The Crikey team’s pick of the web for today:
Use your noggin’. Could some experiments correlating brain regions to feelings be over-exaggerating the links? asks New Scientist.
Pashler’s team say that in most of the studies, which linked brain regions to feelings including social rejection, neuroticism and jealousy, researchers interpreted their data using a method that inflates the strength of the link between a brain region and the emotion or behaviour.
Eight racist words you use every day. Cracked look at a bunch of every-day expressions with racist roots. Fun for the PC crowd and language geeks.
How it’s Used:
“We won the little league game! Hip hip hooray!”
What You’re Actually Saying:
“We won the little league game! Let’s go kill some Jews!”
A beautiful day for cancer. A bit tasteless and not the catchiest tune ever written, but we do like the clip for Aussie rapper Al Bino’s debut single, Beautiful Day for Cancer:
Mother’s milk. The New Yorker looks at the history and trends of breast feeding and the ethics and implications of breast pumps.
