HOW DID I GET HERE I AM NOT GOOD WITH COMPUTER

Magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.

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[Miller, Tybur, & Jordan, 2007](http://njr.tumblr.com/post/46393769737/can-men-detect-ovulation)

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In contrast to our closest cousin, the chimpanzee, humans appear at first to lack cues of impending ovulation that would mark the fertile period in which a female can become pregnant. Consequently, that ovulation is “concealed” in women has long been the consensus among scientists studying human mating. A recent series of studies shows, however, that there are discernible cues of fertility in women’s social behaviors, body scents, voices, and, possibly, aspects of physical beauty. Some of these changes are subtle, but others are strikingly large (we report effect sizes ranging from small, d = 0.12 to large, d = 1.20). Moreover, emerging evidence suggests that women’s male partners may adaptively shift their behavior in response to cues of approaching ovulation. These results have far-reaching implications for understanding fluctuations in attraction, conflict, and relationship dynamics.

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"I am very confident that this is the only comic book about [Gary Bernhardt's](https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/) approach to writing software which features [Alan Turing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing) beating the crap out of a small woodland animal with a big blue dildo." -- [Giles Bowkett](http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/)

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In fifteen seconds, everyone will be checking their phones to see if they're famous yet.

Andy Warhol (zombie)

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'Now...this' is commonly used on radio and television newscasts to indicate that what one has just heard or seen has no relevance to what one is about to hear or see, or possibly to anything one is ever likely to hear or see. The phrase is a means of acknowledging the fact that the world as mapped by the speeded-up electronic media has no order or meaning and is not to be taken seriously. There is no murder so brutal, no earthquake so devastating, no political blunder so costly--for that matter, no ball score so tantalizing or weather report so threatening--that it cannot be erased from our minds by a newscaster saying, "Now...this." The newscaster means that you have thought long enough on the previous matter (approximately forty-five seconds), that you must not be morbidly preoccupied with it (let us say, for ninety seconds), and that you must now give your attention to another fragment of news or a commercial."

Neil Postman in *Amusing Ourselves to Death*, a book written when it was conceivable that people might think about things for as much as forty-five seconds instead of just scrolling to the next thing in their dash, as you're about to do.

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What mischief do not those pictures of prodigious dimension do that the boys make upon the staircases and galleries of the royal houses? They give the ladies a cruel contempt of our natural furniture.

Montaigne

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Abstract: Human collective behavior can vary from calm to panicked depending on social context. Using videos publicly available online, we study the highly energized collective motion of attendees at heavy metal concerts. We find these extreme social gatherings generate similarly extreme behaviors: a disordered gas-like state called a mosh pit and an ordered vortex-like state called a circle pit. Both phenomena are reproduced in flocking simulations demonstrating that human collective behavior is consistent with the predictions of simplified models.

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Nobody likes being alone, and Japanese researchers from Yamagata University are developing a robot to make sure you’ll never have to be alone again: the MH-2 wearable miniature humanoid lives on your shoulder and can be remotely inhabited by your friends from anywhere in the world.

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The local news has been getting a lot of mileage out of the IKEA meatball story.

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I think this is a good place to stop.

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In this underwater photo taken on Jan. 13 and released by the Italian Coast Guard Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 a view of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, after it ran aground near the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. Italian rescue officials say a passenger's body has been found in the wreckage of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, raising to six the number of confirmed dead in the disaster. Sixteen people remain unaccounted-for. (Italian Coast Guard) (via cryptome)

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(via FFFFOUND! | Agence eureka)

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Rescue on the ice by Bernt Balchen, 1942 (via, article)