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The Omnibrain is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, The Omnibrain is a real graduate student at a real school somewhere in the continental United States - or maybe Europe.
OmniBrain is now Of Two Minds!
Category: Biology
It seems that there is a new way to tell if someone is gay. Look at the top of their head. Yes that's right, have them bend over, get onto their knees.. or you could stand on a chair and look. If their hair is swirling a little funny they might (or more likely might not) be gay.
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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-...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 10:24 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Art
The Neurocritic highlighted a recent study in which sildenafil (brand name Viagra) and related drug rolipram (they're both phosphodiesterase inhibitors) improved cognitive performance in monkeys. Both drugs were equally effective in improving the monkeys' ability to correctly reach a food treat in a transparent box with one open side, which...
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 8:00 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolutionary Psychology
In what sounds like a whole lot of hand waving (but hey! I study vision what do I know!), scientists have 'discovered' that creepy old men running after their daughters friends has led to an increase in life expectancy for human kind. Just think that people like Woody Allen, Jerry...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 9:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sex
It was only a matter of time until someone created a sex toy for dogs. From the description: A dog is an animal with an enormous sexual appetite which can't be controlled. Many methods consist in artificial ways to stop dogs inborn caractere. These methods like castration or meds are...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 10:24 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sex
...just kidding! It's nearly every month that a new study comes out showing that abstinence only programs don't do shit. This time a study from Oxford shows, through a meta-analysis of 13 different U.S. trials, that none of the abstinence-only programmes had an impact on the age at which individuals...
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Category: Humor
There seem to be certain drinks that as a guy you should just not order at a bar - because if you do... no woman will ever sleep with you again (well unless she likes girly men *with Arnooolldd accent*). I found a link via fark with a list of...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 9:17 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
I received a press release from MedHelp.com announcing a partnership with the American Academy of Ophthalmology. MedHelp runs an online community where users post questions and get free answers from doctors as well as other users (colour coded to tell them apart). They're affiliated with quite a few professional...
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sex
According to David Bus: * Physical reasons such as to reduce stress ("It seemed like good exercise"), feel pleasure ("It's exciting"), improve or expand experiences ("I was curious about sex"), and the physical desirability of their partner ("The person was a good dancer"). * Goal-based reasons, including utilitarian or practical...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 10:06 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sex
Self explanatory - highly entertaining. -via digg-...
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