1. Don't eat at the Outback Steakhouse on Route 3...

Comment #58950 by Thinkingmom on July 26, 2007 at 6:26 pm

I can't believe YouTube allows this kind of stuff on their website...

Life must be hard when you're easily baited, and I mean that for both theists and atheists. Kurzweilfreak's last line says it best as far as I'm concerned!

2. Why Children Love Their Security Blankets

Comment #24776 by Thinkingmom on March 8, 2007 at 1:52 pm

This study is interesting, but it could go further. I suggest that this innate preference can probably be informed. My daughter hasn't been fooled by any of the 3 mostly identical bears we've rotated through the wash since she was 18mos old. She ~knows~ they're different, but we treat them like they're not so she plays along. (How's that for frighteningly impressionable?)

As for adults collecting items with "special" properties, I once had a professional trombonist friend swear that instruments played by great musicians become conditioned to play in tune and produce better sound. By the end of the evening, this otherwise well-educated person was only sort of convinced that sound waves are unlikely to rearrange brass. ~sigh~