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Category: psychology

  • Tofurky Makes You Crave Cock

    I’ve always wondered what determines sexual orientation. It turns out it’s not genetic, not hormonal, not social upbringing. Nope, soy makes people gay. This comes from a site called WorldNetDaily – a site so crazy that it seems like a parody at first glance. Alas, I don’t think it is. This guy is convinced that…

  • New Words I Learned Today

    Hyperopia: An excess of farsightedness. Most people aspire to be farsighted. It’s good to delay pleasure now so that we can be better off in the long run. But a recently published study (read about it here) interviewed people about what they regret. In the short term, people regretted partying when they should have been…

  • Video Games Make You Smart

    I’ll stick with posting about psychology, since school/work is all I’ve been doing lately. I came across an article (Teasdale & Owen, 2000) which looked at trends in intelligence scores over the last few decades. As you may know, intelligence has been steadily going up over time. This study looked at a Danish population, to…