Men, if there a direct indicator of how much love you are feeling, something that could be measured and displayed very clearly, women would be thrilled. Because if they can measure it, they can train you using it.

Dr. Jon Cowan, the CEO of Peak Achievement Training, says they have found the “Cupid brainwave” – what they call “Neureka!” (neuroscience plus eureka) brainwaves that are related to feelings of love, happiness and gratitude. He presented his experimental findings at recent meetings of the International Society for Neurofeedback and Research and the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. Their claim: People who enhance these feelings have stronger Neureka! brainwave patterns.
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Men and women have orgasms differently. Some studies claim a female orgasm would kill an ordinary man – but men are not without their own resources. Sometimes our sweet lovin’ is so good it causes amnesia.

I know what you are thinking; ‘he means plenty of supermodels have wanted to forget they had sex with him’. No, I mean literal amnesia. Transient global amnesia is not new but the study in The Journal of Emergency Medicine(1) is certainly distinct (in numerous ways – they are usually pretty staid, writing about violence against emergency workers and such, not middle-aged people having sex and losing their minds) because it was not related to a seizure or any detectable brain damage.
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A team at BAE System in Sweden has developed new technology called Adaptiv which is basically an ‘invisibility cloak’ they claim can make modern war tanks look like part of the landscape. Even cows.

Adaptiv has scanners that read objects on the landscape and reproduce them using patterns of hot and cold on panels on the hull of the vehicle. An infrared image is then produced, making it effectively invisible to enemies who will read their cloaked tank as a car or even a cow. Large hexagonal metal plates can be heated or cooled to disguise buildings, ships or helicopters.
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The guys at WGRD.com got bored with silly science experiments like freezing something really fast or the double slit experiment, so they carefully compiled some science data on what happens to boobs on roller coasters.
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It’s easy not to respect skiers because it is a sport only well-heeled parents can afford for kids. If you need a poster child for skiers with a sense of entitlement, you found one in Robert “Sandy” Vietze, 18, who has blown his chance to compete in the 2014 Winter Games in Russia.

He may not have made the team anyway, since skiing is competitive and drunken idiots can get to trials on talent but usually not to Yje Show. This idiot was so drunk on a recent airplane flight he stumbled up to an 11-year-old girl who was traveling with her father, a Stage 4 cancer patient, and pissed on her. When the father returned from the restroom to witness it, he tried to punch out 6-foot-4-inch, 195-pound Vietze. The only thing more pathetic than being a spoiled, drunken sot peeing on a girl’s leg is getting punched out by a cancer patient. Read the rest of this entry »

Back when blogging first started, it was lonely. Me and maybe 5 other people were being funny on the Internet. Otherwise, humor was dominated by big companies and blogging was dominated by earnest do-gooders protesting wars (until a Democrat did it – neo-con imperialism in Libya is standing up for freedom so we get no war protests) and whatever else would annoy a Republican president.

These days, even mainstream media blogging is chock full of quality humor. So I had no trouble finding details on the the annual Bubble Babba Love Doll Race that took place at the Vuoksa River Rapids near Saint-Petersburg a few days ago. Over 800 people were willing to see how the dolls can save lives, should it be essential.

What is it? Nothing but an excuse to read the title of this post in your favorite Russian accent. Seriously, this is it. Not only is this it, the pics are NSFW despite the fact they are plastic or latex or whatever these things are made of.
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Ads for drugs today are kind of silly. Ads for erectile dysfunction, for example, are weird geological changes happening in real time that end up with a couple sitting in bathtubs in a forest somewhere, instead of being about what men really care about – banging their wives when they couldn’t do so before.

And other products have 5 seconds of benefit followed by paragraphs of disclaimers about side effects ending with “see our ad in GOLF magazine”.

Golf magazine must be read solely by really, really ill people.

It wasn’t always like that. Ads used to be ridiculous exaggerations and downright funny. Got cocaine and you will sell it to kids? Let people know!
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I have long objected to health mullahs and their war on what we want to eat. Their rationale is that people are really, really stupid and are solely educated by advertising so it needs to be controlled – or foods banned entirely. I disagree we are really, really stupid and instead submit we are really, really fat.

But you know what? We would be the envy of every culture throughout history. It used to be you had to be rich to be fat – now you have to be rich to be thin. Plentiful food at low cost is Utopia and the goal of a progressive society.

And no one cares about progress and society like the New York State Fair. Check out this beast: a quarter-pound of hamburger between slices of a grilled, glazed doughnut. Throw in cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato and onion and you’ve got yourself a 1,500-calorie meal, including the major food groups, for $5.

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If you want to get people on bikes, there has to be a compelling reason that offsets looking like a dork in a helmet or showing up sweaty at work. One reason that may work – convincing women they should like sweaty dorks on bikes.
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Pieris rapae is a chromatic white butterfly – to us, anyway. In the UV spectrum they have a number of bright colors on their upper wings but we can’t see them. Pterins, pigments on their wing scales, vary a lot among them and can be impacted by diet.

The brighter the male colors, the more desirable he is to females. Knowing that, researchers are able to study their mating behavior in the lab. But it doesn’t just involve any old females, they raised virgin ones in the lab. Butterfly research is a lot more interesting now, right?
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