the new shelton wet/dry

‘The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.’ –Shakespeare

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:22:14 +0000

Is it our experiences or our genes that make us who we are? Studying twins has revealed unexpected, and often unnerving, insights into the nature versus nurture debate. Imagine receiving a phone call out of the blue. You find the voice on the other end eerily familiar as it tells you some life-changing news: you are, [...]

Biff Wilcox is looking for you, Rusty James. He’s gonna kill you, Rusty James.

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:20:04 +0000

One reason that real violence looks so ugly is because we have been exposed to so much mythical violence. (…) Contemporary ﬁlm style may give many people the sense that entertainment violence is, if anything, too realistic. Nothing could be farther from the truth. … [They] miss the most important dynamics of violence: that it [...]

We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man.

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:06:37 +0000

{ At the 2009 ceremony, Public Health Prize winner Dr. Elena Bodnar demonstrates her invention — a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander. | The 2009 Ig Nobel Prize Winners | [...]

Thou art to me a delicious torment

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:04:59 +0000

In October 2005, John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell were awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for the Pitch Drop Experiment. The Pitch Drop Experiment is an experiment that began in the year 1927 — in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate [...]

No… I mean for real. ‘Cause you’re, like, the coolest person I’ve ever met, and you don’t even have to try, you know…

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:57:54 +0000

Do people really lie 3 times within 10 minutes of meeting someone new? It’s a statistic often quoted to show how callous and heartless people are. (…) But what kinds of lies are people telling? (…) Lies were categorised by the researchers into 5 areas: feelings, achievements, plans, explanations and facts. (…) The most popular [...]

Applications, strategies, methods and techniques

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:30:45 +0000

Ad agencies 15 years ago didn’t want to know whether or not their ads had actually been read, they told us. This was simply because if an advertiser discovered that few, if any, people were actually reading their ad on page 113, the company might just pull that ad and save their money, taking revenue [...]

What the thunder said

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:30:36 +0000

Law enforcement policy in the United States rests implicitly on the “rational actor” model of traditional economics, which holds that people take only those actions whose benefits exceed their costs. This model says that crime will be deterred if the expected punishment is strong enough — a prediction that has not been borne out in practice. [...]

Ow, ow, fuckity-ow! Bren, when do I get that spinal tap thing?

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:30:15 +0000

{ Barry Ritholtz | more } related { Even after the worst recession of the past seventy years, retail sales this year will be about where they were in 2005. }

Friendship set on fire

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:30:11 +0000

I admit it: I’m a bigot. A hopeless bigot at that: I know my particular prejudice is absurd, but I just can’t control it. It’s Apple. I don’t like Apple products. And the better-designed and more ubiquitous they become, the more I dislike them. I blame the customers. Awful people. Awful. Stop showing me your [...]

Rusty James: I wish you’d talk normal ’cause I don’t understand half the garbage you’re saying. You know? You know what I mean?

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:22:02 +0000

Most people who use Windows are not particularly happy with it; they use it because they are required to at work, and the businesses use it because that’s what everyone else uses. It’s like how English became the most popular language in the world. Many students around the world are required to study English in school, [...]

That ain’t no Etch-A-Sketch, homeskillet

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:20:10 +0000

{ Bizarre police sketches }

Experimentation, slow infection, internal decay

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:19:36 +0000

I sent a drummer friend an e-mail: “What is, in your opinion, the absolute heaviest, banging-est, most insane, loudest, stupidest music of all time?” “What a great question,” he replied. “My answer for you is the 1986 classic album by Slayer “Reign in Blood.” It’s the greatest album ever made. If you need any more help, [...]

Learning lines in the rain, special effects by lunatic and drinks

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:18:24 +0000

The Fermi paradox focuses on the existence of advanced civilizations elsewhere in the galaxy. If these civilizations are out there–and many analyses suggest the galaxy should be teeming with life–why haven’t we seen evidence of them? Today Carlos Cotta and Álvaro Morales from the University of Malaga in Spain add another angle to the discussion. One [...]

Another variant on the mildly erotic romp in the hay theme

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:17:38 +0000

{ Chanel Prêt-à-Porter Spring/Summer 2010 in Paris, October 6th }

The stars are real

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:17:24 +0000

Scientists at the Mind Research Network are able to predict aspects of creativity by measuring quantities of certain molecules in the brain. This same technique can be used to predict cognitive function decline in mental illness and brain disease. (…) Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans, Jung and his colleagues say their research demonstrates how [...]

Silencio old man! Look, I just drank my weight in Sunny-D and I gotta go pronto!

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:15:59 +0000

Detroit officials were approached in 2001 with what was hailed as a visionary project to clean up the unhealthy yellow plumes that cast a pall over the city’s gritty Delray neighborhood. Synagro Technologies would replace outdated incinerators that burn human and industrial waste with new, more efficient machinery, creating jobs and improving the health of the [...]

The Mediterranean dream, the purity of art

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:15:37 +0000

Individuals who follow the Mediterranean dietary pattern—rich in vegetables, fruits, nuts, whole grains and fish—appear less likely to develop depression, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. The lifetime prevalence of mental disorders has been found to be lower in Mediterranean than Northern European countries, according to background information in [...]

California’s like a beautiful, wild girl on heroin… who’s high as a kite, thinkin’ she’s on top of the world, not knowing she’s dying even if you show her the marks

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:15:29 +0000

{ Photo: A Rolling Stones groupie (Still from Cocksucker Blues, 1972, an unreleased documentary film directed by Robert Frank) | I really don’t give a damn about Robert Frank’s “The Americans,” now playing at the Metropolitan Museum. Robert Frank’s true masterpiece is his still unreleased chronicle of the Rolling Stones’ 1972 American tour, Cocksucker Blues, [...]

The holy grail ‘neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o’er her gates.

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:15:10 +0000

According to his publisher, Dan “Da Vinci Code” Brown’s latest book, The Lost Symbol, sold more copies in its first 36 hours than any other adult hardback sold in total. (A certain boy wizard is excluded by the artful qualifier, “adult”.) The sales of Brown’s book were given a boost by an unprecedented price war. [...]

Woody is Condorman, I am Laser Lady! Who are you?

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:14:44 +0000

{ Four-winged dino discovery confirms that birds owe their ancestry to two-footed dinosaurs. } { Fish in a squirrel suit }

‘Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.’ –Mark Twain

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:12:40 +0000

That Mark Twain was something else, wasn’t he? He said so many memorable things, like “If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes” and “Golf is a good walk spoiled.” What a writer, what a guy. Unfortunately—even though Twain is the great American humorist—he didn’t say either of those things. [...]

My sister, my sister, tell me what the trouble is

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:12:18 +0000

Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff–like callousness by the world’s fisheries. Beginning in the 1950s, as their operations became increasingly industrialized–with onboard refrigeration, acoustic fish-finders, and, later, GPS–they first depleted stocks of cod, hake, flounder, sole, and halibut in the Northern Hemisphere. As those stocks disappeared, [...]

Say ‘would you marry me’ in style

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:12:06 +0000

{ New ring discovered around Saturn. }

The mardi rapper toe-tapper always have it flowin

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:12:05 +0000

Before 1991, sampling in certain genres of music was accepted practice and such copyright considerations as these were viewed as largely irrelevant. The strict decision against rapper Biz Markie’s appropriation of a Gilbert O’Sullivan song in the case Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records, Inc. changed practices and opinions overnight. Samples now had [...]

Flap, Woody! Flap!

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:10:45 +0000

{ The periodic table has been stamped into the minds of countless generations of schoolchildren. Immediately recognised and universally adopted, it has long since achieved iconic status. So why change it? }

Guerrero

Pantherhouse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:10:13 +0000

{ via Alain Finkielkraut Rock }