“…I think universities should conduct a 3 minute silence in memory of him. Just think about how many students would fail to finish their assignments or research papers, if instant noodle wasn’t invented?” Scott Yang, on the passing of 96-year-old Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant noodle
Tags: education, food
“If you’ve ever wondered how it works, this is how it works: I don’t call Steve, Steve calls me. Or more accurately, someone in Steve Jobs’s office calls someone in my office—someone at a much higher pay grade —to say that he has something cool. I then fly to the metastasized strip mall called Cupertino, […]
“Forget toothpaste. Now it’s time to put some flavor in your life with Breath Palette. At $161 for a kit of all 31 flavors, who could resist? Looks like an all-natural idea for packaging toothpaste and then selling it for hundreds of times more than was spent to manufacture it… When you face brushing your […]
“There are many different modes of creating wonder—psychology, misdirection, suggestion. A magician must find out what people are drawn to—what colors, what numbers, what shapes—so that you can kind of get a general idea of what people want to see. We’re kind of in the same business as advertisers, because we give people what they […]
“A 17-year-old boy in northeastern China was so disappointed with the looks of a woman he met over the Internet that he hanged himself after seeing her face-to-face, state media reported Friday.” Agence France-Presse
Tags: fear, web
“In fact, what little clinical evidence there is suggests that dirty soap isn’t so bad. A study from 1965 and another from 1988 used similar methodologies: Researchers coated bars of soap in the lab with E. coli and other nasty bacteria, and then gave them to test subjects for a vigorous hand-wash. Both teams found […]
“Police have warned fish farmers to increase their security after 15,000 halibut were released from their cages in an attack believed to have been carried out by animal rights activists… Thousands of dead fish are being washed up along the west coast of Scotland… The halibut died from starvation or getting caught in seaweed. They […]