I will no doubt be caught up in moments of pro­cras­ti­na­tion in the next two days… but it’s study week, and before I study for my exams I need to fin­ish an essay.

I am intend­ing to include the words milieu, and hege­mony, in every essay I write this year. From this point on. Just because I like them.

Got any more words to throw into the pile?

Yet another study has come out link­ing cof­fee con­sump­tion with a life both healthy and wise…

Reg­u­lar con­sump­tion of caf­feine over the long-term has been linked to lower inci­dences of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s dis­ease in humans and lesser mem­ory dys­func­tion and neu­rodegera­tion in ani­mals, write neu­ro­sci­en­tists Alexan­dre de Men­donça of the Uni­ver­sity of Lis­bon and Rodrigo A. Cunha of the Uni­ver­sity of Coim­bra, both in Por­tu­gal, in this month’s issue of the Jour­nal of Alzheimer’s Research.

The ben­e­fi­cial effects only appeared when caf­feine was con­sumed in mod­er­ate amounts (the equiv­a­lent of up to 4 cups of cof­fee a day for humans) reg­u­larly over a long period of time, Cunha told Livescience.

Rather than improve mem­ory, “caf­feine pre­vents any dete­ri­o­ra­tion of mem­ory caused by insults you might be prone to,” Cunha said.

It’s not talk­ing about things some­one may have said about your mum there — but rather things that effect your brain.

Read about it here, or order some cof­fee from the St. Euty­chus Roast­ery here.

Ouch. Com­plete with super slow mo replays, and bio­me­chan­i­cal analy­sis. Appar­ently “no pain, no brain” is a fac­tual reality.

At the very least, it is pos­si­bly the most con­vo­luted chase scene ever… It’s like the direc­tor found this list of pos­si­ble ele­ments for movie chase scenes and hit select all.

The best bit is that the guy doesn’t look at the explo­sions (which don’t come until right at the end). He’s so cool.

Three Har­vard stu­dents have come up with “sOc­cket” — a soc­cer ball with an inter­nal gen­er­a­tor that in a typ­i­cal game will gen­er­ate enough power to pro­vide light for a house for a day.

“The ball uses induc­tive coil technology–similar to flash­lights that power up when shaken. Each 15 min­utes of play with the ball gen­er­ates enough power to light up an LED lamp for 3 hours, so a soc­cer game could eas­ily pro­vide light for a day.”

Have I posted this before? I can’t remember…

I actu­ally wouldn’t mind a world where every logo had to be pro­duced using Hel­vetica. A vision put to the test here.

It’s impor­tant to be on the look out for aliens. At least that’s what Hol­ly­wood has taught me. Space Invaders can come dis­guised in many ways. Here are some to be aware of.

Via Walyou.

Peter Hitchens and Christo­pher Hitchens both have books hit­ting the shelves at the same time. I’ve posted on their famous dis­agree­ment before… Peter is a Chris­t­ian jour­nal­ist, his older brother Christo­pher is an athe­ist jour­nal­ist. It’s almost prov­i­den­tial really. That the per­fect foil for one of new atheism’s most vocal advo­cates comes from the same genetic pool and has the same pre­dis­po­si­tion for communication.

Any­way, Hitchens’ (the younger) new book is reviewed in a piece from the Cen­tre of Pub­lic Chris­tian­ity, pub­lished in the Syd­ney Morn­ing Her­ald. Here’s what Peter Hitchens has to say about the dan­gers of the rise of atheism.

“His expe­ri­ences liv­ing and report­ing from Rus­sia and east­ern Europe pro­foundly shaped his view of the world. Hav­ing lived in Moscow at the close of the Soviet era, and hav­ing wit­nessed other athe­is­tic regimes in full flight, he refuses to accept his brother’s eva­sion of what he sees as an organic link between athe­ism and the most noto­ri­ous mod­ernist exper­i­ments of the 20th century.

It is this expe­ri­ence that appears to shape his con­cerns for soci­ety. He believes Chris­tian­ity is under attack today because it remains the most coher­ent and potent obsta­cle to fright­en­ing and ruth­less ide­al­ism: “The con­cepts of sin, of con­science, of eter­nal life, and of divine jus­tice under an unal­ter­able law are the ulti­mate defence against the utopian’s belief that ends jus­tify means and that moral­ity is rel­a­tive. These con­cepts are safe­guards against the wor­ship of human power.”

To be avoided like the plague, the Bieber Plague.

This has been around for a while.