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November 16, 2014
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February 21, 2014
Counting curse words on Twitter, Fuck Yeah!
There are charts for time of day, day of week and gender breakdowns, too!
October 16, 2013
August 25, 2013
August 21, 2013
Five Brands Of Beer Connected to Emergency Room Visits
"Nationwide, roughly a third of all visits to emergency rooms for injuries are alcohol related."
"...five beer brands were consumed most often by people who ended up in the emergency room. They were Budweiser, Steel Reserve, Colt 45, Bud Ice and Bud Light."
"...the breakdown of liquor consumption in the study may be particular to Baltimore..."
July 08, 2013
Vibrating Genitals May Ward Off Predators
"When a bat moves in for the kill, some moths jiggle their genitals. Researchers made the observation by studying three species of hawk moths—big moths that can hover—in Malaysia. They snared the insects with bright lights, tied tiny leashes around their waists, and let them fly while bat attack sounds played. All three species responded to the noises with ultrasound—which they made by shaking their private parts, the team reports online today in Biology Letters."Yes, I did post this just for the title.
June 26, 2013
Geek Humor: Sugar Cube
The number plate is the chemical equation for Glucose, and the car is called a Cube, it is therefore a giant sugar cube
June 15, 2013
Smarter people drink more. It's Science!
"Go ahead, order that second beer: You deserve it because you're so smart. According to the greatest study in the history of science (we're only slightly exaggerating), smarter people tend to drink "more frequently and in greater quantities" than their duller, drier peers."Thanks Rebecca
via now.msn.com
May 10, 2013
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February 27, 2013
Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars and Their Careers (SFW)
Using the Internet Adult Film Database, "the premier resource for information about the American porn community on the web (who knew?)," Jon Millward extracted lots of interesting information about those who work in porn movies: Most common names: Nikki & David; average bra size: 34B. The infographic above is a color wheel of actresses races. Read the story at JonMillward.com.
February 19, 2013
There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written
"In Alaska’s North Slope, the population of bowhead whales seems to be recovering. But that’s really not the coolest part of this Alaska Dispatch story. Instead, it’s this, noticed by Geoffry Gagnon"
"Bowheads seem to be recovering from the harvest of Yankee commercial whaling from 1848 to 1915, which wiped out all but 1,000 or so animals. Because the creatures can live longer than 200 years — a fact [Craig] George discovered when he found an old stone harpoon point in a whale — some of the bowheads alive today may have themselves dodged the barbed steel points of the Yankee whalers."
Read the rest at blogs.smithsonianmag.com
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