Headline Tag: Risque Rating: Good Hits: 246 Comments: 0 The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex The study of sexual physiology -- what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better -- has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D, labs, and Alfred Kinsey's attic. Mary Roach, 'the funniest science writer in the country,' devoted the past two years to stepping behind those doors. In Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm, two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on earth, can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to slowly make the bedroom a more satisfying place. Mary Roach is also the author of 'Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers' and 'Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife.' This event took place on April 18, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google Series. User: White_Wolf May 15, 2008 11:51 AM
Headline Tag: Mario Bros Rating: Good Hits: 382 Comments: 0 Japanese Mario Opera Japanese Mario Opera Proof that Japan is nation about more than video games. Sometimes they write weird pop songs, too! May 15, 2008 9:01 PM
Headline Tag: How It's Made Rating: Good Hits: 263 Comments: 1 "How It's Made" - Aluminum Cans How aluminum cans are made. From the Discovery Channel. (HowItsMade_eps23) User: shadowbot May 15, 2008 9:49 PM
Headline Tag: Video Clips Rating: Good Hits: 528 Comments: 3 Understanding... Vagina Dentata Understanding... Vagina Dentata The toothed vagina might be real, but Vagina Dentata sufferers need not suffer in silence. That is why the Understanding team offers unparalleled care and attention for those with toothed vaginas. For more information visit http://www.vagident.co.uk User: lyzard May 16, 2008 6:21 AM
Playlist Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 593 Comments: 0 Daily Show: May 15, 2008 Daily Show: May 15, 2008 Guest: Denis Leary User: jaxon May 16, 2008 11:40 AM
Playlist Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 364 Comments: 0 Colbert Report: May 15, 2008 Colbert Report: May 15, 2008 Guests: Andrei Cherny User: jaxon May 16, 2008 11:34 AM
Playlist Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 398 Comments: 0 Woody Allen Interviews Billy Graham Woody Allen Interviews Billy Graham From Woody's TV special in the late Sixties. In two parts. User: jaxon May 15, 2008 11:36 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1112 Comments: 0 Colbert Report: Bill O'Reilly Inside Edition Freakout Colbert Report: Bill O'Reilly Inside Edition Freakout As far as Stephen's concerned, Bill O'Reilly did nothing wrong in that "Inside Edition" clip. From The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert. May 14, 2008 4:00 AM
Playlist Tag: Music Rating: Ok Hits: 921 Comments: 0 Groovy Dancing Girl Collection Groovy Dancing Girl Collection Video collection of Sophie Merry, aka Groovy Dancing Girl. User: jaxon May 15, 2008 7:57 PM
Headline Tag: Cinema Rating: Good Hits: 1009 Comments: 0 Marvel/DC: Iron Man and Batman #2 Marvel/DC: Iron Man and Batman #2 In another Mac/PC ad parody, Iron Man gets a new set of duds, yet still finds himself trading barbs with Batman over their summer movies. Spider-Man, Nick Fury and Nick Fury (what?) cameo. User: Aigiotis May 15, 2008 4:07 AM
Headline Tag: Highbrow Rating: Amazing Hits: 639 Comments: 2 I Guess You'll Do I Guess You'll Do A comical, cynical cartoon about marriage. User: hypersloth May 15, 2008 8:45 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1164 Comments: 12 Bill O'Reilly's Producer Bill O'Reilly's Producer A first ever look at the man behind the camera that set off Bill O'Reilly's Inside Edition tirade. May 15, 2008 2:59 PM
Headline Tag: Channel Frederator Rating: Good Hits: 250 Comments: 1 Meth Minute 39: Fan Fiction Meth Minute 39: Fan Fiction The fans take over the Meth Minute in episode 34. We asked you, the viewer to create and submit short cartoons of any MM39 character doing anything. May 15, 2008 2:57 PM
Headline Tag: Richard Pryor Rating: Good Hits: 633 Comments: 1 It'll never work, NEVER! It'll never work, NEVER! Classic scene from a classic movie. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor try to escape the law. User: OregonMike May 14, 2008 6:55 PM
Headline Tag: Homophobia Rating: Amazing Hits: 903 Comments: 1 Wedding Speech Wedding Speech Friend berates the groom for acting like a homosexual for so many years. He truly is the best man. May 15, 2008 3:01 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 576 Comments: 0 Carson: Ed McMahon Carson: Ed McMahon Ed has a few too many martini's before the show. May 15, 2008 2:55 PM
Headline Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 201 Comments: 0 Dawkins Presenting Daniel Dennett the Richard Dawkins Award Dawkins Presenting Daniel Dennett the Richard Dawkins Award Speech in honour of Dan Dennett, presenting him with the Richard Dawkins Award for 2007 at the Crystal City conference of the Atheist Alliance International. Dan Dennett is a year younger than me, almost to the day. But I must admit that I have grown to think of him as a sort of intellectual elder brother. Since the deaths of Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith, I have been rather short of intellectual heroes to consult on difficult questions. Thank goodness we still have Dan Dennett. A year or so ago, it seemed that it might be a close run thing. I remember the shock followed by deep gloom that was cast over a large group of people in a New York theatre, when we were informed that Dan had collapsed and was undergoing emergency surgery which seemed - or so we were informed - unlikely to succeed. Heroic surgery to save an intellectual hero, not just a national treasure but a world treasure, at least to the world of the mind. Many of you will have read the stirring testimonial that he wrote while he was in recovery. Actually called 'Thank Goodness'. It was widely published all over the internet, and was read out to those gathered in San Diego for the Beyond Belief conference. In it Dan mentioned his religious friends who had prayed for his recovery. He was touched by their efforts on his behalf, and he chose to interpret their words as meaning that they had been thinking of him. But he added: I am not joking when I say that I have had to forgive my friends who said that they were PRAYING for me. I have resisted the temptation to respond "Thanks, I appreciate it, but did you also sacrifice a goat?" I feel about this the same way I would feel if one of them said "I just paid a voodoo doctor to cast a spell for your health." What a gullible waste of money that could have been spent on more important projects! Don't expect me to be grateful, or even indifferent. I do appreciate the affection and generosity of spirit that motivated you, but wish you had found a more reasonable way of expressing it. Dan considered the impulse he might have felt to say 'Thank God' for his recovery. He asked himself whether his near death experience had been some kind of epiphany. I find his response to this so stirring that I again want to read it out: Yes, I did have an epiphany. I saw with greater clarity than ever before in my life that when I say "Thank goodness!" this is not merely a euphemism for "Thank God!" (We atheists don't believe that there is any God to thank.) I really do mean THANK GOODNESS! There is a lot of goodness in this world, and more goodness every day, and this fantastic human-made fabric of excellence is genuinely responsible for the fact that I am alive today. It is a worthy recipient of the gratitude I feel today, and I want to celebrate that fact here and now. To whom, then, do I owe a debt of gratitude? To the cardiologist who has kept me alive and ticking for years, and who swiftly and confidently rejected the original diagnosis of nothing worse than pneumonia. To the surgeons, neurologists, anesthesiologists, and the perfusionist, who kept my systems going for many hours under daunting circumstances. To the dozen or so physician assistants, and to nurses and physical therapists and x-ray technicians and a small army of phlebotomists so deft that you hardly know they are drawing your blood, and the people who brought the meals, kept my room clean, did the mountains of laundry generated by such a messy case, wheel-chaired me to x-ray, and so forth. These people came from Uganda, Kenya, Liberia, Haiti, the Philippines, Croatia, Russia, China, Korea, India - and the United States, of course - and I have never seen more impressive mutual respect, as they helped each other out and checked each other's work. But for all their teamwork, this local gang could not have done their jobs without the huge background of contributions from others. I remember with gratitude my late friend and Tufts colleague, physicist Allan Cormack, who shared the Nobel Prize for his invention of the c-t scanner. Allan - you have posthumously saved yet another life, but who's counting? The world is better for the work you did. Thank goodness. Then there is the whole system of medicine, both the science and the technology, without which the best-intentioned efforts of individuals would be roughly useless. So I am grateful to the editorial boards and referees, past and present, of Science, Nature, Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, and all the other institutions of science and medicine that keep churning out improvements, detecting and correcting flaws. I think you can see why Dan Dennett is my intellectual hero. May 15, 2008 2:55 PM
Playlist Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 482 Comments: 0 Daily Show: May 14, 2008 Daily Show: May 14, 2008 Guest: John Harwood User: jaxon May 15, 2008 1:23 PM
Playlist Tag: Television Rating: No Votes Hits: 416 Comments: 0 Colbert Report: May 14, 2008 Colbert Report: May 14, 2008 Guest: Laura Dern User: jaxon May 15, 2008 1:11 PM
Headline Tag: Short Films Rating: Good Hits: 953 Comments: 1 Richard Pryor: Gun Shop Richard Pryor: Gun Shop The Richard Pryor Show - Gun Shop Sketch, 1977. Featuring voice overs by Tim Reid & Robin Williams. User: OregonMike May 14, 2008 7:28 PM
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