Archive for June, 2005

Because you can eat them in your underwear

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Saddam Hussein has been definitively linked to Doritos, and Low Culture calls PepsiCo to account.

If Teflon doesn’t get us, TV will

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

A chemical in Teflon may cause cancer, according to the EPA (which evinces a sudden willingness to maybe actually Protect us).

Here’s how the part of GE that makes TV news reports the story:

WASHINGTON - With five kids, it seems Barbara Andrukonis always has something cooking in a pan. But it’s the chemical compound used to […]

Baby’s smile is a social expression

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

Babies smile socially, even at just eight months of age, a new study indicates.

Each of twenty infants was left to play in a room, alone except for the baby’s mother, while researchers from Indiana University filmed the scene. Mothers were instructed to watch their babies play for half of the allotted time period and, […]

The resilient narcissist

Monday, June 27th, 2005

The self-absorbed handle trauma best, a study finds.

Is that why they get to be in charge of everything?

(Via Mind Hacks)