Self-serving white guilt
Guilt, stirred up by leftist thinkers, is now de rigueur in the west. But Pascal Bruckner believes our soul-searching is both hypocritical and injurious. Beneath Bruckner’s eloquence is a serious message: we remain prisoners of a white guilt whose victim is its supposed beneficiary. Our guilt, he writes, is actually a means for us to … Read more
Study: Brain Protects Itself When Thinking About Death
Shihui Han of Peking University, China, found activity in brain regions that normally deal with negative emotions and self-awareness are dampened when we process ideas about death. Han and colleagues placed 20 volunteers in functional MRI brain scanners while death-related words, such as graveyard, corpse, behead and slay, flashed up on a screen. Neutral and … Read more
Quasihistorisches Dokument: monochroms Erst-Joint-Aufblasung
Melinda hat gerade eine ziemlich coole Bilderserie veröffentlicht. Es handelt sich um die Dokumentation des ersten Joint-Tests für unser Projekt “Pot Tin God” im April 2009. Link
Semi-historic document: monochrom’s initial joint inflation
Melinda just posted a pretty cool set of images. It’s a documentation of the initial test-inflation of our giant joint “Pot Tin God”, back in April 2009. Link
Earth is a recycling scheme that has been running for a third of the age of the universe
The Earth is a recycling scheme that has been running for a third of the age of the universe. Microbes and plants endlessly pull carbon, nitrogen and oxygen from the atmosphere and pump them back out in different forms. Water evaporates from the oceans, rains down on the land, pours back to the seas. As … Read more
Need An Organ? Find Your Donor Via Facebook!
Apparently Facebook isn’t just for playing MafiaWars anymore. It’s also for finding living unrelated donors to give you their organs. Seriously. The six degrees of separation that we all experience via Facebook makes those who have long been waiting on organ transplant lists feel as though the wait can end if they just reach out … Read more