Me @ Twitter : Live Feed

Twitter Updates

    follow me on Twitter

    License

    Creative Commons License

    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

    This is the First Thing I’ve Seen to Make Me Think the Zombie Apocalypse May Happen

    Okay, so I know about zombies. Not the undead that you see in movies but the Haitian Vodou process outlined in the book The Serpent and the Rainbow. Up until now I haven’t really been concerned about widespread zombie attacks because, well I don’t live in Haiti and it’s not like a pharmacologically induced zombie could bite you and turn you into a zombie. Now however it appears there is a parasite that essentially turns wasps into zombies and I can totally see that happening to humans as well (scientifically). I guess there are two things that will keep me sleeping at night. One, the article points out that this complex interaction between the wasps and the parasites took years and generations to develop, and two, unless the parasites can hit us all at the same time I’m pretty sure we could find a way to extract them and prevent infestations, I hope anyway.

    Parasite Turns Wasps Into Outsider Zombie Queens | Wired Science | Wired.com.

    Share
    October 26th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: General | Leave a comment

    How to Sound Like You Know What You’re Talking About (Even When You Don’t)

    My wife accuses me of using some of these tricks, but they really work.  Specifically the one that says, “If you act like you know what you’re talking about, it’s a lot more likely you’ll be perceived as knowing what you’re talking about.” Now that the cat is out of the bag she sometimes pauses after one of my statements and turns it right around on me, saying, “What? Why am I listening to you? You don’t know any more about this than I do!” Oh well, she can already tell when I’m lying so why shouldn’t she be able to tell when I’m bluffing?

    How to Sound Like You Know What You’re Talking About (Even When You Don’t). via LifeHacker

    Share
    October 26th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Hak | Leave a comment
     
      Older Entries »