A team of researchers led by brain scientist John Yeomans at the University of Toronto in Canada used special microphones to eavesdrop on mice during sex. When they let a male mouse into a female’s cage, he approached her with a series of whistle calls and then, during intercourse, sang more complex chirp songs until [...]
Read more →http://www.webcomicsnation.com/poyorick/botg/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10960 A cereal comic in which all the brand characters from US breakfast cereals (tony the tiger, etc.) live together in a wonderland, menaced by Count Chocula. It’s kind of astonishingly well done. Two books online, more coming, total labor of love.
Read more →Just… watch this. Tell me if you didn’t just see the future flash before your eyes. Balls. Of. Steel. They keep this stuff up, and they could get the four or five percent it would take to start fixing shit on a major scale.
Read more →http://www.scribd.com/doc/2425806/The-Art-of-Designing-Markets Long write up of that kidney market which gets more matches between donors and patients than can be got without performing a global optimization. Very good stuff.
Read more →The Islamic Conference (OIC) has allegedly punched a hole in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by inserting the following text into some UN docs. To report on instances where the abuse of the right of freedom of expression constitutes an act of racial or religious discrimination taking into account Articles 19(3) and 20 of [...]
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