Can chocolate lower your risk of stroke? Mark My Words: Tone of Voice Changes Affective Word Representations in Memory A New Horned Crocodile from the Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Sites at Olduvai
Author: Robyn
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Feb 24, 2010
Do speedy elephants walk or run? Singing ‘rewires’ damaged brain Review highlights health benefits of flexible working arrangements: Blood pressure, sleep and mental health improve An Ecological Approach to Prospective
Poe Pillow
I finished this project in December but just managed to deliver it to its intended recipients — it was a wedding gift for Ruby Nite and her now-husband — last
Chocolate-mint ice cream
I mentioned this recipe on Facebook and got requests, so here it is. It’s adapted from the KitchenAid ice-cream maker book, but of course any ice-cream maker will work. I
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Feb 17, 2010
My big fat geek wedding: Tears, joy and oxytocin – life – 10 February 2010 – New Scientist
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Feb 10, 2010
Your home is your (dangerous) castle Morality research sheds light on the origins of religion "Tank Tops Are Ok but I Don't Want to See Her Thong": Girls' Engagements With
Best indeed
From Judy Horacek
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Feb 03, 2010
Drinking and Flying: Does Alcohol Consumption Affect the Flight and Echolocation Performance of Phyllostomid Bats? Sweet future: Fluctuating blood glucose levels may affect decision making
The Annual Food Groups Collage
Starting in Senior Kindergarten, it seems to be traditional to send kids home with a badly-photocopied Canada Food Guide and some badly-photocopied grocery store sale flyers and assign a Food
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Jan 27, 2010
Experts stunned by swan ‘divorce’ Moonlight Makes Owls More Chatty New data on how much infection in the first wave of the pandemic Moving through time: Thinking of the past
Yes, Doctor Freud, I think it does go back to my potty-training days
I feel a bit sorry for the writer, who is clearly stuck in potty-training hell with his kid, but this review did make me snort: Safety 1st Jack Potty ($33.65)
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Jan 20, 2010
Should we encourage self-promotion and lies? Physicists tie light in knots WHO prepares to don a hair shirt
For Lisa Woody (RIP)
“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.” –Ian Fleming
Quotation of the Day for January 13, 2010
Quotation of the Day for January 13, 2010 “But the main idea is the first one: hanging on, staying alive. Canadians are forever taking the national pulse like doctors at
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Jan 13, 2010
The fatal attraction of ‘suicide magnets’ Caroline Mala Corbin, “Ceremonial Deism and the Reasonable Religious Outsider†Lessons from the Sea Squirt Oldest Land-Walker Tracks Found–Pushes Back Evolution Negative phys ed
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Jan 06, 2010
Lighting can influence how wine tastes How you remember dance steps depends on culture: I think step to the left, you think step to the east Wake up, women: Sleep
Reasons why the world is an entertaining place
The flip side of yesterday’s post… Rick Mercer lighting into Stephen Harper for proroguing the government while still ostensibly fighting a war for democracy in Afghanistan. Girls and boys have
Reasons why the world is a bad place
People getting all public healthish about Santa. (The BMJ link is clearly in jest, but still, that’s up there with Cookie Monster now going on about cookies as a “sometimes
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Dec 30, 2009
Bird-like dinosaur was ‘venomous’ Mon Dec 21, 2009
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Dec 23, 2009
Physicists disappointed at discovery of dark mattress Fri Dec 18, 2009 Men think their dance moves improve with age Wed Dec 16, 2009