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[Content Advisory: sex toys and sexual behavior. "NSFW ( Read more... )

A question for the neuroscience geeks ( Read more... )

I maintain the best science fiction these days isn't fiction.

What happens when a treatment for autism abruptly works.

Turns out, being neurotypical isn't quite the unqualified good the neurotypical represent it to autistic people to be.

Oh, ah, PS: there's apparently an apparently effective treatment for autism in trials now.

Welp, this is definitely the weirdest research I've read this month. alexx_kay, knowing my interest in surrealism, pointed me at the 2013 article in Psychological Science, titled "The Common Pain of Surrealism and Death: Acetaminophen Reduces Compensatory Affirmation Following Meaning Threats", by Daniel Randles, Steven J. Heine, and Nathan Santos. What ( Read more... )

Dear lazyweb, I'm busy writing interesting things. Would somebod(y|ies) like to spare me the googling and educate me on what the environmentally optimal approach to garbage bags is ( Read more... )

(h/t Metafilter)

From The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2015 by Kathryn Schulz: Why do your fingers and toes turn all pruney after soaking in water? I’d assumed that the answer was osmosis, until I came across the real explanation in Cynthia Barnett’s “Rain.” Since the nineteen-thirties, Barnett writes, researchers have known that people with ( Read more... )

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Over at Orange Hoodie an enterprising person decided to find out the answer to the question "Will eating a poppy seed muffin cause me to come up positive for a test of opioids?" empirically.

Answer: yes, yes it will. Also a "everything" bagel (which includes poppy seeds).