Do men buy porn because of Hot or Not? Is that even what the study examined? The Neurocritic has much to criticize in a recent article suggesting Hot or Not leads to buying Playboy.

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art morphing between each other. Pretty cool eh?!

Vinkint made these cool pillows that look as though a traumatic brain injury victim is lying in a splattered pool of blood. "They're comfy mofos. Arts & crafts FTW, my friends."

Heaven forbid animals drink some soda! and then enjoy it! This is probably the least bothersome form of animal testing out there. Trust me... animals looooove sugar!

Here's the snippet from the NYT article:

Under pressure from animal rights advocates, two soft drink giants, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, have agreed to stop directly financing research that uses animals to test or develop their products, except where such testing is required by law.

Researchers at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sought the assurances after discovering studies financed by the companies that used animals like rats and chimpanzees to test taste perception and, in some cases, to bolster support for promotional health claims.

PepsiCo said that it would stop directly financing animal experiments, including some it had financed through grants given to graduate students through its Gatorade Sports Science Institute.

Hmm...health claims? you mean the animals live longer healthier lives? BAN THE ANIMAL TESTING!!!!

Suicide is so not a laughing matter. No way.

But if you're going to laugh, it surely would be at the Lego Suicides.

Teaching children to better use their working memory in early neurodevelopmental stages may improve their math skills.

[The fact] that executive function, even in children this young, is significantly related to early math performance suggests that if we can improve executive function, we can improve their academic performance," says Adele Diamond, professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience at the University of British Columbia.

[Lead author of a study in Child Development Clancy] Blair says that some tests of executive function can be used as training tools. A "backward digit span" test is a case in point: Person A recites a string of numbers, like 3, 6, 10, and person B has to respond with the same string, only in reverse order: 10, 6, 3. This task requires one to restrain his or her automatic inclination to mimic person A (inhibitory control), but also requires keeping the actual numbers in mind (working memory).

Read more at Scientific American. Also plan dinner and count backward from 100 by sevens at the same time. And then, time to play at recess?

Teaching children to better use their working memory in early neurodevelopmental stages may improve their math skills.

[The fact] that executive function, even in children this young, is significantly related to early math performance suggests that if we can improve executive function, we can improve their academic performance," says Adele Diamond, professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience at the University of British Columbia.

[Lead author of a study in Child Development Clancy] Blair says that some tests of executive function can be used as training tools. A "backward digit span" test is a case in point: Person A recites a string of numbers, like 3, 6, 10, and person B has to respond with the same string, only in reverse order: 10, 6, 3. This task requires one to restrain his or her automatic inclination to mimic person A (inhibitory control), but also requires keeping the actual numbers in mind (working memory).

Read more at Scientific American. Also plan dinner and count backward from 100 by sevens at the same time. And then, time to play at recess?