Diversions

PLOS ONE: Why Men Don’t Understand Women

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Men are traditionally thought to have more problems in understanding women compared to understanding other men, though evidence supporting this assumption remains sparse. Recently, it has been shown, however, that meńs problems in recognizing women’s emotions could be linked to difficulties in extracting the relevant information from the eye region, which remain one of the richest sources of social information for the attribution of mental states to others.

via PLOS ONE: Why Don’t Men Understand Women? Altered Neural Networks for Reading the Language of Male and Female Eyes.

Citation: Schiffer B, Pawliczek C, Müller BW, Gizewski ER, Walter H (2013) Why Don’t Men Understand Women? Altered Neural Networks for Reading the Language of Male and Female Eyes. PLoS ONE 8(4): e60278. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060278

UPDATE: Five Earthquakes hit Oklahoma Tuesday | News OK

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UPDATE: Five earthquakes hit Oklahoma early Tuesday | News OK.

Faithful readers are aware of my fascination with the weather and other natural events in the state of Oklahoma.  Yes, I felt one of the quakes.  I was roused out of sleep around 2:00 AM and the first thing I noticed was the wall shaking.

Just another earthquake in Oklahoma.

A Short Lesson in Perspective

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A Short Lesson in Perspective.

Countless late nights and weekends, holidays, birthdays, school recitals and anniversary dinners were willingly sacrificed at the altar of some intangible but infinitely worthy higher cause. It would all be worth it in the long run…

This was the con. Convincing myself that there was nowhere I’d rather be was just a coping mechanism. I can see that now. It wasn’t really important. Or of any consequence at all really. How could it be. We were just shifting product. Our product, and the clients. Just meeting the quota. Feeding the beast as I called it on my more cynical days.

So was it worth it?

Well of course not. It turns out it was just advertising. There was no higher calling. No ultimate prize. Just a lot of faded, yellowing newsprint, and old video cassettes in an obsolete format I can’t even play any more even if I was interested. Oh yes, and a lot of framed certificates and little gold statuettes. A shit-load of empty Prozac boxes, wine bottles, a lot of grey hair and a tumor of indeterminate dimensions.

Large Squid Fishing Frenzy

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During a 45-minute stretch for anglers on two boats Saturday night off Southern California, they reeled an estimated 800 large ink- and water-squirting squid up and over the rails.

via Large, mysterious squid send California anglers into fishing frenzy.

First images of giant squid in the deep are released.

Giant-squid video technology could reveal more monsters of the deep – thestar.com.

Watch the first ever video of a live giant squid as it terrorizes the deep | News | Geek.com.