Sketchy Science
rskloot | May 3, 2009
Yes, that's right folks, the end of the world is near, but at least we won't look silly wearing our N95 respirator masks. No. Thanks to Flu Fashion Respirators, we can now avoid swine flu and other plagues while looking like ... bandits from cheesy western movies! Or ... better yet ... hippie bandits! And we can even get designer swine flu respirator masks for the family dog (never mind that dogs can't get the swine flu -- we wouldn't want them to feel left out). What could possibly go better with an over-hyped pandemic threat than
fashion accessories? This press release speaks for…
rskloot | January 15, 2009
Every time I see that someone has joined the Six Degrees of Separation experiment group on Facebook (which now has more than 2.5 million people in it), I think about something I posted about on Culture Dish a few years ago: At this point, pretty much everyone knows the theory of Six Degrees of Separation:
That everyone in the world somehow connected through a chain of six
people. What most people don't know is, the results from the study that supposedly
proved the theory were seriously flawed ...
The phrase "Six Degrees of Separation" was coined by inspired by a study by Stanley Milgram…