Posted by spooneybarger Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:57:00 GMT
Authorities in Ohio say a man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool. Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, say when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4, they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower.
Posted by spooneybarger Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:44:00 GMT
A brain-scanning study of people making financial choices suggests that when given expert advice, the decision-making parts of our brains often shut down.The problem with this, of course, is that the advice may not be good.
“When the expert’s advice made the least sense, that’s where we could see the behavioral effect,” said study co-author Greg Berns, an Emory University neuroscientist. “It’s as if people weren’t using their own internal value mechanisms.”
Posted by spooneybarger Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:44:00 GMT
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:38:00 GMT
I’m not feeling witty today… just read the damn article…
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:22:00 GMT
that is right, no cute statement…
Posted by spooneybarger Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:44:00 GMT
In recent years, it has become fashionable for a growing number of Swiss and some foreigners to wander in the Alps clad in little more than hiking shoes and sun screen. Last summer, the number of nude hikers increased to such an extent that the hills often seemed alive with the sound of everything but the swish of trousers.
Posted by spooneybarger Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:26:00 GMT
Scientists have created a strain of the human AIDS virus able to infect and multiply in monkeys in a step toward testing future vaccines in monkeys before trying them in people, according to a new study.