FleaStiff
FleaStiff
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March 8th, 2012 at 7:48:11 AM permalink
Brain lesions benefit gamblers.

Please note: The Journal of Improbable Research is a humorous science magazine and the Ig Nobel awards are humorous awards accompanied by thirty second acceptance speeches and much frivolity.

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odiousgambit
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March 8th, 2012 at 12:04:22 PM permalink
beri beri interesting.

It's certainly an example of an article you could send someone in order to deceive them. Sort of disturbing.
the next time Dame Fortune toys with your heart, your soul and your wallet, raise your glass and praise her thus: “Thanks for nothing, you cold-hearted, evil, damnable, nefarious, low-life, malicious monster from Hell!”   She is, after all, stone deaf. ... Arnold Snyder
98Clubs
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March 11th, 2012 at 6:04:29 PM permalink
The study is flawed, the coin-flip as pointed out very recently by Bear Melt should be "Heads I win, Tails you lose". All for naught.
Some people need to reimagine their thinking.
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