Wailing Into The Void

Another example of marketing nonsense disguised as science.

(via Andrew Sullivan)

Ah, the collective wisdom of the internets.

Princeton neurosciene professor Sam Wang has a fascinating post that helps explain how so many voters can remain undecided, even in an election where the contrasts between candidates are exceptionally sharp.

Why are you preventing me from visiting some of my favorite sites on the interwebs? Does nobody in your QA department test against the obscure IE browser?

A recent study on taste perceptions and product preferences suggests that what we like to eat may say a lot more about us than we realize.

I’m squirting neurotransmiters into your brain. Well, not really, but it sounds like it would be a lot of fun if I could actually do it.

I ought to be used to seeing things that aren’t really there by now, but I still got a good kick out of this.