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  1. Movie Theater Food

    Suppose you had to pick a food for people to snack on absent-mindedly as they watched a blockbuster movie in the theater. Obviously, you'd optimize for tasty, popular finger foods, but what other qualities might you be interested in?

    The main reason people go to a theater is to see a movie, where 'to see' really means 'to watch and listen'. Theater designers and managers try to minimize the amount of ambient noise to enhance the soundtrack of the movie, even asking people beforehand ...
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  2. Wanna know how to do something?

    by , July 3rd, 2008 at 08:59 PM (The Institution)
    Check out http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page . It is a bunch of how to manuals compiled together. I find some of them to be very interesting.
  3. Gay Zombies

    by , June 28th, 2008 at 07:09 PM (The Institution)
    http://www.kontraband.com/videos/12484/Gay-Zombies-OMG/

    This video is pretty funny but the content is probably not appropriate for the work place.
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  4. Myths of Destruction

    Humanity’s fear of annihilation is as at least as old as human history. Civilizations express this primal fear through various myths. I use the term “myth,” not as commonly understood as “fiction,” but in the anthropological sense of a story expressing a particular cultural meaning. The “annihilation myth’s” forms are as varied as they are fascinating, but exhibit several common traits:

    1. Humanity’s immoral actions have offended the god(s) or G-d ;
    2. The god(s) or G-d ...
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  5. Israeli “Ultimatums” and the Psychology of the Besieged.

    Israel is not issuing ultimatums to anyone, except Iran. It’s clear that even though most countries in the world agree that Iranian nuclear weapons would be disastrous, neither the EU, nor the United States is willing to act in order to prevent Iran from obtaining them. Israel has no choice but to act, or be annihilated, even if that action may ultimately be fruitless.

    It’s not in America or Europe’s interest for Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. It’s unfortunate that it falls ...
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