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Last login: 24 hours agoTachyonic: Luke is a 32 year old guy from Grahamstown, South Africa.; Likes 188 pages, 63 videos, 2 photos • 23 fans • Received 2 reviews; Member since Feb 16, 2007

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Love really is blind, or at least blinkered - being-human - 07 July 2008 - New S…: Jul 7, 7:26pm 1 review psychology
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn14263-love-really-is-blind-...; Unsurprisingly, we are (unconsciously) disinclined to attend to attractive faces of the opposite sex when primed with thoughts of a romantic partner, and the effect vanishes for faces we consider unattractive. Yet some part of us must still register the higher attractiveness of these faces, in order to allow us to selectively fail to attend to them.

Molecular Visualizations of DNA: May 28, 4:29pm 12 reviews biology
http://sciencehack.com/videos/view/4PKjF7OumYo; Come get the knowledge...

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2008/16/videos/d/formats/640x360_wmv.wmv: Apr 26, 3:58pm 4 reviews astronomy
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2008/16/videos/d/formats/640x360_wmv.wmv; Galaxies colliding.

bd.Systema.avi | Veoh Video Network: Apr 15, 2:25pm 2 reviews psychology, video
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=5312h1g091; Derren Brown's "System". Its not too hard to work out how it works (how could it work any other way?) but its still very fun.

Timeline for the Large Hadron Collider (2008 to 2019) Blogs Scientific Americ…: Apr 14, 1:57pm 3 reviews physics
http://science-community.sciam.com/blog-entry/Sciam-Observations/Timeline-Lar...; The LHC is not just after the Higgs, but supersymmetry, extra spatial dimensions, the "compositeness" of quarks, etc.

There is also an interesting comment here, raising the alarm about accidental gravitational annihilation. On the plus side, death by black hole would make for some fascinating final moments.

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001341/01/consequences.pdf: Mar 8, 1:58pm 2 reviews philosophy, cosmology
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001341/01/consequences.pdf; Knobe (and family) present the world as plenum - all physically possible circumstances instantiated an infinite number of times...

Dipdive.com: Feb 6, 10:09pm 96 reviews music
http://www.dipdive.com/; The liberal vision - we want change...

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1041454/: Jan 20, 10:09am 4 reviews video
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=xv75ue5x38; Some dolphins having fun with bubbles.

Monsters blamed for extreme chaos in black holes - space - 18 January 2008 - New…: Jan 18, 12:48pm 2 reviews astronomy, astrophysics
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13201-monsters-blamed-for-extreme-cha...; Black-hole entropy...

The Moral Instinct - New York Times: Jan 12, 4:12pm 1 review ethics, philosophy, psychology
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html?em&ex=12002868...; Naturalizing ethics...

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