I’m a neuroscientist who taught rats to drive − their joy suggests how anticipating fun can enrich human life.
Memento Movi, A Cinematic Progress Bar for Life. I am 87.1% through The Blues Brothers, which is a wreck. (via Metafilter)
5 Lab Accidents That Went Horribly Right. The result wasn't what they were trying for, but it was useful anyway.
How Winning an Ig Nobel Prize Can Change a Scientist's Career. (via Damn Interesting)
The ‘Death Mother’: Horror’s most unnerving villain.
This Homemade "Canned" Cranberry Sauce Delivers All the Jiggle But Tons More Flavor.
How an Interracial Marriage Sparked One of the Most Scandalous Trials of the Roaring Twenties.
A Blast from the Past (2015): 10 Fascinating Facts About Spanish Moss.
How does one decide what their life expectancy is?
ReplyDeleteWith my birthday coming up next Wednesday and using the age my mother was when she died (she was 89, almost 90) for life expectancy, I'm 78.7% through 'The Princess Bride' — ""Let me explain... no, there is too much. Let me sum up."
Using my dad's age (he was 77), I'm 90.96% finished — "Did you say 'I do'?" "Well, no, we sort of skipped that part."
-"BB"-
"We want the show! We want the show!"
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday Miss C!
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday, gwdMaine!
ReplyDeleteLike the lab rats, a dose of dopamine will make my tail stand up but no hook at the end.
ReplyDeleteWe always had two dishes of Cranberry on the holiday table. The canned jelled variety, and fresh berries cooked with grated orange peel but not jelled.
In the Rhinelander vs Rhinelander the jury was dead wrong.
The unmitigated gall of Kip Rhinelander fouling the George Jones family bloodline and social status by marrying his daughter Alice.
An obvious ploy to gain control of George Jones properties should not go unpunished.
I believe I saw Spanish Moss in Olympic Park, WA.
xoxoxoBruce