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Sex I.D. - Find out how you mind works.

Desafinada — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:58:56 GMT

Some researchers say that men can have 'women's brains' and that women can think more like men. * Get a brain sex profile and find out if you think like a man or a woman. * See if you can gaze into someone's eyes and know what they're thinking. * Find out why scientists are interested in the length of your fingers. * See how your results relate to theories about brain sex.

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CERN & Internet 3.0 | The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond

Desafinada — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:46:56 GMT

CERN & Internet 3.0 | The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond

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Avatrian: Our Blogs: Fast Forward: What the new CERN

Desafinada — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:46:39 GMT

Avatrian: Our Blogs: Fast Forward: What the new CERN

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Big Bang Day - BBC - Radio 4

Desafinada — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:38:51 GMT

Big Bang Day - BBC - Radio 4

Scientists have hailed a successful switch-on for an enormous experiment which will recreate the conditions a few moments after the Big Bang.Radio 4 joins CERN on 10 September 2008 as scientists attempt to discover more about the origins of the Universe by recreating the aftermath of the Big Bang.

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German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper

Desafinada — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:37:03 GMT

German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper

A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.

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Zimbabwe bank issues $10million bill - but it won't even buy you a hamburger in Harare

Desafinada — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:30:32 GMT

Zimbabwe bank issues $10million bill - but it won't even buy you a hamburger in Harare

Zimbabwe faces the world's highest official inflation of an estimated 25,000 per cent. Independent financial institutions say real inflation is closer to 150,000 per cent.

Tags: zimbabwe, inflation, 10 million dollar note, cash shortage

The SPT (Shaggy Pun Test)

Desafinada — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:59:20 GMT

The SPT (Shaggy Pun Test)

Extremely Smart Humor - It happens to all of us. You're sitting with a group of friends, and all of a sudden you are overwhelmed by the urge to tell a long, somewhat improbable story that ends with a pun. Loud groans are made, and you are pelted with pillows, cushions, paper, garbage, and anything else that comes to hand. Why does this happen, and why do certain people seem to be more likely to be stricken with this dread disease? Dubbed SPS (Shaggy Pun Syndrome) by prominent psychologists, this illness has baffled scientists. What causes it — love of groaning sounds, subconscious desires to be hit with loose objects in the room, or some deeper cause, such as becoming fixated at the silly phase? Whatever the cause, SPS can become a serious mental illness, and if unchecked in its early phases, can result in minor injury (from beatings), major injury (from worse beatings), and even death (from still worse beatings).Don't despair — treatment is becoming available, ranging from oral counseling to gags to tongue removal. As an early warning device, the SPT (Shaggy Pun Test) has been developed, based on the idea that retention of puns can lead to SPS. The SPT is a collection of "punch lines" from said stories. Recognition of more than a critical number of these punch lines can indicate serious potential for SPS. If caught early enough it is hoped that the puns maybe removed by surgical means.To take the SPT, merely make an X beside each punch line that you either remember the story that goes with it, or that you can easily build a story to fit. Remember, a score of 100 percent is not necessarily desirable!

Tags: shaggy, pun, humor

Reader's Digest- Heartwarming Stories

Desafinada — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:40:25 GMT

Reader's Digest- Heartwarming Stories

True stories that will touch your heart.

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What is the True Nature of Reality? - Deepak Chopra

Desafinada — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:11:17 GMT

What is the True Nature of Reality? - Deepak Chopra

So what's the real nature of the world? What's it really like? We can't trust the senses. They give us a very distorted view. They break up that wholeness into a small fragment and we call it reality. We happen to agree about it. We even call it "objective reality" and we have a whole methodology that we call "science" to explore that . If you really understand what science is, then science at least until now has not been a method for exploring the truth. Science has been a method for exploring our current map of what we think the truth is. And the map is not the territory. The territory that we explore is really an extension of the map we have. If we don't have the complete map then we will not explore the territory that is not within the framework of that map

Tags: reality, senses, perception, quantum healing

"My Brilliant Brain"-NatGeo

Desafinada — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:55:00 GMT

"My Brilliant Brain"-NatGeo

Do differences in gender, brain size and brain hemisphere dominance enable individuals to excel beyond their peers? Or, can education and environment help fuel intelligence and enable anyone to become a prodigy, if given the opportunity?

Tags: intelligence, national geographic, my brilliant brain