Pregnancy: Yep. I got another bun in the uterus.
Sex: We did the ol’ horizontal copulation.
Testicles: And then she kicked me! Right in the family balls!
Male Genitalia: Would you like to meet my one-eyed trouser penis?
Fighting: Your father and I had words last night. The most common words were Fuck and You.
(Source: smbc-comics.com)
*Keith almost wets paints laughing*
“Remember kids, when you enter more than three spacial dimensions your shoe laces will become untied…yet you will still be stuck in that tesseract hyperbox forever.”
HYPERBONDAGE! SEX! SCIENCE!
Lesson 390: The Senses
Try this test today, by asking people around you what sense they would be least willing to lose, and tell them they have to immediately say whatever sense comes to mind. Probably eighty percent of the people you ask will say hearing or sight. No one gives touch the credit it deserves. Touch is like the James K. Polk of the senses.
( on January 31, 2011 at 8:03 am)
Video games don’t cause violence, they package the dopamine release of real world violence into a form that can be consumed and enhanced without guilt. Just like books, plays, movies, comics and television before them. We enjoy and crave violence. You don’t have to like the idea but from an evolutionary point of view it’s neither difficult to believe nor hard to understand. Back in the day it would have been pretty useful while trying to chase off a potential mating rival or protecting your clan, and guess who’s passing on their genes: the ape with a bashed in head or the one making sweet love to the furry spoils?
One thing to keep in mind however is that through the aid of our cerebral cortex, high brain functions, ability for abstract thought and our reasoning faculties we live broken free from the clutches of natural selection. We are no longer the impulsive slaves we once were. We might not desire offspring (nor need the snots) but we still want to have sex, so we use contraception. We don’t need extra calories but we still crave cheesecake, so we use artificial sweeteners. We don’t live in small clans with reciprocal altruism but still have the desire to help each other, so we do charity work. So maybe, because we get to engage in it, video games are Violence-Condoms, or Rage-Dildos (though I hasten to differentiate this idea from catharsis and the hydraulic model of the brain, neither of which I subscribe to. But that’s also a whole other post).
I play video games all the time, and I haven’t killed anyone.
Yet.
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Extra internet points to anyone who noticed that the sprite I referenced in the comic is Small-Mario and would not, in fact, be able to break bricks. Ugh, my balls just undropped.
(from http://sci-ence.org/)
Hahaha!
Fun Game: Find a combination of two items that most freaks out the cashier. Winner: Pregnancy test and single coat hanger!
(because obviously someone had to say it or write it or whatever…eventually)
120 notes (via scienceisbeauty)
Q: Why is it that men have facial hair, but women don’t?
—L.H.
A: From Darwin on down, mainstream evolutionary theory has attributed most of humanity’s hair peculiarities to sexual selection.
Humans’ overall lack of hair (compared to fellow primates), for example, is usually credited to mutated females who had less hair, which better revealed their breasts and skin. This made them more attractive to males—the denuded faces and/or hindquarters of many primates serve as sex attractants—and their hairlessness was passed down to their children of both sexes.
Among the relatively few mammal species in which one sex has more facial hair (or the closely related mane) than another, the hairier sex is always the male. The facial or mane hair is also always a secondary sex characteristic produced by the flow of sex hormones during puberty.
Therefore, facial hair has something to do with sex. Darwin believed that beards were probably ornaments that attracted females. Of course, Darwin himself had a beard and may have been doing a little wishful thinking.
The males of the guenon and emperor tamarind monkeys, which have striking and lavish beards and hair styles, show us the real sex function of facial hair. Their features certainly have an ornamental function—but rather than attracting females, they’re used to scare off rival males (and possibly provide padding in a fight).
This threat function clearly resonates in human culture, where the beard has long symbolized power, virility and wisdom.
The complexities of human society have complicated the symbolic function without lessening it (and while increasing the input of female influence): Our images of bearded devils, gods and pirates now simply co-exist with the triple-razor, smooth-is-sexy imagery of Gillette.
