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Jul
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Sexist jokes favor the mental mechanisms that justify violence against women

It seems inconcurous that this rather depressing sounding piece of research have to come out of what, on the surface, seems like a jolly old meeting: the ‘International Summer School and Symposium on Humour and Laughter: Theory, Research and Applications’ at the University fo Granada?


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Just take four or so cubes of frozen black coffee [the left overs from your espresso boiler or the like], pop them in the jam-jar
(or cocktail shaker), smash them up a bit with a pestle, add semi-skimmed milk, shake hard until the ice begins to mingle with the milk and pour into a glass or cup. Or into a vacuum flask so you can take it to the park
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Jul
1st
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nedroidcomics: The Science of Cosby

That’s just too distubing for words

nedroidcomics: The Science of Cosby

That’s just too distubing for words

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pictures for sad children
Physics: the blackest of the black arts….

pictures for sad children

Physics: the blackest of the black arts….

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Leopard cats: exotic and (sometimes) wild in the UK : Tetrapod Zoology
I didn’t realised one of these was killed in Cheshire (I was dragged up in that flat and salty land).

Leopard cats: exotic and (sometimes) wild in the UK : Tetrapod Zoology

I didn’t realised one of these was killed in Cheshire (I was dragged up in that flat and salty land).

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Jun
29th
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Jun
19th
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Lasith Malinga: a duck-billed platypus
The male duck-billed platypus has poisonous spurs on its ankles. Like Malinga, there’s danger there, and it comes from much lower down than you expect it to.
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Jun
18th
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Who work in science? Honestly, it’s just depressing sometimes.
“despite an ever growing number of PhDs and increased national budgets, there are disproportionally fewer young faculty receiving NIH grants” (via Are there too many PhDs? | Mendeley Blog
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Who work in science? Honestly, it’s just depressing sometimes.

“despite an ever growing number of PhDs and increased national budgets, there are disproportionally fewer young faculty receiving NIH grants” (via Are there too many PhDs? | Mendeley Blog

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Jun
16th
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danmeth:

Futuristic Movie Timeline#6 In A Series Of Pop-Cultural Charts
(click here for a larger version)
No one really pays much attention to what year sci-fi movies take place. I thought it would be interesting to arrange some classic films about the future into chronological order and see what we’d find. I’ve also charted the years in which they were released as well as the current year. This is by far the geekiest thing I’ve ever done.

danmeth:

Futuristic Movie Timeline
#6 In A Series Of Pop-Cultural Charts

(click here for a larger version)

No one really pays much attention to what year sci-fi movies take place. I thought it would be interesting to arrange some classic films about the future into chronological order and see what we’d find. I’ve also charted the years in which they were released as well as the current year. This is by far the geekiest thing I’ve ever done.

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Reviewers and editors are empowered to ask for almost anything they can imagine. Gedanken experiments that are dreamed up on the fly condemn researchers to weeks of additional work that produces incremental bits of information to be relegated to Supplemental Siberia. If we refuse, we will very likely risk finding our paper degraded to an ever more `specialized’ journal. We dread the response: `Thank you for resubmitting your manuscript. In light of the disappointing assessment by reviewers, we suggest you consider submitting your now extensively revised paper, which we must have once thought sort of interesting, to the Journal of Experiments that Time Forgot (J. Exp. Time Forg.)’.
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