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purepedantry | April 9, 2009A study discussed over at Live Science confirms what I have always suspected:
An eight-year study of 218 couples found 90 percent experienced a decrease in marital satisfaction once the first child was born.
"Couples who do not have children also show diminished marital quality over time," says Scott Stanley, research professor of psychology at University of Denver. "However, having a baby accelerates the deterioration, especially seen during periods of adjustment right after the birth of a child."
An unrelated study in 2006 of 13,000 people found parents are more depressed than non-parents.…
purepedantry | March 5, 2009This is pretty funny. It is a song honoring the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) that parodies "We are the world." (Check below the fold.)
Hat-tip: TierneyLab
purepedantry | February 10, 2009Check out this hysterical rant by Conan about Boron misreporting (below the fold).
Hat-tip: Wired Science
purepedantry | February 8, 2009Check out this video by reason.tv below the fold.
If you find it hard to achieve and maintain growth, maybe Stimulis is right for you.
purepedantry | February 3, 2009This beat poem is too funny. It is by Tim Minchin in which he describes a dinner party where he confronts a hippie -- recorded live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in December 08.
Sadly NSFW and audio only. Check it out beneath the fold:
My favorite quotes:
"You know what they call alternative medicine that has been proved to work: medicine."
"I am like a rabbit suddenly trapped in the blinding headlights of vacuous c*&$."
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that faith can be preserved."
purepedantry | January 27, 2009Apparently there are still people in the world who have not seen Star Wars. I do not know know what these people have been up to for the past 25 years. My only explanation is that they have been living in caves or are Amish or hate joy...something like that.
But there are actually people like this...and one of them helped produce a video that describes the Star Wars trilogy from the point of view of someone who has not seen it (below the fold). It's pretty funny, so watch the whole thing.
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.
This video also…
purepedantry | January 21, 2009This is fun. You can make a word cloud from a bit of text or a url.
Here is one for this site (click to enlarge):
Presumably the words are sized by frequency. I finding it quite amusing that "drinking" and "research" are the same size. Shows you what I have on the brain.
Hat-tip: Cosmic Variance
purepedantry | January 18, 2009I have two new favorite websites: The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks and Say What?. Both have been cracking me up all weekend.
I think that this one is my favorite at "Blog".
I am just confused. I mean I think that a "No Sex Policy" reflects a more realistic understanding of "Teens" behavior than a No Sex Policy. But what the hell is "Rape" and "Child Molestation"? How are these acts performed ironically?
This is priceless too. The implication, I assume, is that you will be limited to a single puppy for public health purposes.
Are you feeling any "Chest Pain"?
Definitely…
purepedantry | December 17, 2008Not to indulge in too much schadenfreude, but some of these are pretty funny. Foreign Policy compiled the 10 most astonishing wrong predictions for 2008:
"There is a real possibility of creating destructive theoretical anomalies such as miniature black holes, strangelets and deSitter space transitions. These events have the potential to fundamentally alter matter and destroy our planet." -- Walter Wagner, LHCDefense.org
Scientist Walter Wagner, the driving force behind Citizens Against the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is making his bid to be the 21st century's version of Chicken Little for…
purepedantry | December 5, 2008Nicholas Wade (a friend of mine's Dad actually) was on the Colbert Report talking about cloning wooly mammoths. Colbert asks the obvious question: why don't we just staple shag carpeting to an elephant?
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purepedantry | November 28, 2008The economy is rough for everybody. The super-rich are cutting back on their mistress subsidies:
According to a new survey by Prince & Assoc., more than 80% of multimillionaires who had extra-marital lovers planned to cut back on their gifts and allowances. Still, only 12% of the multimillionaire cheaters said they plan to give up on their lovers altogether for financial reasons.
"Rich people are getting hit, and they're all expressing the need to curtail unnecessary spending," said Russ Alan Prince, president of Prince & Assoc., a wealth-research firm based in Connecticut. "Lovers…
purepedantry | October 14, 2008Kara showed me this clip when I was in London, and it is too funny not to share. It is of British comedian James Sherwood detailing his "rules of songwriting."
My favorite: "...but ignores the more psychologically interesting detail that he cannot lie."
purepedantry | September 25, 2008Not really a lot for me to say about the bailout package, but I stumbled on this funny sentence in the NYTimes:
After the overnight drafting efforts on both sides of Capitol Hill -- with pizza on the House side, and Thai food in the Senate -- Democratic officials said they had completed a unified draft of a bill.
1) Did the particular choices of overnight food affect the impressions of the relevant parties about the bill?
2) Do you think the House eats cheaper than the Senate? I mean, there are more of them...
purepedantry | September 17, 2008Apparently, some people think that the name "Large Hadron Collider" fails to capture the terrific grandeur of the device's mission. The Royal Society of Chemistry had a contest to pick an newer, better name, but the winning name proved to be "Halo." No way can they call it that. That name is so copyrighted that angels are getting sued.
Over at Wired Science, they are running a web vote about alternative names for it. Go over and offer your suggestions.
My favorite: "Atom Smasher +5, Holy Avenger" by Gary Gygax
Hmmm...I always thought that Jennifer was a cute name. Hadron colliders are…
purepedantry | September 17, 2008An Israeli town has come up with an aggressive method to fight uncollected dog poop: DNA IDing the "originator."
An Israeli city is using DNA analysis of dog droppings to reward and punish pet owners.
Under a six-month trial programme launched this week, the city of Petah Tikva, a suburb of Tel Aviv, is asking dog owners to take their animal to a municipal veterinarian, who then swabs its mouth and collects DNA.
The city will use the DNA database it is building to match faeces to a registered dog and identify its owner.
I am as disgusted with the stray poop as the next guy, but this seems…
purepedantry | September 10, 2008Now -- via this useful website -- you can check whether the activation of the Large Hadron has destroyed the Earth.
Go ahead...click it...you know you want to...
purepedantry | September 6, 2008OMG! This is the best commercial ever.
Check out this commercial for epMotion automated pippeting machines by Eppendorf.
Who says that pipette commercials can't be funny...and strangely sexual. And like many drug commercials, the actual function of the product seems to be largely irrelevant.
purepedantry | September 2, 2008Too good.
What do atheists yell during sex? Stephen Colbert asks Lori Lippman Brown, director of Secular Coalition for America.
purepedantry | September 2, 2008In honor of the opening of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Michigan State University graduate student Kate McAlpine has an LHC rap on YouTube. The best part: the science is dead on.
Hat-tip: NPR