January 2012
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My Newest Diversion
Nootropics
also referred to as smart drugs, memory enhancers, cognitive enhancers, and intelligence enhancers, are drugs, supplements, nutraceuticals, and functional foods that improve mental functions such as cognition, memory, intelligence, motivation, attention, and concentration. Nootropics are thought to work by altering the availability of the brain’s supply of neurochemicals...
D-Link Makes my Dreams Come True →
The Cloud Camera 5000 is a 720p internet-connected surveillance camera with a motorized pan and tilt base. You can access and control the device from the company’s mydlink: a web-based interface that lets you set motion-sensor preferences to trigger recording and email alerts when it spots someone reaching for the cookie jar you’ve left on top of the refrigerator.
Finally, a way...
Why doesn’t drinking wine really feel like drinking? This stuff is like candy water and its Mondayyyyyy.
Being an adult is fuuuun.
Why We Lie →
Trivers calls deceit a “deep feature” of life, even a necessity, given genes’ brutal struggle to prevail. Anglerfish lure prey by dangling “bait” in front of their jaws, edible butterflies deter predators by adopting the coloring of poisonous species. Possums play possum, cowbirds and cuckoos avoid the hassle of raising offspring by laying their eggs in other birds’ nests. Even viruses and...
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Met a girl
Met a girl on New Year’s Eve, turns out she’s my neighbor. We get along pretty well, but she doesn’t have a facebook, and she’s 30. Something about the combination of the two makes me very wary. WHAT IS SHE HIDING?
Also, I didn’t know she was 30 when I initially started talking to her - but now that I do I’m beginning to feel like it’s weird. Not that all...
“The early 1990s witnessed the dawn of “hookup culture” at universities, as...”
– The Atlantic Magazine - All The Single Ladies
All The Single Ladies - An Article on Dating,... →
The implications are extraordinary. If, in all sectors of society, women are on the ascent, and if gender parity is actually within reach, this means that a marriage regime based on men’s overwhelming economic dominance may be passing into extinction. As long as women were denied the financial and educational opportunities of men, it behooved them to “marry up”—how else would they improve their...
