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November 2, 2007
Check out this sweet sweet purse made to resemble a brain:
I think it's an obvious idea since brains combined with anything is sweet, but you might wonder about who the heck came up with this idea:
Known for stretching the fashion limits with his avant garde design for the label Undercover, Jun…
October 31, 2007
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...
October 31, 2007
Ahh Halloween - when neuroscientists find all sorts of fake brains for sale and recipes to create them. This is our yearly reposting of the greatest brain recipe of all time.
This recipe was inspired by the one Alton Brown did a few years back. I liked the idea but wasn't thrilled with the recipe…
October 24, 2007
Pneumatic Anatomica by ~freeny on deviantART
I really like how the hemispheres of the brain are forced to be especially separated by the physical structure of the balloon dog. I wonder if there are any behavioral implications?
-via boingboing- and here's the original.
The artist says this:…
October 12, 2007
It will only take you two clicks to take care of this one (and you could even do it from work, home, and the coffee shop!). Shelley, from Retrospectacle, needs your help to win a $10,000 blogging scholarship. Just think she could pay off her student loans and maybe even have a couple bucks left…
October 11, 2007
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Via Neatorama
October 8, 2007
Just because Chimps are Funny:
And no bitching about my use of the word monkey! Via Neatorama
October 8, 2007
The Nobel Prize in Medicine has gone to Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies, and Sir Martin J. Evans for inventing a technique called Gene Targeting.
According to the NYTimes:
The three scientists were honored for a technique called gene targeting, which lets scientists inactivate or modify…
October 6, 2007
Music education in the United States has typically been one of the first thing to be cut when it comes to balancing the budget. This is a horrible shame since music is one of those things (above any of the other arts) that has a wide ranging effect on peoples intellectual achievement. One of the…
October 5, 2007
We got an exciting new banner today from Len the creator of Monster-by-Mail! Head over to his website for some absolutely phenomenal pieces of monster art! (Ohh... and make sure you buy stuff or order your own monster.
Len's banner is now going to randomly rotate with our wonderful old banner done…
October 5, 2007
It's that time of year again when the most exciting set of awards for us here at Omni Brain are announced. If you don't know what the Ig Nobels are you're missing out on a very important part of science! According to some article at MSNBC "The annual no-rules awards ceremony, where flying paper…
October 5, 2007
Have you ever wanted a pre-frontal lobotomy?! I know I have!
Just think, by severing connections to your pre-frontal cortex (or just destroying the whole darn thing instead) you can have drastic personality changes! You could even skip that and go straight to mental retardation! Of course we're…
September 28, 2007
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…
September 28, 2007
Ok... maybe not for real reals but there are some brain eating amoebas taking over the world. Ok maybe they're not taking over the world but they really (for real this time!) have killed a few people.
According to the AP:
A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks…
September 25, 2007
From the official website:
Hypochondriacs have long had to satisfy their needs for self-diagnosis with medical reference materials written for the masses, but this revolutionary book is dedicated entirely to the hypochondriac's unique perspective on health. The world's worst maladies,…
September 24, 2007
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Can you solve this problem?
Given a human being with an inoperable stomach tumor, and lasers which destroy organic tissue at sufficient intensity, how can one cure the person with these lasers and, at the same time, avoid…
September 20, 2007
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-
September 19, 2007
I think you are. It seems that many fewer people are washing their hands after using the toilet than only a couple years ago. Not only that... people lie about it. Yes you reader - I'm calling you out! I'll bet you don't wash your grimy little hands.
Here's some of the details about this very…
September 17, 2007
I have a project that I could use your help on. Yes... you!
If that didn't get you excited I'm not sure what will ;)
Here's the essentials from the wiki:
Welcome to the Help Steve get his Ph.D. Wiki
This project aims to collect as many distinct scene gists as possible (as a first step - the later…
September 17, 2007
A ground breaking new study from Florida State University has determined that we look at attractive people! Who woulda thought!
But really:
In a series of three experiments, Maner and his colleagues found that the study participants, all heterosexual men and women, fixated on highly attractive…
September 14, 2007
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 Seinfeld, David…
September 14, 2007
Since it's short.... here's the entire snipit from The Onion:
BETHESDA, MD--After an extensive six-month study using an electroencephalogram and a finger, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered the section of the human brain that responds unfavorably to poking.
"We found a…
September 12, 2007
Congratulations Russia on your great new bomb that is nicknamed the "dad of all bombs" and is four times more powerful than the U.S. "mother of all bombs."
"The tests have shown that the new air-delivered ordnance is comparable to a nuclear weapon in its efficiency and capability," said Col.-Gen…
September 11, 2007
A group funded by the Royal College of art has created an ice cream dispenser named Dr. Whippy. The good doctor will dispense a prescription for ice cream if you sound sufficiently miserable. It is based on a voice-stress analysis of various answers to questions it asks. Check it out, the more…
September 11, 2007
Head over to Mind Hacks for more MRI madness! There you will read about the many examples of all the stupid shit people brought into the room with a big freakin' magnet and ended up flying across the room (and sometimes tragically killing someone). Here at Omni Brain we figured we'd just give you…
September 10, 2007
A torture manual created by psychologists in the 1950s entitled The Manipulation of Human Behavior is freely available online. Included are these scary sounding chapters:
1 The Physiological State of the Interrogation Subject
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2 The Effects…
September 10, 2007
According to MSNBC:
A small number of companies have linked health factors to what employees pay for benefits, but the practice is expected to grow now that some federal rules have been finalized, spelling out what's allowed by law. Employee advocates worry that other anti-discrimination laws such…
September 10, 2007
I know why I pee on myself (It usually involves wind or alcohol...or both) but I've always wondered why monkeys do it as well. Ok, I lie, I had no idea that monkeys (yeah yeah, I know it's a chimp but monkey is a more fun word) peed on themselves... well, besides this one.
According to News @…
September 7, 2007
A boingboing reader visited Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus recently and discovered some absolutely crazy dessert delivery devices... Clown and Horse Brains!
If anyone happens to take their kids to Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus we here at Omni Brain would be…