EXCERPT: Too often when we think “women in sci-fi” we think of what used to be called “scream queens,” that is, the actresses who appeared in scores of latter day B pictures running from extraterrestrials on earth or grappling with tentacled creatures on spaceships or what have you. For this survey we want to pay homage not necessarily to the genre regulars (although you’ll find one or two along the way) but to the performers who made the most unusual and in many cases iconic impressions. The following list pays homage not necessarily to the genre regulars, although you will find one or two along the way, but to the performers who made the most unusual, and in many cases iconic, impressions. The following list is not compiled in any particular order. Each woman has contributed enormously to the universe of sci-fi films through their respective roles. Here are ten favorites from the 2000's...
EXCERPT: We see colours, hear sounds and feel textures. Some aspects of the world, it seems, are perceived through a particular sense. Others, like shape, are perceived through more than one sense. But what sense or senses do we use when perceiving time? It is certainly not associated with one particular sense. In fact, it seems odd to say that we see, hear or touch time passing. And indeed, even if all our senses were prevented from functioning for a while, we could still notice the passing of time through the changing pattern of our thought. Perhaps, then, we have a special faculty, distinct from the five senses, for detecting time. Or perhaps, as seems more likely, we notice time through perception of other things. But how?
Time perception raises a number of intriguing puzzles, including what it means to say we perceive time. In this article, we shall explore the various processes through which we are made aware of time, and which influence the way we think time really is. Inevitably, we shall be concerned with the psychology of time perception, but the purpose of the article is to draw out the philosophical issues, and in particular whether and how aspects of our experience can be accommodated within certain metaphysical theories concerning the nature of time and causation.....
EXCERPT: Some animals communicate via pheromones and so it has often been wondered if humans might have a similar innate ability. [...] "These results constitute compelling evidence that a pheromone effect different from normal olfactory perception indeed exists in humans," says Ruhr-Universität Bochum researcher Prof. Dr. Hanns Hatt....
EXCERPT: Finally, some good news for mountain gorillas. The highly endangered apes have been so rare for so long that they have already weathered the initial genetic storms of inbreeding and could face clearer sailing ahead, if conservationists can protect their habitat. [...] High levels of inbreeding increase the odds that an individual will get copies of a harmful mutation from both parents [...] The gorillas were even more inbred than they expected [...] But the team show that both mountain and eastern lowland gorillas actually carry fewer of the most harmful mutations...
EXCERPT: At last, a cure for baldness! Scientists discover how to regrow hair (as long as you're prepared to pull it all out first). Study: When 200 hairs are plucked, up to six times as many grow back. For technique to work, all of the hairs must be taken from one small patch. Theory is that if enough hairs are forcibly removed from one area, it triggers a distress signal - and extra hair is grown to compensate....
EXCERPT: According to the giant impact hypothesis (sometimes called the Big Splash, or the Theia Impact), our Moon was created 4.5 billion years ago in a catastrophic collision between Earth and an impactor the size of Mars, known as Theia. Over the past years planetary researchers have simulated this process and reproduced many of the properties of the Earth-Moon system. However, these simulations have also given rise to the so-called Lunar Paradox problem – the Moon appears to be made up of material that would not be expected if the collision theory is correct. Now, a new study published in the journal Nature has generated an isotopic ‘fingerprint’ of the Moon that could help researchers solve this problem....
I had a Zima or two back in the day. Lemon limey and refreshing. And it was BEER! A beer that to me actually tasted good! I guess I was never one for representing my manhood thru what I was killing my brain cells with.
"There are a million ways to slight a rival's manhood, but to suggest that he enjoys Zima is one of the worst. Zima was the original "malternative"—a family of alcoholic beverages that eventually came to include such abominations as Smirnoff Ice and Bacardi Silver—and it has long been considered the very opposite of macho: a drink that fragile coeds swill while giving each other pedicures.
That stereotype has persisted despite the fact that Zima's brief heyday came nearly 15 years ago. The brand was then hailed as a marketing coup, an ingenious way to sell beer—or rather, a clear, beerlike solution—to consumers who eschewed traditional suds. But virtually overnight, Zima was done in by its medicinal taste and girly-man rep: After selling an astounding 1.3 million barrels in 1994, the year it went national, Zima's sales fell to just 403,000 barrels in 1996.
Many drinkers assume that Zima vanished shortly thereafter and has since existed solely as a punch line. But Zima actually survived for more than another decade, until MillerCoors pulled the plug on Oct. 10. Rarely has such a famously maligned product enjoyed such a lengthy run—a testament to its brewers' Madonna-like knack for reinvention. The Zima that died a quiet death last month bore little resemblance to the malternative that swept the nation during President Clinton's first term....===http://www.slate.com/articles/life/drink..._zima.html
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