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I half expected this short film to turn into a bizarro version of Planet of the Apes. I wanted this aged space chimp to land on an irradiated Earth, thousands of years after his departure (due to the temporal demands of general relativity) and scream to the heavens in chimp language, “You blew it all up, you bastards!”
The Greatest American Five Fingers, The Teabag Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree for Rand Paul, We Like Ice Cream Because It’s ICE CREAM!, What if We Just Lightly Sear Them?, Lakers Fail at Immigration, Invading Arizona for Fun, Profit, and Golf Courses, Greg Roots For the Insurance Company to Win the Bet, and the BuddhaFather.
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Fascinating video in which Neurobiologist Dr. Robert Sapolsky explains the origins and effects of the parasite which causes Toxoplasmosis. Formerly discussed in Mep Report 62, Toxoplasmosis is the highly common stomach parasite that was believed to be asymptomatic in humans until it was discovered that it subtly changes people’s behavior, especially towards their willingness to put themselves at risk.
While I’m always susceptible to any video that has been auto-tuned, this one, in particular, strikes a chord.
It seems inevitable that our species’ faculties of curiosity and a sense of manifest destiny will lead us to settle off of Earth eventually. However, the longer we wait to plant the seed of humanity elsewhere, the longer we will have all of our eggs in one basket. And that basket is an increasingly dangerous one to linger in…
Greatness: Bought or Bred?, Tiger’s Scruples vs. Big Mac’s Deltoids, Philandering Ad Campaigns, Glorifying the A-Political, and Uplifting the Downtrodden One Category at a Time.
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And here is the proof. I realize that there is no special significance to this diagram given the arbitrariness of English, and the fact that pi is a Greek character, but still, a worthy effort.
This diagram reminds me of the time I did a Fibonacci derivative of the Fibonacci sequence and was left with numbers which corresponded to letters that were an anagram of “magic hoax.” Think some of us are trying a little bit too desperately to find meaning amongst the nothingness? Pi is an irrational number, they say, but its got nothing on human beings.
Link via the Puzzler at ChicagoNow
The Mep that Neither Begins nor Ends; How Improv Can Either Save the World or Destroy it; Murderous Shepherds and Other Little Known Cultural Legacies; Gladwell’s Advocate; Privacy – Destroyer of all Things; and Why Asians are Great at Math (but Terrible at Piloting).
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Last week, an upstart, unknown, non-publicly traded corporation decided to forego all of that pulling-congressional-strings-behind-closed-doors business and take the reins themselves. And so, Murray Hill Incorporated has filed to run as a Rebublican candidate in Maryland’s eigth Congressional District.
I, for one, would like to welcome our new Corporate Overlords and offer them any help my flawed human faculties can offer.
Big Fat Whale has created a terrific portrayal of the absurdity of corporate personhood.
