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...watched a lot of cartoons while writing Jackass 2, like Road Runner and Tom & Jerry. I saw one where Tom puts on a blind-fold and a bull comes along and smokes him. We got an 1,800-pound yak to do the same...
...army convoy rattled through Al-Adhamiya like a carnival roller coaster, each turn as blind as the next. Not that the soldiers could see much anyway. Night had fallen on the old Baghdad quarter, a byzantine maze lit only by kerosene lamps flickering from rugged stone houses. We moved warily in the darkness, patrolling for insurgents in blind alleys custom-made for ambushes and narrow passages perfect for concealing roadside bombs. It was anyone's bet who faced a more dire risk, the hunted in terrorist cells or the hunters in humvees, along with whom I was riding under...
...study by Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, published in the academic journal Neuro, used fMRI technology to determine that cola drinkers subconsciously have warmer feelings for the Coca-Cola brand, and that gives Coke an edge over Pepsi, even though Pepsi performs as well as Coke in blind taste tests...
Today marriages of business and talent tend to be arranged and can be brokered in a boardroom and followed by a blind date. Sidney Toledano first scouted out Galliano in a rundown studio in a rough part of Paris. Toledano was so impressed, he requested an invitation to sit in the back row, unobserved, at Galliano's next show. It was arranged that Toledano would first meet Dior menswear designer Hedi Slimane in a café (they talked for four hours...
...Baylor College of Medicine in Houston - which was published in the academic journal Neuron - used FMRI technology to determine that cola drinkers subconsciously have warmer feelings for the Coca-Cola brand, and that gives Coke an edge over Pepsi, even though Pepsi performs as well as Coke in blind taste tests. Brain scanning is the field's dominant technology, but other technologies and techniques are used as well, often in conjunction with FMRIs. Magnetoencephalography (MEG), a technology that can read electrical signals pulsating from brain cells, is popular because it detects how quickly the brain reacts to stimulations. But unlike...