tragedies associated with the space shuttle program. Friday’s Atlantis launch brings all this to a close and, amid all the emotion, you’ll probably want to crank some appropriate space music. Here are some recommendations:
Awesome is one of those words that gets watered down through overuse. Literally, it means something that inspires a feeling of awe. That is, it’s something that fills you with reverence, fear or some other overwhelming emotion. Colloquially, we use it to describe anything that’s impressive or good. Once in a while, we use it for something that is just okay. So where does Facebook’s announcement fall in the spectrum?
Korean urologists recently found a correlation between penile and finger length. Specifically, the ratio between the length of a man’s index finger and ring finger may relate to the length of his penis. The shorter the index finger, compared to the ring finger, the longer the penis — possibly.
Rest easy, sharks. Commercial fishermen can’t get you if you’re swimming around in the new 243,000-square-mile (630,000-square-kilometer) shark sanctuary off the coast of The Bahamas.
Yesterday, the Bahamian government announced that commercial shark fishing is banned within those waters.
Here’s the thing about recycling: It’s a lot like voting, in that its effectiveness depends on its scale. Millions of people recycling can make a huge difference, as can millions of people voting. Unfortunately, the majority of the world’s waste is not recycled. Let’s look at the United States: According to the EPA, Americans generated [...]
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