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This past summer, the Evil Food Conglomerates of America agreed to
"limit" advertising that "targeted children," though their definition of that is loose enough to keep selling a
lot of Pop-Tarts to 13-year-olds. They did this to try to preclude some kind of rule that would outlaw their advertising to children altogether. Unfortunately for the Hamburglar,
a new study is out that has people actually talking about banning youth-targeted
fast food ads, which would really be an incredible thing. "No fatties," the study proclaims:
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Scientists are talking about how a "living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million,"
reports the NYT.
Regenerated? One scientist says it "could work," although it would probs be "tedious and expensive," as regenerating long-extinct animals tends to be. But that is far from the most disturbing piece of reanimation news: there's an ominous "workaround" technique to turn chimps into Neanderthals. Don't say we didn't warn you.
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In case you didn't obsessively compare election results to his site in real time, it's worth noting that baseball stat whiz
Nate Silver wholly justified his
gushing press and
nailed the popular vote. His prediction: 52.3 percent Obama, 46.3 percent McCain. Actuals: 52.4 percent Obama, 46.3 percent McCain. Within
a tenth of a percent, bitches! Granted, there are a couple of million votes yet uncounted, but Silver has already extrapolated how those will play out, and he's still super-close. Unless you want to step to his stats?? Thought so. Silver may grow fabulously wealthy applying his battle-tested techniques to other realms,
according to the
Wall Street Journal:
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Ever looked at that tranny teetering down the center median of the boulevard and asked yourself "why'd he choose to be like that for?" Well, it turns out that it may not be a choice at all, according to science, which released a statement today, by way of Australian researchers who believe they have found a possible genetic cause for male-to-female transexualism. Suck it, Nurture!
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Deep down, the smokers among us knew that this day was coming: a new study says that warning labels on cigarette packs subconsciously make people want to smoke
more. Does this mean the City of New York will stop running all those anti-smoking ads with the tracheotomy dude who can't swim any more and the
amputee lady who lost her fingers? No, those are just good old-fashioned punishment. [
Ad Age]
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Or computer program or whatever. Not like we need anyone to tell us, really, but actor
James Franco has the most perfect face in the world. So says science, at least. A new computer program uses mathematical formulas to take one photo (left) and turn it into a more traditionally aesthetically pleasing face (right). And, um, Franco's face pretty much stayed exactly the same when the
New York Times conducted the experiment. So good for him. Getting his MFA, has movie star riches, and is, as proven by science, perfect looking. Now if he could just get rid of those
pesky rumors... (Oh, and if you put
this dude's picture in the machine, it explodes). [via
Cityfile, image via
NYT]