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MORE LIKE SOCIAL IRRITABILITY

Your score:
16(fear) + 16(avoidance = 32
You do not suffer from social anxiety.

Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (via ethan_t_hein)

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Babies not as innocent as they pretend

THE MOTHS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM

Famed US military mad-scientist bureau DARPA (the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency) is engaged in an effort to grow/build cyborg moths for use as spies. No, really.
The program is called Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, or HI-MEMS. In it, the arguably over-caffeined DARPA boffins aim to construct a tiny lepidopterine infiltration borg by growing a living […]

LITTLE DIFFERENCES

Men Worry More About Penile Size Than Women, Says 60-year-old Research Review
Well, duh. We don’t even have penises.

VIRTUAL IMMORTALITY

The project’s test subject will be a senior [National Science Foundation] program manager known for his wealth of institutional knowledge. A UIC graduate student will shadow this official for several months making video and voice recordings. His presence will be digitally reconstructed and interviews used to glean his institutional insights will be stored in the […]

ECCENTRIC OUTLIERS ‘R’ US

For most people, being perceived as an eccentric outlier is something to be feared. This isn’t fundamentally because most people are corrupt, it’s fundamentally because most people are social animals, and feeling connected with the pack is critical to our sense of well-being. This is why “moving the goalposts” works, even when those doing so […]

THE “OTAY” TAG: AN INTRODUCTION

Dead Deer Can’t Kick (”As promised, here’s a second excerpt from I. Lewis {’Scooter’} Libby’s epic love story, The Apprentice. The sex of the deer is never specified, but it is certainly a doe.”) [stories politics usa deer sex otay]
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McCain courting crucial Death Star vote (STAND THE […]

CAN’T FIND MY WAY HOME

There is a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids, of which, ah, an active ingredient called imidacloprid has been banned in some countries in Europe because of its association with damaging, ah, pollinators. It has a tendency to, at least in the European data, to have the bees forget how to get home. And so this […]

LAUGH? I THOUGHT I’D DIE

The results are just in on a laboratory test of the muffin joke.

NERVES TRANSMIT SOUND?

The Copenhagen University researchers argue that biology and medical textbooks that say nerves relay electrical impulses from the brain to the rest of the body are incorrect.
“For us as physicists, this cannot be the explanation,” said Thomas Heimburg, an associate professor at the university’s Niels Bohr Institute. “The physical laws of thermodynamics tell us that […]