Men like blond bombshells (and women want to look like them)
Humans are naturally polygamous
Most women benefit from polygyny, while most men benefit from monogamy
Most suicide bombers are Muslim
Having sons reduces the likelihood of divorce
Beautiful people have more daughters
What Bill Gates and Paul McCartney have in common with criminals
The midlife crisis is a myth—sort of
It’s natural for politicians to risk everything for an affair (but only if they’re male)
Men sexually harass women because they are not sexist

Full Story: Psychology Today.

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Scientists have used silicon crystals to trap light and slow it down to the lowest speed ever recorded in the material. The breakthrough is a step towards light-based storage for quantum computers.

Researchers at Japanese telco NTT used man-made photonic crystals, which contain nanoscale holes, to achieve the feat. The cavity which controlled the light was less than ten millionths of a metre long.

Full Story: The Register.

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EPISODE 10 :: “Pièce de Résistance”

Frequency distortions make for an unexpected show. Where is the broadcast coming from? What happened to the Alan Moore and Grant Morrison interviews on the nature of magic, love, and the future of hair styles?

Duration :: 00:31:51
Download :: MP3 (29.168MB)

Hosts :: Brenden Simpson, Wu

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1. Sex
2. Chocolate
3. Red wine
4. Marijuana
5. Maggots
6. Sunlight
7. LSD
8. Coffee
9. Anger
10. Beer

Full Story: Live Science.

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A team of researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne (EPFL) has successfully demonstrated, for the first time, that it is possible to control the speed of light � both slowing it down and speeding it up � in an optical fiber, using off-the-shelf instrumentation in normal environmental conditions. Their results, to be published in the August 22 issue of Applied Physics Letters, could have implications that range from optical computing to the fiber-optic telecommunications industry.

(Science Blog, via Discordian Research Technology)

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File this under “everything you know is wrong.” I read a few years ago that the speed of light wasn’t constant, and the main thing I’ve found about it on the web is this story about a group of astronomers who think the speed of light has slown down since the beginnings of time.

But I remember reading an article around summer or fall of 2000 about some scientists that had managed to slow down light in a laboratory setting.
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