Man, I really hate it when I read an awesome science article on the homepage of Pee Wee Herman’s evil eunuch doppelganger. But awesome it is.
In a brilliantly nefarious feat, a doctoral candidate in cognitive neuroscience used his intricate knowledge of How The Mind Works™ in order to gain a lucrative advantage on the […]

We kid, but this is pretty damn amazing. Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert (and occasional reader/commenter of this blog - REPRAZENT!), lost his voice a year and a half ago to a strange neurological condition called spasmodic dysphonia. His doc told him it was incurable. Adams said, “Eff y’all wack-ass bitchez.”

Just because no one […]

This Just In: a Limey psychologist published a “study” claiming conclusive proof that men are, on average, smarter than women. Money quote:
Prof Rushton believes the differences are directly linked to brain size, with other studies showing men having slightly bigger brains than women.
Let the dispassionate, measured debate begin! We’ll be gleefully tracking the idiocy on […]

Mr. Orange has seen plenty of those “average-of-20-faces-equals-an-attractive-face” before, but this one’s particularly striking:

Too bad the article it’s attached to is about a theory that Mr. Orange thinks is complete bunk, seeing as how it postulates that average faces are attractive not so much because they indicate fitness (in the evolutionary sense of that word), […]

Woo hoo! The bros at Mind Hacks tipped us off that today is World Mental Health day. (In Britain, at least.) To celebrate, I’m going to soil myself and propose marriage to a lamppost.
SHUT UP. WE’RE IN LOVE.
Happy World Mental Health Day. Well, sort of happy | Mind Hacks

I’ll admit it - I bought, devoured, and loved the crap out of 2004’s Autism-for-Airports bestseller. Now, after learning that the author is channeling the spirit of an asshole record store clerk, I feel compelled to use it as toilet paper.
“I’m just suspicious that too many people liked it. All the books I really like […]