Archive for the ‘the more you know’ Category
Written by OddCulture on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 in inventions, news, phenomena, protests, science, space, technology, the more you know.
Scientists are trying to stop the most powerful experiment ever – saying the black holes it will create could destroy the world. Dubbed by some the Doomsday test, it will be carried out next week in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located 300ft underground near the French-Swiss border. The machine is 17 miles long and cost £4.4billion to create. Read on…
Written by OddCulture on Friday, August 15th, 2008 in Babes, Frisky Friday, TV, advertising, art, culture, marketing, phenomena, science, sex, the more you know.
A recent issue of the Journal of Consumer Research features a paper titled “Bikinis Instigate Generalized Impatience in Intertemporal Choice,” which is a neuroeconomist’s way of saying that men don’t make good decisions while checking out pretty girls in bikinis.
Wow, what a shocker! Science does it again!
Written by OddCulture on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 in China, advertising, culture, fashion, marketing, news, sports, the more you know, travel.
The Spanish Basketball Federation is in trouble for putting up a controversial advertisement that many are calling racist.
Source: NYT:
Spain’s Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting their Chinese hosts by posing for a pre-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures. The advertisement for a [Spanish] courier company, which is an official sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Federation, occupied [...]
Written by OddCulture on Thursday, July 31st, 2008 in Australia, culture, fads, g spot, mature, medical, science, sex, surgeries, the more you know, travel.
From Fox News comes this story out of Australia:
Cosmetic surgery to “rejuvenate” the vagina has been blacklisted by Australian gynecologists who say more women are being injured by the dangerous procedures. Top female sexual health specialists say they are seeing an increase in women with scarring, infections and altered sexual sensations after undergoing vaginal surgery.
Most [...]
Written by OddCulture on Thursday, June 26th, 2008 in India, accidents, culture, the more you know, travel.
Next time you guys complain about traffic in Boston or Chicago or Los Angeles, just try driving around India’s major cities.
Globalization and Venture Capital:
Earlier this week, my optimism about the infrastructure situation in India took a severe beating as I struggled to get to a meeting in downtown Mumbai crawling through what seemed like an [...]
Written by Alyx on Saturday, June 14th, 2008 in Florida, Movies, Music, Orlando, Religion, bizarre, conspiracies, cults, culture, funny video, internetz, the more you know, travel.
June 14, 2008 was, evidently, a protest day across the world for Anonymous against Scientology. (We have pics of an Orlando protest ~ of Epic Fail Guy, of course!) This video - apparently of London’s Scientology presence getting rick rolled - is one of the best things I have ever seen here on the internets. [...]
Source: WSJ
Paris and Lindsay Hacked Again
Pictures of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan from private MySpace profiles can be seen by anyone on the Internet, thanks to a flaw in a system that helps the social-networking site share information with other Web sites.
Byron Ng — a computer technician who earlier this year found a way [...]
Now available for the whole family to enjoy on the Sundance Channel, Green Porno is a series of short films written by, directed by, and starring Isabella Rossellini, which will also air on cell phones. So when you are in line at the post office and see somebody with a cell phone that has [...]
Written by Alyx on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 in animals, the more you know.
From Crayola Creativity Central: Personality Traits for this hue: *earthy* *not at all frivolous* *dislikes showiness* *dependable* *comfortable*
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