“Blondes have more fun”

WOMEN who dye their hair blonde get more sex.
They are also more confident than those who keep their natural colour, experts revealed yesterday.
And they are more likely to sing and dance in front of strangers or ask someone out for a date. University researchers studied the effect hair colouring had on a woman’s mood and [...]

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Blake, Goethe, and Black Metal

This is an article I wrote on the connection between the late 18th century literary movement Romanticism (exemplified by two authors William Blake and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) and black metal to demonstrate that black metal is a modern romantic artform. It was submitted to the metal blog at American Nihilist Underground Society (ANUS.com) as [...]

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Dr. Albert Bartlett: Arithmetic, Population and Energy

Last night, I downloaded a lecture given by Dr. Albert Bartlett four years ago called “Arithmetic, Population and Energy”. It’s absolutely brilliant. I’ve listened to it twice today. In the lecture, he applies simple arithmetic to growth rates and displays how unrealistic the growth-obsessed really are in an incredibly profound, interesting, and mathematic manner. Anyone [...]

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Multicellular Organisms Function Better Than Modern Society

At the molecular level, it has been widely assumed that, in single-celled organisms, each cell perceives its environment — and responds to stress conditions — individually, each on its own to protect itself. Likewise, it had been thought that cells in multicellular organisms respond the same way, but a new study by scientists at Northwestern [...]

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