Quickies
Skepchick Quickies 1.25
- Tripping on bath salts is the next big thing – Apparently they’re “bath salts” in the same way that Spice is “incense.”
- Five products that will be exposed as BS in 2011 – From Tort.
- Bad Romance science parody – With captions! From Amber.
- One hump or two? – Camel milk as alternative medicine. More or less creepy then kombucha?
Ok, the “Bad Project” video freaked me out. I’m at work, opening everything up in tabs, and suddenly I start getting weird music playing in the background, like I’m in goddamn Castlevania.
That “bath salts” thing is pretty scary. Some of the experienced users claim they’re more powerful than meth and can give cause violent behavior and strong feelings of paranoia and ‘terrors’ to some users. At least one person on the East Coast tried to kill himself during a high…This stuff needs to be off the streets yesterday, IMHO.
I used to live in SW MO, a hotspot for meth production. I saw some of the results and if this stuff IS as bad as they say, we can expect some seriously bad things to happen.
I’ll have a trenta half-caf bactrian foam mocha latte…oh, and a biscotti
Holy crap! That Bad Project video is my life! In the past week I have spoken a sentence nearly identical to every line of that parody. Sad.
And I just realized I know the Zheng lab. We collaborate with them and I have brains from those psycho mice in my freezer.
Any chance of a warning before posting links to cracked.com? Every time I end up there I seem to lose at least an hour of my life.
Andrew Nixon – Dude! I’m gonna have to second that.
Andrew Nixon – but ain’t it fun.
@Andrew Nixon:
You just settle down or we’ll send you over to tvtropes.org and you will never escape. ;)
Mwwwuu hahahaha
@mrmisconception: Gods, I’ve had those days. And you’re always looking for examples you know.
Scoliosis Moonboots: that’s either the best ever band name, or the best ever celebrity child name. I can’t decide which.
@mrmisconception: I stumbled across that site at about 10pm one night. The next time I looked at the time it was 2.30am and I was getting up for work in four hours. Had to explain to my wife that I wasn’t looking at porn and was actually looking at meaningless lists of TV and film related trivia.
@Andrew Nixon, only an hour? Lucky you. I usually end up with half my browsing tabs featuring a big red C for the next two days …