February 2012
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History's shocking styles →
“High fashion often seems to translate into some rather strange looks: shower cap shoes, Pac-Man helmets and table skirts to name just a few.”
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Philippines seeks US help to counter China →
NexNote: Oooh Dangerous! I move that we become like the “Switzerland” of the Asia-Pacific region.
“The United States and the Philippines will hold combat drills together to counter China’s rising influence in the area.”
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A PCIJ Documentary: Doc Gerry Ortega case barely... →
“EXACTLY ONE YEAR ago today (January 24), a gunman shot dead Palawan environmentalist and broadcast journalist Doc Gerry Ortega along Puerto Princesa’s busy highway. Ortega was one of Palawan’s most popular radio commentators, anchoring the radio program “Ramatak” on DWAR Radio Mindanao Network.”
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Brains Are Automatic, But People Are Free →
“Michael Gazzaniga, one of the world’s leading researchers in cognitive neuroscience, describes the mystery of free will: “If you think about it this way, if you are a Martian coming by earth and looking at all these humans and then looking at how they work you wouldn’t—it would never dawn on you to say, ‘Well, now, this thing needs free will!’ What are you talking about?””
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The modern matchmakers →
“Internet dating sites claim to have brought science to the age-old question of how to pair off successfully. But have they?”
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California Academy Of Sciences Animal Attraction... →
“In a series of 18 aquarium tanks, the exhibit will explore reproduction, from attraction to mating to evolution, using iPads instead of labels, allowing guests to flip through images, videos and loads of information.”
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Whales not slaves because they are not people,... →
“Animal rights group Peta loses case against theme park operator under US constitution’s 13th amendment banning slavery”
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The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual... →
“Sarah Toulalan lauds a look at how carnal crime and punishment gave way to a stress on private consent”
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vanillasskyy asked: Hey there - cool blog you got going! Hope you don't mind if I use some of your content later down the road, great stuff. New follower, can you please follow me back?
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“Ang mga lalake, parang leche flan. Minsan sweet, minsan leche.”
– some fbpost (via jettiblog)
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The faithful must learn to respect those who... →
“Tensions between religion and science will persist unless believers recognise that skepticism is a hallmark of science”
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Living to 100 and beyond: the right genes plus a... →
“In what the researchers describe as the first study of its kind, they analyzed and deciphered the entire genetic codes of a man and a woman who lived past the age of 114. The two so-called supercentenarians had:
DNA that appeared to be very similar to people who did not have long lives
about the same number of gene variants linked to increased disease risk as seen in people from the...
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Modern as Yesterday →
“How the culture evolved from Old to New.”
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What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind? →
“Children today reach puberty earlier and adulthood later. The result: A lot of teenage weirdness. Alison Gopnik on how we might readjust adolescence.”
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The (real) secret to hot sex →
“It has little to do with the body and everything to do with the mind. A sex therapist shares what he’s learned”
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Brain Bugs: Hallucinations, Forgotten Faces, and... →
“For neurologists like Ramachandran, ”the question of how neurons encode meaning and evoke all the semantic associations of an object is the holy grail of neuroscience, whether you are studying memory, perception, art, or consciousness.” Ramachandran studies patients with cognitive abnormalities for two reasons: clinical interest in improving the life of the patient, as well as...
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Temperatures--Not Acid--Could Cook Coral to Death →
“A warming ocean is encouraging the growth of coral in the far Southern Hemisphere, overriding any effects of “acidification”“
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