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The Unburdened Mind. Roughly one in every 100 men (or 300 women) is a psychopath. Do you know one?
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10 Traits To Be Perceived As A Winner! Alex Shalman put down in words exactly what I want to teach my children.
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14 really cool research facilities around the world. Posted in three parts, because everyone has their own favorite to suggest.
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10 Accidental Product Discoveries. Always keep your mind open when you are experimenting, because one of your mistakes may prove to be very useful for another purpose.
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The Best Way to Enter a Car. Want to impress your friends? Pull off this little maneuver and you will.
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Using a mobile phone before going to bed could stop you getting a decent night’s sleep. The wrong number calls at 2AM don’t help, either.
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If flatulence jokes don’t offend you, this clip from a Norwegian TV show will have you giggling like a little kid. I laughed til I hurt!
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Image Toasters. What do you want your toast to say today?
My God, I’d be the biggest thing on campus if I could enter my car that way. Uhh…so…tempted.
posted by Jake Le Master on 1-22-2008 at 6:55 am
Some fascinating links this morning.
Now I am convinced that my first real boyfriend was truly a psychopath.
posted by beth on 1-22-2008 at 10:41 am
Thank you very much for linking up my article, and I’m honored that you relate to this paradigm and deem it worthy to teach your children.
posted by Alex Shalman on 1-22-2008 at 10:46 am
That car video was amazing…I watched it four times!
posted by Allison on 1-22-2008 at 2:42 pm
It’s funny. I took one of those extensive personality tests when I first entered college. I was basically told I had minor psychopathic tendencies. My job recommendations? Bus driver or Postal worker.
I kid you not.
Since then, I’ve decided those tests are bunk and I’m a happy, suit-wearing business women with psychopathic tendencies.
;p
(The test was probably faulty, given that I thought it was a silly waste of time during my freshman orientation, I wanted to go to lunch, and I just filled in the bubbles making pretty patterns).
Thanks for the links! They were all great!
posted by Stephanie on 1-22-2008 at 6:34 pm
I love the article from Damn Iteresting. I read that blog faithfully, but I hate that it only has a new post about every week or so :( Yet another reason that mental_floss is the shiznit.
posted by adrienne on 1-22-2008 at 7:20 pm
I know a guy who is absolutely a psychopath, but I don’t want to go too far into a story. He is intimidated by (and hates) me because he found out that I’m too smart for him to con and manipulate the way he does with so many people. He and his friends (cohorts?) have caused many problems for me.
posted by Tdave on 1-24-2008 at 3:42 am