Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-28-2007
Priests brawl at Jesus' birthplace - CNN.com
Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests attacked each other with brooms and stones inside the Church of the Nativity as long-standing rivalries erupted in violence during holiday cleaning on Thursday.
(tags: religion xmas stupid)
Overcoming Bias: Asch's Conformity Experiment
That we have found the tendency to conformity in our society so strong... is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.
(tags: experiment social blog science)
Snorting a Brain Chemical Could Replace Sleep
In what sounds like a dream for millions of tired coffee drinkers, Darpa-funded scientists might have found a drug that will eliminate sleepiness.
(tags: heath drugs sleep threads strange monkey)
TREASURE BOX
Flash-based puzzle game. It's cute... It's not very hard and it doesn't take long to play. But the style is... interesting.
(tags: computer gaming flash interactive puzzle strange surreal animation)
les machines de nantes - a photoset on Flickr
Strange animal-like devices.
(tags: art strange photo steampunk)
YouTube - 給我吃玉米啦 ! Let me eat some corn! (This is the original)
`This is the original and the other ones are all fake`
(tags: cute kitty video diet corn)
Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2007
Welcome to the first annual Wired News rundown of the year's 10 most important scientific breakthroughs. 2007 was an amazing year for science.
(tags: science media)
Astronomy & Astrophysics
This Letter reports on the detection of two super-Earth planets in the Gl 581 system, which is already known to harbour a hot Neptune.
(tags: astronomy science SF)
Amsterdam's drug police demand right to keep on smoking cannabis - Times Online
Officers in the capital of the Netherlands are in open revolt against a new code of behaviour that orders them to stop taking drugs in their free time.
(tags: europe drugs police)
Caesar's Super Glue still sticking around - 2,000 years later
So far, the German researchers have failed to recreate the Roman superglue.
(tags: history glue roman strange german)
A Green Light for Common Sense - washingtonpost.com
Since September, they've been tearing up the sidewalks, removing curbs and erasing street markers as part of a radical plan to abandon nearly all traffic regulations and force people to rely on common sense and courtesy instead.
(tags: anarchy transportation strange)
Play an Engle Matrix Game
I really need to try this out at some point.
(tags: gaming RPG strange system toread)
Orcinus: In Black and White
Well, now I know where to go to find pictures of modern-looking people standing next to Nazi flags...
(tags: political left blog GOP nazi threads race)