Archives for September, 2006
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Monkey see, monkey do. Baby humans and apes both bond with their parents by mimicking facial expressions. Now researchers report in the September issue of PLOS Biology that infant monkeys also get in on the act: for up to 7 days after birth, rhesus macaques will imitate humans smacking their lips, opening their mouths, and [...]
Telephone Telepathy?
Many people have experienced the phenomenon of receiving a telephone call from someone shortly after thinking about them — now a scientist says he…
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Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
How completely adrift are we as a country that we demand to watch movies and TV shows about a war that isn’t even complete? It’s only been 5 years! People are still dying all over the world because of religious wackos and American foreign policy. In the well insulated United States we are making movies [...]
The Artificial Prison of the Human Mind
From Damn Interesting, “In 1971, a study about prisons was funded by the U.S. Navy to try to better understand problems in the Marine Corps.’ prisons. The study was run by a group of researchers at Stanford, led by psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo. The idea was to create a controlled environment in the Stanford halls [...]
Insurance Man 1946
On the afternoon of July 25, 1946, two young married African American couples were lynched at the same time in Monroe, Georgia. They were beaten and their bodies were riddled with bullets by a mob of white men who were also from Monroe. One of the women was seven months pregnant.
A native of Milledgeville, Georgia, [...]
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