gimme culture

Interesting theory about babies, sucrose and dopamine

“In what is believed to be the largest collection of coins ever excavated from a historical shipwreck, Odyssey Marine Exploration recently recovered over 500,000 silver coins weighing more than 17 tons, hundreds of gold coins, worked gold, and other artifacts from the wreck of a Colonial period shipwreck code-named “Black Swan”, located in an undisclosed location in the Atlantic Ocean.”

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“Students from the College of Art, Science and Engineering’s product design course at the University of Dundee have created six phones to support “intimacy and sensuality”.

They include the Aware, which sends a tingle down your back if a friend is nearby and the Boom Tube, which allows people to make music together.”

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His professor sent him an e-mail the following day:

Dear Michael,

Every year I attempt to boost my students’ final grades by giving them this relatively simple exam consisting of 100 True/False questions from only 3 chapters of material. For the past 20 years that I have taught Intro Communications 101 at this institution I have never once seen someone score below a 65 on this exam. Consequently, your score of a zero is the first in history and ultimately brought the entire class average down a whole 8 points.

There were two possible answer choices: A (True) and B (False). You chose C for all 100 questions in an obvious attempt to get lucky with a least a quarter of the answers. It’s as if you didn’t look at a single question. Unfortunately, this brings your final grade in this class to failing. See you next year!

May God have mercy on your soul.

Sincerely,
Professor William Turner

P.S. If all else fails, go with B from now on. B is the new C

man skies down escalator on London underground.

The authorities want to charge him.

What will the charge be?

update: skier makes the guardian

“Arild is a legend in Norway’s free ski subculture, a “crazy half-communist” who pursues thrills over fame or money, according to Spelmann. “He works four months a year then spends the rest of his time skiing. He really is an excellent skier and he’s done this stuff many times. He’s happy. He just does it.”

her name is helen fisher from rutgers