Entries by shep

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Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives

Seen on Slashdot: “Scientists from NYU and UCLA report in Nature Neuroscience that the brains of Democrats and Republicans process information differently. This new study finds that the differences are apparent even when the brain processes common information, not just political topics. From the study, liberals were more likely to be accurate and showed more […]

Dirty Acres- The Excitement is Building

Many of you know I am a huge fan of an underground rap group called CunninLynguists. Their last album, A Piece of Strange was pure genius. I loved the album so much, I created (and unfortunately didn’t keep up with) a companion site (whatisapos.com) made up of fan’s insights and thoughts into the album, as […]

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Thoughts on Emo

I was talking to a friend of mine, who shall remain nameless (ok, it was Lisa), about the musical genre emo. She was saying that because a songs lyrics are similar to lyrics to an emo song, then that band is emo. The example she used was Blink 182, saying they were emo because the […]

Best Comment Ever

I was reading an article on Digg about the great-grandson of L. Ron Hubbard speaking out against Scientology on a radio show. I didn’t watch the video but one comment drew my attention. It is quite possibly the best comment ever. It sounds like the short, fat DJ, who keeps calling the guy on the […]