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alcohol - its side effects (pics)

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:07:45 GMT

clipped by: boozich
clipper's remarks: alcohol = cheapest drug on earth

Clip Source: www.linkinn.com

After 6 beers

After 2 glasses of wine

After 2 bottles of wine - Shared of course

After too many margaritas

After 3 Kamikazes

After 1 large purple haze

After 6 cocktails

After 1 bottle of tequila

After 7 rum & cokes

Tags: funny, animal, pictures

Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:54:44 GMT

clipped by: Newfman
clipper's remarks: Descriptions of all 10 experiments at the site

Clip Source: www.spring.org.uk

"I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?" --Philip Zimbardo

Like eminent social psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo, I'm also obsessed with why we do dumb or irrational things. The answer quite often is because of other people - something social psychologists have comprehensively shown.

Over the past few months I've been describing 10 of the most influential social psychology studies. Each one tells a unique, insightful story relevant to all our lives, every day.

1. The Halo Effect: When Your Own Mind is a Mystery

2. How and Why We Lie to Ourselves: Cognitive Dissonance

3. War, Peace and the Role of Power in Sherif's Robbers Cave Experiment

4. Our Dark Hearts: The Stanford Prison Experiment

5. Just Following Orders? Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiment

Tags: psychology

Representations of the Universe - Amazing Pictures

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:47:20 GMT

clipped by: constantskeptic
clipper's remarks: How we view our universe is important for the future of mankind....

Clip Source: www.abovetopsecret.com

Here is a pic of a Tibetan sand mandala which is often used to represent the Universe as well.

Even the Mayan calendar

Could these all somehow be related???

Tags: pictures, universe, mandela, mayan, amazing

It's Only a Theory!!!!!

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:13:32 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: Link to the original if you think any of the clip is true. And please link to the original if you feel compelled to post creationist drivel in the comments. This is a public service clip so you don't have to make a fool of yourself and post a comment telling the world how you believe Jesus told you evolution was ungodly.

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense

Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments don't hold up

1. Evolution is only a theory. It is not a fact or a scientific law.

2. Natural selection is based on circular reasoning: the fittest are those who survive, and those who survive are deemed fittest.

3. Evolution is unscientific, because it is not testable or falsifiable. It makes claims about events that were not observed and can never be re-created.

4. Increasingly, scientists doubt the truth of evolution.

5. The disagreements among even evolutionary biologists show how little solid science supports evolution.

6. If humans descended from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?

7. Evolution cannot explain how life first appeared on earth.

8. Mathematically, it is inconceivable that anything as complex as a protein, let alone a living cell or a human, could spring up by chance.

Tags: evolution, science, creationism, id

Disintegration of Love in Western Society

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:15:47 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: www.philosophicalsociety.com

Man's happiness today consists in 'having fun.' Having fun lies in the satisfaction of consuming and 'taking in' commodities, sights, food, drinks, cigarettes, people, lectures, books, movies -- all are consumed, swallowed. The world is one great object for our appetite, a big apple, a big bottle, a big breast; we are the sucklers, the eternally expectant ones, the hopeful ones -- and the eternally disappointed ones.

-- Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

"Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments. He (or she) looks at people in a similar way. For the man an attractive girl -- and for the woman an attractive man -- are the prizes they are after. 'Attractive' usually means a nice package of qualities which are popular and sought after on the personality market.

Tags: fromm, love, production-consumption ccycle, cultural values, self-other

All in praise of a (mugof) coffee!!!! :-))

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:44:08 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: wow...all in praise of coffee! (mugof....has plainly been added by me )

Clip Source: www.michaelhyatt.com

“This coffee falls into your stomach . . . sparks shoot all the way up to the brain. From that moment on, everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination’s orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink—for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.”

–Honore de Balzac

Tags: mugofcoffee, coffee, energy, drink, happy, workdone.

Emotions are Contagious

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:55:01 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Explains a lot.

Clip Source: findarticles.com

Studies show that individuals and groups "catch" both positive and negative emotions from others.

Primitive emotional contagion

is the automatic absorption of another's affective state, often with no conscious awareness of the process. The precise mechanism underlying emotional contagion is a subject of ongoing study.

the first step in emotional contagion is unconscious physiological mimicry. Our tendency spontaneously to mimic others' facial expressions, body language, speech patterns, and vocal tones is well documented.

the next step

fferent feedback: the mechanism by which we feel emotions because our bodies display them. This notion runs contrary to the common intuition that emotions start inside our selves and then, if we choose to show them (and sometimes even when we do not), display themselves on our physical selves. Instead, through afferent feedback, acting out the physiological markers of certain emotional states actually causes us to feel those emotions.

Tags: emotions, emotional contagion

World`s most beautiful Butt !!

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:10:41 GMT

clipped by: syncopath
clipper's remarks: more intelligent design or not - it is all going bottom up ....

Clip Source: www.spiegel.de

In a world already full of odd competitions and contests -- like Helsinki's sauna championship (more...) and the world beard championships -- it was likely only a matter of time before something this gratuitous came along. But in Munich on Wednesday, the world gathered for the "best butt" competition.

Clip Source: www.spiegel.de

both winners hail from the Balkans. Kristina Dimitrova, 19, of Bulgaria and Romanian Andrei Andrei, 24, each received €10,000 ($14,500), a modeling contract and an insurance policy for their prize-winning posterior.

A panel composed of German models and entertainers took a long, hard look at and judged the derrieres of 46 contestants from 26 countries.

Clip Source: www.spiegel.de

Bulgarian Kristina Dimitrova, 19, whose derriere took top honors

Clip Source: www.spiegel.de

The competition was officially titled "Show me Your Sloggi," after the German underwear company and contest sponsor.

Clip Source: www.spiegel.de

The judges included well known German models and entertainers

Clip Source: www.spiegel.de

Andrei told German news channel N-TV: "I have the ass."

Tags: best bottoms, world contest, balkans winners,

Sadness of U.S. Veterans' Suicides

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:07:32 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: A very touching poem to be read at propeace site

Clip Source: www.propeace.net

In the year 2005 A.D. - 6,240 - U.S. military veterans, violently took their own life, an average of One Hundred and Twenty a week, for each and every one of the 52 weeks, as the number continues to grow, very few in power desire you - to*know, that many times more of our children have died due to a poorly run, under funded, weakly staffed military mental health system than by the hands of the supposed enemy.

Ghost*Warrior

Tags: veterans, suicides, poem, bruce larson moore

'Time-sharing' Key to Evolutionary Mystery

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:18:01 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: www.physorg.com

'Time-sharing' tropical birds key to evolutionary mystery

Whereas most birds are sole proprietors of their nests, some tropical species “time share” together – a discovery that helps clear up a 150-year-old evolutionary mystery, says Queen’s University Biology professor Vicki Friesen.

The Queen’s-led international study confirms one of Charles Darwin’s more controversial theories – first put forward in 1859 and since disputed by many experts – that different species can arise, unhindered, in the same place. Others believe that a geographic barrier such as a mountain or a river is required to produce two separate species.

Clip Source: www.pnas.org

V. L. Friesen, A. L. Smith, E. Gómez-Díaz, M. Bolton, R. W. Furness, J. González-Solís, and L. R. Monteiro

Sympatric speciation by allochrony in a seabird
PNAS published November 15, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700446104 ( Evolution ) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]

Tags: time, evolution, darwin, species, pdf, literature, article, biology, science