Source: tibets“Obese 2nd grader” Wat.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57569575/n.y-student-attends-class-remotely-via-robot/
He’s not obese. “He has eosinophilic esophagitis, caused by an allergic white blood cell that grows in his stomach and esophagus.” Typical fail headline by a fail redditor.
This is actually pretty cool.
remember when lil wayne said “real g’s move in silence like lasagna”
that shit fucked me up
and then i realized the “g” in “lasagna” is silent
i was like “damn……”
i brought this line up once and my friend said “yeah wayne go off u ever notice when u eat lasagna its pretty quiet there’s no crunching or chewing” i was like my nigga
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Source: brainfried
Riley calls out popular Pakistani blogger Mehreen for whatever reason. I guess it’s a crime to not like Obama in Riley’s eyes. Also, Mehreen chooses to blog about what she likes to blog about, not what Riley likes to blog about, so that makes her suck too.
It turns out that Pakistani people are so ~privileged~.
But actually, Mehreen is Muslim and has never been to a bar in her life. Ooops. Bonus explanations for why Riley is being an asshat here.
gg
Source: wtfsocialjustice
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Michael and Alan play a practical joke on Daniel during one of their takes. (x)
Oh my fucking God.
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Source: always-rickman
Effort to blame everything but guns for violence begins to turn a bit creepy.
A Connecticut community is to hold an amnesty of violent video games in the wake of last month’s mass shooting in Newtown.
Organisers Southington SOS plan to offer gift certificates in exchange for donated games, which will be burned. The group, a coalition of local organisations, says its actions do not assert that video games were the cause of the killings in nearby Newtown, but argues that violent games and films desensitize children to “acts of violence”.
Except they don’t:
A study by Texas A&M university last year found that exposure to violent games “had neither short-term nor long-term predictive influences on either positive or negative outcomes”. Christopher J Ferguson, one of the report authors, wrote in Time magazine in December that “there is no good evidence that video games or other media contributes, even in a small way, to mass homicides or any other violence among youth”.
Besides, there’s no evidence that Adam Lanza was influenced by video games in any way. Absolutely none. We don’t even know if he was a gamer. This is all a desperate attempt to take the heat off guns by scapegoating First Amendment rights and organizing a 21st century version of book burning. If you want to solve the problem, then the problem is guns. Get cracking.
If you don’t want to solve the problem, then you pull bullshit stunts like this one.
*sigh*
*facepalm*
………..nope
Source: rawstory.com
Source: jtotheizzoeIn an incredible intersection of digital connection and modern neuroscience, over 100,000 people recently took part in the largest test of intelligence and cognitive ability ever undertaken. The results might disprove that there’s any one measure, like IQ, that truly captures the broad range of mental talent seen in the world’s population.
Instead of “IQ” or any one component, it took at least three components to rate someone’s mental performance: Short-term memory, reasoning and verbal acuity.
To make things even more interesting, these three components all seem to map out to separate brain “circuits”. You may excel in one and not in the other two, or be balanced among all three. To put it another way, intelligent people are still intelligent, but now we can appreciate our place on that spectrum with greater depth and color. They even peeled back another layer, using their huge sample size to link performance to certain behaviors. Smokers did poorly on memory and verbal components, while computer gamers did well on memory and reasoning.
Anyone who’s looking knows that there’s variation in people’s cognitive abilities and individual “intelligences”, and trying to score that with one number doesn’t seem to do anyone much good. What sort of talents have we accidentally suppressed by failing to stamp people officially “intelligent”? Who have we discouraged by failing to include their intelligence in the “score”?
On the surface, it comes as no surprise. That in a world full of incredible individuals and unique combinations of passions, knowledge and curiosity… all of them powered by a tangled neural web of unparalleled cognitive complexity, that our “intelligence” would not be well quantified by a single measure. It is difficult to distill a rainbow and still appreciate its colors.
Check out more here, including interviews with the researchers.
