Everyday Mind Freak 1/25/2011

Everyday mind freak 1/25/2010: The combined historic emissions of just seven US states—Texas, California, Illinois, New York, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Ohio—totalled more than any other country in the world, including China in 05. Since then China and India, both with populations exceeding 1 billion, have had significant rises in emissions. Imagine what it will be like when two more countries are living like we do.

Everyday Mind Freak 1/24/2011

Everyday mind freak 1/24/2010: the Mona Lisa doesn't have eyebrows. In Renaissance Florence shaving off your eyebrows was what was hot on the streets.

Update: Research has shown that the Mona Lisa did in fact have eyebrows at one time. The loss of the top paint layers with the eyebrows is the unfortunate result of restoration and cleaning techniques. Still mind freaky.

Everyday Mind Freak 1/23/2011

Everyday mind freak 1/23/2010: Popeye had a nephew named Poopeye.

Everyday Mind Freak 1/22/2011

Our galaxy is on a collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy.

Today's Everyday Mind Freak was brought to you by the Adler Planetarium. The Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum: "Because the Museum of Science and Industry sucked when you were 13 and it still sucks today."

Everyday Mind Freak 1/21/2011

Today's everyday mind freak is brought to you by the Adler Planetarium. "Proving that you're not the only star in the universe since 1930."

Why is the day sky blue? Not because of the oceans. Nitrogen, which makes up 78% of the atmosphere, scatters blue light from the sun the most efficiently which causes us to perceive the sky as blue.

Everyday Mind Freak 1/20/2011

What do you call someone who plays guitar? What do you call someone who plays piano? What do you call someone who plays cello? What do you call someone who plays violin? What do you call someone who tours? What do you call someone who makes art? What do you call someone who raps?...a-haaa ::finger wave::

Everyday Mind Freak 1/19/2011

Orange juice...is yellow.

At the Behest of Others

Nobody likes a copycat. Except the copyman.

Who copy, can. And copy, does. That man

Without a plan, copying with his sordid hands

Clearly coordinated paths. Insinuated can'ts lost

When the little devil on his shoulder in the body

Of a ram says listen copier, you can...you can!

They won't notice. They won't see,

You'll go down in history. A lovely little melody,

A tale of caution for the meek. The one that's been told,

On the whole,

A thousand times
Before.

Writing jokes

I think all profession jokes are lame, but these got a chuckle out of me.

How many mystery writers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Two. One to screw it almost all the way in, and the other to give it a surprising twist at the end.

How many screenwriters does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Why does it have to be changed?

How many cover blurb writers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A VAST AND TEEMING HORDE STRETCHING FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA!!!!

Sterno- Burn

There is a dark-haired girl on the train

this morning reading and rambling off words

like sternocleidomastoid. I try and try

to remember the corresponding structure,

but all I can see is the yellow tinged skin

beneath the mandible. Your full nape always

so warm, so inviting. And when I marched

my lips up to yours, the uncontrollable shivers

you released always cornered my thoughts

in unprecedented displays of loving remorse.

Sterno cleido mastoid,

the unwavering truth of science's etymology ringing

in my mind, turning my head from left to right,

full circle understanding that we never said goodbye

and it is that paired muscle, a chiefly mammalian

feature of anatomy, that flexes my heart.