OmniBrain is now Of Two Minds!
Stupid People:
I haven't been blogging lately because Shelley and I have been getting the new blog ready to go public on March 1st. However... I read this crap on CNN and got so irritated that I had to post it. Evidently CNN feels that people who measure peoples facial features and...
Posted on February 24, 2008 9:59 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Unsurprisingly the James Randi Educational Foundation has had a problem giving away their million dollar prize to someone who could demonstrate scientifically under controlled circumstances that they could perform some sort of paranormal ability. They aren't even that specific on what kind of paranormal ability it has to be. It...
Posted on January 8, 2008 3:31 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The mind is a complicated and a still very much unknown entity. The earliest conceptions of the mind didn't even have it placed in the brain, instead it was very much separate from the body. This is of course all very silly, the only possibility is that the mind wholly...
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Posted on January 4, 2008 6:29 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why Duck and Cover of course! Check out this great video from the cold war:...
Posted on December 23, 2007 8:23 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I always joke around that I would make the worst therapist since my 'therapy' would consist of something like this: Surprisingly (well maybe not that surprisingly since the internet appeared) this method seems to be practiced somewhere seriously. The Kadir-Buxton Method involves: making a fist of both hands, and striking...
Posted on December 16, 2007 11:55 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yeah you heard me right... there is no good reason why Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, or any of the other tabloid celebs are so paid attention to. They contribute nothing to society - and they aren't even that attractive. Dr Torkel Klingberg and Fiona McNab have come up with...
Posted on December 10, 2007 10:23 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted on December 10, 2007 10:00 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Do you want to know why you aren't getting comments on your blog? Do you wonder why you manage to piss off everyone you come across? Your answer is here! This fabulous new equation will determine how many comments you will get for your obnoxious/boring posts!
Posted on November 14, 2007 1:51 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
In time for Halloween: Trailer for Central State: Asylum for the Insane. A filmmaker prowls a closed mental institution to "...uncover the mysteries left behind when the facilities closed in 1994." There's lots of shaky handheld camerawork in poorly lit tunnels, and shakier rumours of ghosts, but no exploration into...
Posted on October 26, 2007 8:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 on September 14, 2007 9:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Steve Higgins 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, Steve is a real graduate student at a real school.
