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steveSteve 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.


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Multimedia Friday - Heroin, Any Questions?

Anti-drug ad parody that's also an anti-drug ad itself. This is Your Brain on Heroin: Any Questions?....

Klingons VS Furries - The Aftermath (photos!)

Well... the Klingons and Furries finally got together and had battle... in a bowling alley. Here's some of the exciting (WEIRD) results: If this girl only knew... See the rest of the flickr set here. Via BoingBoing I wonder if any of the Furries went home with the Klingons? What...

The Big Smoking Bong of Harvard Neuroscientists

Mind Hacks has alerted us to some amazing engineering from Harvard University: A team from Harvard Medical School are interested in how smoked marijuana affects the brain, but have come to the inevitable conclusion that it's actually quite hard smoking a joint when you're lying on your back being brain...

Bums and Conservatives

Addiction, homelessness, and science vs. ideology.

NASA claims pilots never flew drunk.... what Omni Brain has to say

According to the LA Times:NASA said Wednesday that it had found no evidence that any of its astronauts ever flew while inebriated, or even showed up for work impaired, as was recently alleged by an outside investigative panel. Bull Shit. Tang is disgusting without Vodka....

Drinks men should just not order. What do you think?

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...

Coping with a Writing Addiction

1. Decide ahead of time how much money you plan to write with. 2. Write knowing that it is likely that you will lose more often than win - so make sure you are writing with money you can afford to lose. 3. Make informed decisions about your writing...

Multimedia Friday | 07/27/2007

Your brain on drugs spoof from Robot Chicken.

Panic! Smoking pot makes you psychotic!!!!

Stop smoking pot immediately! You WILL go CRAZY!!! Panic! The study by Zammit and colleagues, published in the medical journal the Lancet, reanalyzed data from seven long-term studies on psychotic illnesses and marijuana involving 61,000 participants. The researchers filtered out about 60 factors, such as preexisting mental illness and the...

Multimedia Friday 06/07/07

Vintage mental health film The Empty Life.

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