SAM MCDOUGLE
You Exist in Your Eyeballs
These "South Park"-esque alien drawings proved, for once and for all, that the eyes really are the window to the soul.
Humans are Nicer Than We Think
While everyone’s always waxing like Lord Tennyson about nature being “red in tooth and claw,” neuroscience and psychology are quietly telling us that we may be innately nicer than we think.
The Pwning Effect: Science Proves Winners are Dicks to Losers
A nice little laboratory recreation of basic human douchery. Isn’t it always good to check in with ourselves?
Animation Uses Kids’ Doodles To Explain Evolution
Art student Tyler Rhodes’ evolution animation may be excessively cutesy, but the process he used to make it gets to the heart of Darwinian evolution. Tyler started by himself sketching a small salamander like creature, and then gave it to a group of...
Chomp on This, Chumps: The T. Rex Had the Strongest Jaws of Any Land Animal Ever
It’s official. The _Tyrannosaurus rex_ had the strongest flesh-and-bone slaughtering bite of any terrestrial animal alive or extinct. Doesn’t that make you want to munch and suck down a raw steak while putting your arms inside your shirt and doing...
People Search for Thoughts Like City Rats Search for Garbage
Searching for specific memories is a universally annoying shared human experience, and also a mystery.
Sorry Ladies, Male Altruism Is Just for Attracting Mates
Leave it to some British psychologists to reduce acts of public goods by men to, simply, competition for females.
Flipping the Bird Takes More Brain Power than Pointing
Apparently, this is due to the simple fact that the middle finger is the finger in the middle.