Humor
- Proof That Everyone Makes Mistakes.
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Cambridge University Press website mislabels and Astronomy text as an Astrology text. I was looking for open access open source freely downloadable and good textbooks to use in my future Astronomy classes. The City Colleges require a very good text, but ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 16 2014 - 2:51pm
- Christmas bells
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Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jan 6 2016 - 6:39am
- ‘Get A Lovely Bust For Christmas’: 1930s Tips For How To Be A Festive Woman
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Good Needlwork magazine shows you how to get better bosoms. Image: Dave Whatt By Jo Brewis, University of Leicester When my good friend and long-term collaborator Sam Warren was given a pile of women’s magazines from the 1930s by her grandmother Jane Fram ...
Article - The Conversation - Dec 19 2014 - 6:00pm
- Interview with Virginia Woof
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Oh, yes. I absolutely adore meeting with the media, it's my chance to give something back, don't you know, to give aspiring young journalists a paw up, as it were. It's the least I can do. I understand, dear. Of course you feel that way. ...
Blog Post - Jess H. Brewer - Jan 28 2015 - 12:11am
- How To Be Funny: Attack People
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LAUGHTER IS CLOSELY RELATED TO FEAR, RESEARCHERS FIND HONG KONG, March 2, 2015 The surest way to make someone laugh is to attack them, researchers said this week. Humor is rooted in fear, and laughter is a type of screaming. The widespread belief that sur ...
Blog Post - Nury Vittachi - Mar 2 2015 - 12:01am
- Kardashian Lumbar Curvature Index- An Evolutionary Hypothesis
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There are sometimes complaints that modern men only prefer one certain female body type, but we should blame evolution and prehistoric influences, according to a new study. Professor Anthony Ray from the Department of Evolution and Human Behavior at Mack U ...
Article - Cap'n Ron Dagger,... - Apr 1 2015 - 9:52am
- A Foolproof Social Skills Hack
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In my role as lead investigator at the Science of People laboratory complex, people often ask me if those 'social skills hacks' they read about are real. Well, I am here to tell you they are, and I put together a video with my favorite one, show ...
Blog Post - Vanessa Van Edwards - Apr 1 2015 - 10:21am
- Super Collider Finds Evidence We Are Not Alone In The Universe
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The Anti-Proton Collider experiment of the New Jersey Super Collider (NJSC) announced today that we may not be alone in the universe. ...
Article - David Walton - Apr 1 2015 - 10:50pm
- Scientific Research Helps Create First Ice Casino Blueprints
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A recent study undertaken by the Institute of Polar Science has backed plans by Gala Casino to create the first ever Ice Casino. Led by Professor Ross Bight, a renowned figure in the fields of both human and animal behaviour in the Arctic, the research ha ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2015 - 10:50pm
- Offenbach in Athens
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"La belle Hélène" is a beautiful operetta by Jacques Offenbach. Now for the first time it has been translated and performed in Greek in Athens, by a group of very talented singers under the artistic direction of Panagiotis Adam. I saw "Η Ωρά ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 26 2015 - 3:15am