The Upside of Depression. The condition is so prevalent that its evolutionary benefit must outweigh the dysfunction, or at least that was so sometime in our history. (via Metafilter)
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Manly Slang from the 19th Century. Shut your bone box, you saucebox, or my bunch of fives will give you a fizzing blinker! (via Boing Boing)
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The ScienceBlogs Pi Day Bake-Off received 35 pie entries, which have been narrowed down to ten finalists. Not only are these “pi pies” decorated in a mathematically clever way, they look scrumptious!
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The hardest logic puzzle ever. Here’s a hint, but I haven’t seen a compete and logical answer yet. (via Neatorama)
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Go ahead and order from the menu -it’s in English. I’ll have the cowboy meat and a rurality salad, thank you.
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This pianist improvises songs for and about the people he sees on Chatroulette. Brief NSFW language.
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The 10 Most Bizarre Athlete Superstitions. Kentucky fans will be pulling out all the stops in the next three weeks in order to jinx Duke.
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“The Upside of Depression. The condition is so prevalent that its evolutionary benefit must outweigh the dysfunction,…”
Or evolution just hasn’t gotten to it yet due to the immense intricasies that make up the human brain. Why do you need to think evolution has to work on your specific timeline? That’s pretty self-centered of you.
posted by Hurricane on 3-18-2010 at 12:15 pm
The logic puzzle is only hard if you overthink it. I saw waaay too many commentors on the linked pages explaining their crazy logic process and sounding silly. Put yourself in the situation and use some common sense techniques. Not SO complicated.
posted by Dan on 3-18-2010 at 12:17 pm
i have an answer for the logic puzzle.
its slightly juvenile but here it is:
you fart and ask them if it smells bad. The knight will say that of course it smells and you will know hes telling the truth. But the knave will smell it and answer no and because the fart really does smell you would know he’s lieing.
I told you it was juvenile
posted by ufluffed on 3-18-2010 at 7:07 pm