“When a psychologist or psychiatrist testifies during a defendant’s competency hearing, the psychologist or psychiatrist shall wear a cone-shaped hat that is not less than two feet tall. The surface of the hat shall be imprinted with stars and lightning bolts…” — From a legislative amendment introduced (and passed! but then removed) by New Mexico state senator Duncan Scott. Read more here.
(Source: overlawyered.com)
Life-size brain sandwich by Sara Asnaghi.
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Retired Crayons
Raw Umber was the best.
Defensive display by a Spiny Katydid (Panacanthus cuspidatus) from Yasuni National Park in Amazonian Ecuador.
(photo: Santiago Ron)
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(Source: kqedscience, via npr)
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“Comstock worried that these ‘shameless women’ and what he called their ‘Kootchy-Kootchy Dance’ were perverting the whole country.” — Latif Nasser tells the story of a belly dance, a brave lady and a sexy ghost. And it’s weirder, much weirder, than you could ever guess.