how-to-use-your-friends-hobbies-to-your-advantage

http://basicinstructions.squarespace.com/storage/2010-01-28-friends-hobbies.gif?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1264645204864

It seems obvious, but...

it's not what you might think.

clipped from news.nationalgeographic.com National Geographic Daily News Flashier Great Tits Produce Stronger Sperm, Bird Study Shows When male great tits have brighter breasts, they also have more resilient sperm, a new study says.

Cartoon from Michael Ramirez

via CFIF

clipped from cfif.org

What you can learn from a slime mold

(And it's not something icky and scary like you'd encounter in Dungeons and Dragons. Also, note that they used the word "design." ;^)

clipped from esciencenews.com Slime design mimics Tokyo's rail system Image courtesy of Science/AAAS "Some organisms grow in the form of an interconnected network as part of their normal foraging strategy to discover and exploit new resources," Tero writes in the report. "Physarum is a large, single-celled amoeboid organism that forages for patchily distributed food sources... [It] can find the shortest path through a maze or connect different arrays of food sources in an efficient manner with low total length yet short average minimum distance between pairs of food sources, with a high degree of fault tolerance to accidental disconnection."

What's your password like?

Apparently most people's aren't very good...

clipped from www.net-security.org Analysis of 32 million breached passwords Top 10: 1. 123456 2. 12345 3. 123456789 4. Password 5. iloveyou 6. princess 7. rockyou 8. 1234567 9. 12345678 10. abc123

Worst TV News "Story" Ever.

What to do with the change that's accumulating on your dresser...

In case you had a bit more than you might need for a rainy day, here's something to ponder.

clipped from www.wired.com $5M Buys the Ride of Your Life