Archive for October 21st, 2006
Saturday, October 21st, 2006
NaNoWriMo Aids
It’s almost time for Nanowrimo! The competition where you win if you managed to finish off a (50,000 word) novel in the month of November. They are now accepting registrations so if you’ve ever felt that you might have a novel inside of you, sign up and maybe find out! It may seem like a […]
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Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Evolution Sucks
A recent study published (subscription only) in PNAS by two scientists in WA (Australia) and the US has found that:
beetles with the biggest horns have the smallest testes, showing that in evolutionary terms you cannot have it all. [ABC Online]
Apparently according to earlier research by the scientists, the smaller horned (and sometimes hornless) males have […]
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Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Social Conscience, a bloody good brand
This is a great video from Dove on our perceptions of beauty. At a time when even young children have growing rates of eating disorders, we should be looking at the responsibility that advertising and the media should take for the growing dissatisfaction in our physical self-perception much in the way advertising of obesity causing […]
