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The 10 Most Absurd Scientific Papers 127

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 11, 2010 @03:14PM from the burning-potential-of-fire dept.

Lanxon writes "It's true: 'Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behavior,' 'Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time,' and 'Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?' are all genuine scientific research papers, and all were genuinely published in journals or similar publications. Wired's presentation of a collection of the most bizarrely-named research papers contains seven other gems, including one about naval fluff and another published in The Journal of Sex Research."

Linux Action Show Returns 61

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 18, 2010 @04:37PM from the for-your-time-on-the-elliptical-machine dept.

BJ writes "The Linux Action Show, the Linux-podcast to end all Linux-podcasts, is returning with their 11th season after over 7 months off the air. Kicking it all off with a live streaming event this Saturday at 5pm. Topics are set to include: Maemo/Moblin merging into Meego, Open Source Nividia drivers with 3D, KDE 4.4 and much, much more."

Comment Boadr games too - living GO (Score 1) 894

by whitmad on Tuesday January 11, 2005 @12:56PM (#11322049) Attached to: Too Much Gaming, Anyone?

Some years ago when learning to play Go, I speant a couple of weeks playing intensively, most waking hours. By the end of that time I was visualising all kinds of real life situations, problems and decisions as configurations of Go stones. That was wierd.

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