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Sunday, October 9, 2016

Heh - I guess it made sense at the time: Why Alcohol Is Not Always Your Best Friend

This is a hoot - actually from last year, but I hadn't seen it before.



Posts that are sort of ( in an alcohol plus stupid sense) related:

Men Pee On Beehive, Bees React, Targeting The First Human Body Parts They See.

Friday, October 7, 2016

From 1930, Information Tests To Try On Your Children



https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/10/information-test-written-to-assess-children-in-1930.html

In case you didn't realize how much the government schools have been dumbed down: this test ran in Parents (then The Parents’ Magazine) in November, 1930.

Click here to embiggen.

More at Slate.

Related posts:

From 1921, here's the Intelligence Test That Thomas Edison Gave to Job Seekers.

Check out this test for eighth graders in Kentucky dated 1912.

Friday links

From 1930, Information Tests To Try On Your Children.

Gallery - the living root bridges of India.

The Science Behind Senior Moments. It's because your brain gets full.

Gift for the person who has everything - this UFO Detector (check the reviews).

The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune.


ICYMI, Wednesday's links are here, and include maps showing how the continents would look if you could see gravity, how each of the state capitals got their names,  Stalin's body double, and a collection of vintage ads you would never see today.

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Clapping Mohawks - If you're happy and you know it, clap your hair

One of those WTF things:




Wednesday links

How All 50 State Capitals Got Their Names.


ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include how birds avoid crashing into each other in mid-air, old pictures of the death-defying sport known as ‘Auto Polo’, Columbia grad's experience with the gender misconduct system after he called himself handsome, and the Buddhist Kung Fu nuns who are biking the Himalayas.