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Orgasms 'at the touch of a button'

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:04:40 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Women around the world are being told they can now have an orgasm at the touch of a button.

The makers of "Slightest Touch" say their device can give women longer, better and more intense orgasms.

They claim their device can trigger an orgasm without touching a woman's genital area.

According to the manufacturers, Slightest Touch works by stimulating the body's sexual nerve pathway.

Women start by drinking an electrolyte sports drink 20 minutes before using the device.

They then apply two white electrode pads inside their ankles.

"The Slightest Touch does not provide an orgasm," said Cherisse Davidson, the company's director of customer support.

"It gently stimulates the sexual nerve pathways taking the woman to a pre-orgasmic plateau where she dangles on the edge of orgasm for as long as she wants.

"From there, gentle stimulation can then effect the orgasm."

"It can be of great benefit to many women," she told BBC News Online.

"I've been using mine for three years and I just love it."

I'll Kick The Shit Out Of You!

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:04:24 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: Every once in a while I meet someone who actually brings transformation instead of doctrine, and why that matters.
You rock on Mas; you are clearly and inspiration for us all.

Clip Source: masbury.wordpress.com

“How could you boys do this to [the bosses] after all they’ve done for you? You should be ashamed of yourselves.

To me, she gave a mildly derogatory “some kind of pastor” talk: “What are you telling these boys? They’re good boys!”

But to Carlos, venom: “Shut up! … I’ll kick the s**t out of you!“

It’s hard to imagine how trapped foreign workers are.

f they want to quit, how will they get home, thousands of miles away? Without English, to whom can they turn for help? They’ll need to go to a city to get a bus. But what city? And without transport, how will they get there?

Perhaps most unexpected was the tenderness of the friendships developed in those hours.

After trading stories down at my place, glimmers of hope remained in my mind, suggesting that God had done something wonderful among us all. I was honored to enjoy it.

The Sound of Sight

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:01:40 GMT

clipped by: Mohir
clipper's remarks: Both groups judged auditory patterns accurately about 85 percent of the time, the researchers report in the August 5 issue of Current Biology. On the visual trials, nonsynesthetes’ judgments fell to nearly chance levels, a result that corroborates other research showing that most people are better at judging auditory patterns than assessing visual patterns. In contrast, synesthetes—who reported hearing sounds such as beeps or taps in time with the visual signals—distinguished matching from nonmatching rhythms 75 percent of the time.

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

In the peculiar neurological condition known as synesthesia, a person’s senses meld together, so that a synesthete might “hear” colors or “taste” shapes. Now scientists have stumbled on a previously unknown form of synesthesia in which visual flashes or movements trigger perceptions of sound.

California Institute of Technology neuroscientists Melissa Saenz and Christof Koch confirmed the existence of hearing-motion synesthesia, as they dubbed it, by creating a task at which the synesthetes would have an advantage. The researchers presented four self-professed synesthetes and 10 nonsynesthetes with 100 pairs of Morse code–like rhythmic sequences, each composed of either auditory beeps or flashes of white on a black background. The participants judged whether the two sequences in each pair were the same or different.

Tags: synesthesia

Me, Myself and I

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:51:24 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: The generally accepted linguistic explanation for the capital “I” is that it could not stand alone, uncapitalized, as a single letter, which allows for the possibility that early manuscripts and typography played a major role in shaping the national character of English-speaking countries.

So what effect has capitalizing “I” but not “you” — or any other pronoun — had on English speakers? It’s impossible to know, but perhaps our individualistic, workaholic society would be more rooted in community and quality and less focused on money and success if we each thought of ourselves as a small “i” with a sweet little dot. There have, of course, been plenty of rich and dominant cultures throughout history that have gotten by just fine without capitalizing the first-person pronoun or ever writing it down at all. There have also been cultures that committed atrocities even while capitalizing “you.”

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Why do we capitalize the word “I”?

There’s no grammatical reason for doing so, and oddly enough, the majuscule “I” appears only in English.

Consider other languages: some, like Hebrew, Arabic and Devanagari-Hindi, have no capitalized letters, and others, like Japanese, make it possible to drop pronouns altogether.

The supposedly snobbish French leave all personal pronouns in the unassuming lowercase, and Germans respectfully capitalize the formal form of “you” and even, occasionally, the informal form of “you,” but would never capitalize “I.”

Yet in English, the solitary “I” towers above “he,” “she,” “it” and the royal “we.” Even a gathering that includes God might not be addressed with a capitalized “you.”

The word “capitalize” comes from “capital,” meaning “head,” and is associated with importance, material wealth, assets and advantages.

We have capital cities and capital ideas.

We give capital punishment and accrue political, social and financial capital.

Tags: language, english, i

Obama's tire pressure remark - fact vs fiction

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:07:28 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: McCain has responded to Obama's suggestion that we better maintain our cars in ways that promote fuel efficiency with childish (yet somehow effective) criticism.

The amazing thing these days is that facts don't seem to matter. McCain is jumping on Obama with lies and accusations that, in my opinion, discredit his own reputation for running clean, dignified campaigns.

Clip Source: www.time.com

The Bush administration estimates that expanded offshore drilling could increase oil production by 200,000 barrels per day by 2030. We use about 20 million barrels per day, so that would meet about 1% of our demand two decades from now. Meanwhile, efficiency experts say that keeping tires inflated can improve gas mileage by 3%, and regular maintenance can add another 4%. Many drivers already follow their advice, but if everyone else did, we could reduce demand several percentage points immediately. In other words: Obama is right.

Tags: politics, alternative energy, oil, obama, mccain

"Mother Lode" of Gorillas found in Congo

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:19:39 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: 125,000 previously undiscovered western lowland gorillas, hidden in the "Green Abyss." More than was though to be the entire endangered worldwide population. Video at link.

Clip Source: www.npr.org

'Mother Lode' Of Gorillas Found In Congo Forests

Morning Edition, August 5, 2008 · Gorilla experts with the Wildlife Conservation Society say they've made a spectacular find in isolated forests of the Republic of Congo: a large group of previously undiscovered western lowland gorillas. The animals are critically endangered.

Researchers say the first wildlife census of the area has revealed that 125,000 western lowland gorillas are now thriving in the country's northern forests, a number that is twice some estimates for the worldwide population.

One of the main reasons the gorillas have been thriving is obvious to anyone who's ever spent time in the swampy forests that make up what explorers like Richard Ruggiero of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sometimes call the "green abyss."

"These swamp environments are extremely difficult to get along in," Ruggiero said. "There's literally no place to pitch a tent and sleep."

Basically, there aren't many humans here, Ruggiero said.

Tags: nature, environment

Hiatus

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:39:14 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Clip Source: www.themishmash.com

"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen." -Leonardo da Vinci