You don't need to buy an ultra expensive one, just don't buy anything from Dyson if you can avoid it. Amazon shows them starting at $13, I imagine there might be some model reasonably priced and decent quality.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6377644/Dyson-fan-was-it-invented-30-years-ago.html

The theory actually does make sense when it's all laid out, here's the original video :

https://youtu.be/W1Kgl9aqOnI

I don't know if he mentioned it in this video, but the consequence is that Mr. Poopybutthole doesn't exist or at least isn't friends with the Smiths in Earth Dimension C137, but Krombopulos Michael might still be alive an well there.

That is just crazy the subtly and planning they bothered with with the green rocks and the number on the Jerry ticket.

Next up, Hot Pockets presents a short documentary on artisanal tableware.

"It really intensifies the character of the pocket" - Bearded hipster

While we definitely need tighter restrictions on the marketing of drugs and nutritional supplements in the US, I think such quack medical devices are handled the same way. The device would need to carry a warning "This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease." And the civil and criminal penalties of claiming your gadget really does treat any disease (not just cancer) are pretty severe.

In anyone who doesn't have a split brain, left brain and right brain can share information through the corpus callosum. Right brain doesn't come up with the words, but it's happy to help you mash the correct keys, given a request from left brain.

I'm amazed I found exactly this question on a neuroscience blog :

http://www.neuwritewest.org/blog/2014/2/6/split-brains

Fun fact, most thermal paper receipts (the vast majority of receipts you'll ever touch) are coated with BPA.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/10/27/receipts-expose-high-levels-bpa/

Hey, kid! What'd ya do, jump ship?

So, you're saying it's a dictocracy?

Yeah, I think that's a much more accurate description of what's going on. Another example is how national chains behave when they're trying to break into a new market. Back before Starbucks was everywhere, their strategy in a new town was to build right next to the local coffee shop (and hopefully drive them out of business). People are already in the habit of going to that location for coffee; it's easier to steal someone else's customer base than try to create your own.

But still I have to upvote for a good illustration of a few game theory concepts, even if their premise that it explains business clustering is off.

You'd probably like his new book then. What he says in this video is basically the introduction, and it takes off from there. I'm only through the 3rd chapter, but I dig that some scientists view 'spiritual' experiences as real, worth while, and potentially understandable.

Yeah I think his interpretation was a bit off, the study didn't test multitasking ability. Here it is :

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/37/15583.full

The first test measured the ability to filter out irreverent distractions. The second was task-switching. Chronic multitaskers did much worse at both.

My interpretation after reading it is that there's a finite amount of working memory in your brain. Heavy multitaskers tend to keep recent tasks in working memory, because they assume they might need to go back to the task in a moment or two. Where as normal people are better able to flush out the previous task from memory, preventing the risk of confusing the current task with a previous one.

I was on board right up until the end. Who could think that random quantum events are equivalent to, or even add up to free will? Which part of randomness is either willed or free?

It's like we're so used to the false dichotomy of free will VS determinism that we just place anything that isn't deterministic in the free will column, without really giving it any thought.

Hey China! that skirt looks really fetching on you.

If you're actually curious about the origin of the surname and don't just want to insult Jewish people, this seems like a well researched site:

http://www.geni.com/surnames/hyman



Alternate response: 'Christ, what an asshole.'

That's true, if the measurement is "what size breasts do the partners of wealthy men have" then it's an easy conclusion. Wealthy women weigh less due to lifestyle and diet, and breast size is influenced by weight more than anything else.

But if they controlled for all the other variables and presented men with attractive upper class women who only differ in breast size (like even using same models with and without falsies), the preference might be reversed.

I think I need to go in and clean up the field of titty research, clearly I'm needed.