http://www.fixingtheplanet.com/one-weeks-worth-food-around-our-planet

This is so interesting.

I believe that psych studies are generally rife with problems, but this made me laugh:

Jokes about female drivers and dumb blondes may be told in good fun, but they can promote discrimination against women, researchers say.

LOL. No shit.

What one of the researchers is quoted as saying clarifies the above statement:

"We believe this shows ( Read more... )

OK, I take back my last post, the major cable news networks covered the events in Pakistan later on in the day (they were playing reruns of primetime stuff at that time... is it so much to ask for a 24/7 news network though?). But the 'news' about Paris Hilton and how male mice are attracted to her was kind of disgusting. It was about how ( Read more... )

Musharraf put Bhutto under house arrest before she was supposed to lead a rally protesting against the state of emergency... and CNN is interviewing Dr. Phil about the appropriateness of 'God' versus 'Dog' (I think, I didn't stay tuned in long enough), FoxNEWS is talking about OJ Simpson, and MSNBC is talking about Paris Hilton's sexiness as ( Read more... )

So I wear glasses (I only occasionally wear contacts nowadays, though I'm aiming to wear them more frequently; the weather is just humid enough, too). But yeah, I wear glasses almost daily. And I have these tan spots on the sides of my nose where the glasses rest. So when I'm not wearing my glasses, you can see the uneven skin tone ( Read more... )

RE: tonight's episode of Heroes

Of course they make Sylar, the psycopathic serial heroes-killer, be from Queens. His mother asks him, "Why would you want to come back to Queens?!"

oh well. at least my boro is getting some recognition. (Spiderman, Ugly Betty, and now this)

why couldn't they have made him be from brooklyn though. jeez.

oh man i never understood the appeal of death cab for cutie until now. it's appropriately depressing music. especially "soul meets body"

if there is a country in the world where there has been a female head of state, or a female head of government (I'm talking post-WWII era), and yet women in that same country don't have the legal right to vote?

ok gonna break my vow to not post on lj too often just to say that Whale Rider is a REALLY FUCKING GOOD MOVIE. wow. now i see what all the hullabaloo was about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Lgvfh-rB8

Hahahahaha. "I've been so caught up in personal relationships that I've forgotten how to practice medicine!"