“Originally Tesla wanted to be a poet, but after getting zapped by static electricity from his kitty he was inspired to study the effects of electricity. One could vaguely construe that Tesla’s cat was responsible for the second industrial revolution, which arguably makes it the most awesome cat who ever lived.” — The Oatmeal - Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived (via crookedindifference)
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Chicago Sun-Times: Oral Sex Could Lead to Throat Cancer in Men -
OH COOL, WAY TO GIVE THEM ALL A FUCKING GREAT FUCKING EXCUSE
“No honey, I can’t! I could get cancer. You wouldn’t want me to get cancer?!”
Welp.
giving a lady oral sex is worth dealing with cancer if it came down to it. you would have to chop off my fucking tongue and lips to make me stop.
emphasis mine.
Since this is from HPV, most likely, this is also what causes cervical cancer. So boys should get Gardasil. This is not about oral sex. (This comment is not directed at any of the commentary above. You guys rock.)
Exactly what turnabout said above (emphasis is mine). In fact, even without the threat of cancer, boys should still get the Gardasil HPV vaccine.
Toms’ “buy one, give one” model for shoe sales sounds like a great idea. But does it really alleviate poverty? It depends.
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think on this.: ugh i am an old -
today in class, my professor was talking about the negotiation tactic of “playing a game of chicken” and illustrated it with a film clip. i instantly knew that it was going to be the death-defying tractor clip from footloose, and indeed it was. but while i was tapping my feet and singing along…
Wow. I even feel old now.
by Philip Umbrino
(via)I went to a local Verizon store to have my TV box, for lack of an official term (are they DVR boxes? Receivers? I think receivers) exchanged with a different TV box. The store was no bigger than my bathroom, which is only sort of large because we have a tub from the Taft era.
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the sociologist: You Eat That? -
By RACHEL HERZ l WSJ Jan.28, 2012
Disgust is one of our most basic emotions—the only one that we have to learn—and nothing triggers it more reliably than the strange food of others.
Nattō is a stringy, sticky, slimy, chunky fermented soybean dish that Japanese regularly eat for breakfast….
(Source: The Wall Street Journal)
“The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can’t believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes.” — Stephen Hawking (via crookedindifference)
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