After this letter and my brief response appeared in Savage Love earlier this year… I am a 30-year-old woman with a strange problem. I recently started lifting weights, and every time I use the arm machines, I have an orgasm. It is not obvious to anyone else (I think), and my sex life is great […]
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Happy Birthday, Carl Sagan.
I’m hardly the first person to post this video today, on what would’ve been Carl Sagan’s 76th birthday. But still. More at John Boswell’s Symphony of Science site.
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Humanity: Doing Stuff for the Hell of It, Since Forever
Yves Rossy became the first man to fly with a jet-powered custom wing suit in 2006, and flew one over the English Channel two years later. On Friday, he became the first man to perform aerobatic stunts with his jet pack, completing two full loops after launching from a hot air balloon in Switzerland. This […]
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Somehow I Missed This Story When It Broke
One of those stories that sounds too good to fact-check—or peer-review: Heterosexual men fellated by gay men have lower prostate and testicular cancer risk, study says But you know what they say: It’s not science if the results can’t be replicated… so get on it, guys. Science!
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Radioactive Rabbit Found in Wash. Nuclear Site
Blogtownie Todd Mecklem passed on a Tri-City Herald story stating that some time in the last week, a radioactive rabbit was trapped, killed and disposed of at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash. Health authorities are now combing the area for its contaminated droppings. The report does not say much beyond explaining the rabbit […]
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Work Beginning on Pearl District’s Portland Loo
City of Portland RENDERING: What the Jamison Square “loo” might look like. As our more devoted readers might remember, I’m a big fan of the Portland Loo—the 24-hour public toilets (patented by Portland!) that Commissioner Randy Leonard wants to plop into better-trafficked areas downtown and the East Side. So today’s post brings some good news. […]
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Something You Won’t See On The Mercury‘s Event Calendar
Last night I was forwarded an email entitled “POWERFUL 11:11 GLOBAL LINK UP” filled with promises of amazing opportunities for me, you and everyone else in the world. What was inside was too silly not to share with you here. “It is time for us to reap the rewards of our long and arduous labors,” […]
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UPDATED: Feel Like Checking Out a Giant Sewer Pipe? Read On.
Motoya Nakamura—The Oregonian Coming soon: Poop and rainwater. UPDATE, 2:45 PM: Linc Mann, the Bureau of Environmental Services’ excellently named media guy, just called back with deets about when and how the masses will be invited to tour the sewers. The big day is Friday, November 5, and spots will be allocated via a drawing. […]
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ERIC STOLTZ AS MARTY MCFLY IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
The Back to the Future trilogy—featuring one perfect movie, one great movie, and one boring-ass movie about two elderly nerds falling in love in the Wild West—is coming to Blu-ray later this month. We’ll have a review of the Blu-rays when they come out, but in the meantime, check out this glimpse from the set’s […]
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Today in the Painful Lessons of Physics
Ever tried swinging so high on a swingset that you accomplished a 360 degree rotation? No? Because it’s “impossible”? LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FEAT THAT HAS PLAGUED SCIENTISTS FOR CENTURIES HAS FINALLY BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. (And naturally, with very painful results.) Next time? Maybe don’t scream like Barney from The Simpsons.
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AAAUGGGHHH! Giant Penguins!!!!!
OMG GIANT PENGUINS ARE REAL!!!!!!! It’s totally true, I swear to god. Look! The BBC wrote about it: The fossil of a giant penguin that lived 36 million years ago has been discovered in Peru… The bird, named Inkayacu paracasensis, or Water King, waddled the Earth during the late Eocene period. Okay, so there aren’t […]
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Happy Binary Code Day (Again), Nerds!
Yes, it’s 100110 (apparently representing an “&” in ASCII). But don’t get too excited, today is merely one of several Binary Code days that we will celebrate this year, and next. Now, let me annoy the crap out of you with this fantastically dated and absolutely WTF clip from Laurie Anderson’s Home of the Brave […]