Women really do look better at 2AM, right? Nope, they look better pretty much any time of day if you drink enough beer. Science says so. Or does it? Evidence has been inconsistent in the past so a group of concerned researchers set out to improve the methodology of prior efforts and answer the question once and for all – do ‘beer goggles’, where the opposite sex actually look attractive just like special eyeglasses might make them look, exist?

The Bond University researchers tested 80 intoxicated and non-intoxicated university student social drinkers (both genders) at a campus pub and campus parties over a 3-month period. After measuring their blood alcohol concentration using a breath test, they had them take a survey rating the attractiveness of unfamiliar faces in photos of the opposite gender. Really, Australia must be the best place ever to go to college. (more…)

Muslim terrorists (you know who you are) beware; we let you force us to have body-cavity searchers for iPods and hair gel and we’re okay taking off our shoes for no apparent reason but messing with the Miss USA pageant could be the last straw.

If you aren’t familiar with the Miss USA pageant, it is a copycat of Miss America. Why do we need two? For the same reason we need two political parties though, other than forced sodomy zones mandated by Democrats and forced Bible studies classes mandated by Republicans, I can’t find a difference between them – because they make money for people.
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If you’re a student of culture, a number of things have likely piqued your curiosity; like why so many modern people get drunk about ancient religous stuff.   Take Mardi Gras, for example – go to any Mardi Gras celebration and 98% of people there will be Protestants, so they haven’t fasted for Lent in over 400 years, and 85% won’t know why they are getting drunk at all, but they still act like they are getting ready to starve for 40 days – if by starving we mean not having yards of beer for 11 straight hours.  

It’s a real mystery but at least it gets people thinking about religion and its relationship to Brazilian strippers.

A few weeks later, give or take, we have St. Patrick’s day, a celebration of a guy who wanted to drive out pagan head dresses, hot wiccan chicks and drunken bacchanalia; really, everything that was great about the Celts.  Who in their right mind wants to celebrate that?

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At the University of Indianapolis, communications major Katie Stam is supposedly known for her scholarship, leadership and volunteer work – and not her great legs, despite the fact that this is the one thing virtually everyone else on planet Earth knows about her.

Why are the students and administrators at U of I so jaw-droppingly dumb? Science has no explanation for that.

She’s an aspiring journalist, which may explain their blindness. When most people see journalists, they only see sanctimonious left-wing shills who talk about the thrill that runs up their leg when they dream of Barack Obama and issue pithy platitudes like, “I’d like to say it one more time: ‘Mr. President.’”
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Carrie Prejean, Miss California, USA
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Scheana Marie Jancan
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It’s not often you can boil down complicated abstract ideas of science or culture into simple concepts everyone can understand.  Gems like “for every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction” don’t come along every day.   But every time someone asks me what science is like I simply say “You’ve seen The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.  It’s like that” and they nod knowingly.

What?  You haven’t seen it?   Read on my friends.   In a few key phrases you will know everything you need to know.  Science wisdom, as distilled by quotes from one of the greatest science films of all time (and it’s fun for Halloween too) – The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. It’s also PG and totally safe for older children, unless your kid is prone to irrational fear of Skeletorama-motion plastic props and utters sentences like …

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I’m taking a moment away from crafting “Journey To The Center Of The Uterus”, my opus on reproduction and culture, to discuss something of equal import – namely, orgasms.

It will shock you to know this, but nearly 50% of British women don’t have orgasms. Are they frigid? No, not at all, as my 1999 layover at Heathrow can attest. Science funding is the issue, as we shall see.

As we have discussed in articles like Science Wants To Give You Better Orgasms and Would Female Orgasms Kill Men?, (1) orgasms are tricky business but scientists know what they are doing. Fewer scientists means fewer orgasms. Britain is in the throes of a science funding meltdown so the problem for British women will only get worse. With fewer scientists there can be fewer studies on important stuff like this.

What are we talking about?

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Kendra Wilkinson
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