Posts tagged “research

A study finds that friendliness, honesty, and niceness are now considered cool. So there. (Though I'll admit this doesn't actually prove any of my earlier points.)

Trapped like ratsSep 23, 2003

We're more like panicking mice than we'd like to admit. Wider doors cause jams, narrow ones create orderly queues, and clustered exits block each other. Turns out human evacuation behavior is far less rational than we imagine.

Neurons grown on silicon is cool science, but the image of neurons fenced in with little plastic posts because they kept trying to escape? That little guy looks unhappy. Launching my Free The Neurons campaign tomorrow.