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Steve Higgins is sometimes a Psychologist, sometimes a Neuroscientist, and sometimes even a Human Factors Engineer. He works for the U.S. Government. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Psychology.
Category: Food
I'm seriously considering dropping science (although the methods might come in handy) and taking up food. Check out my latest creation - a cold smoker: The idea here is that you generate smoke in the green, steel, eggish shaped thing - and then pipe it into the 55 gallon barrel...
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Category: Video
"A thrilling documentary covering the origins and troubles surrounding the severe disease, Brain Freeze [a.k.a. Iceberger's Syndrome]." Link....
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Category: Sex
This is one odd video. This French Orangina TV ad has furries wearing kinky lingerie and an octopus giving a lap dance to a bear. Check it out: I guess I shouldn't be surprised after this previous post about a French set of ads on safe sex practices. -Via BoingBoing-...
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Category: Drugs
This will probably never be made into an anti-drug ad campaign, but I can't imagine a stronger deterrent. Angel's Trumpet is a flower that contains scopolamine and other alkaloids. It's known as a "biogenic drug" and presumed by naive recreational drug users to be harmless because it's a plant....
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Category: Food
A video featuring the cartoon fetus eating Christopher Reeve as well as a serious video from CBS News. Learn as well as be offended all in the same post!
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Category: Research
Clearly many problems with this study were missed in the peer review process.
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Category: Biology
An entertaining posting on craigslist: Survival Of The Fittest Date: 2007-08-30, 2:03PM EDT Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my...
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Category: Food
Cookin' babies and their brains: How to Make a Bleeding Zombie Brain: Brains! Build your own goopy bloody gray-matter: Ohh my god! like... How-To Eat Halloween Brains! Beverly Hills style......
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Category: Food
Ahh Halloween - when neuroscientists find all sorts of fake brains for sale and recipes to create them. Here is the greatest brain recipe of all time:
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Category: Food
MMmmmm..... Brains! Mixed chocolate human mini brains treats with cherries is a set of twelve anatomically correct mini Chocolate Brains. Each brain is 1x1.25x.75" -via Neatorama-...
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