Tridimity

Henry James The Birthplace and Stephen Law Philosophy

Q. Why did the lollipop lady cross the road? A. To get away from the chicken

Thanks to Marnix for this one, I miss talking to him. An inbred cat:

I love it when television presenters lose their composure - Jeremy Vine <3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEU4WDZII5Q

Psychology is a research-intensive field of Science. Look how much I'm laughing

Thomas Hardy: Behind the Mask (biography)

Haha, I will agree with © - he could have EtBr on there or anything!

Not a joke, not funny one bit. Just the truth - I couldn't find a suitable alternative thread.

Icona Pop - I Love It http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp7DC8yS6_c

Currently re-reading Richard Dawkins' A Devil's Chaplain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HD4HChwG3Q Paul Merton <3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03h8wst/QI_Series_K_Keeps/ @13:45 What should you do if faced with a snake - run or keep still? 'It actually just forgets you're there if you keep still' 'I get that a lot...' @16:00 On trying to train a chimpanzee. 'Their intelligence is of a different order and it's kind of smart, but stupid. [Jane Goodall] had these chimpanzees, and when one [defecated] on the floor, of this little wooden bungalow that she had in Africa, what she would do, she would make it confront its own [faeces], spank it on the bottom and throw it out of the window, and' [interjection: 'It's ground floor, isn't it?'] 'It's ground floor, yes. And so she did that twice, and the third time, she saw one [defecate], slap its own bottom, and jump out of the window' @22:00 On nudist art: 'In 1998, a man took Northampton College to industrial tribunal, claiming that he was not being employed on the basis of his gender, and that it was sexual discrimination, in fact they were able to demonstrate that it was personal, and the reason was he fidgeted, went to the loo too often, had a background in erotic films which troubled the A-Level students, particularly one 16 year old at whom he winked when she was drawing' 'What did he wink with?'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03h8wgr/QI_XL_Series_K_Kinetic/ "What would happen if the world stopped spinning?" "Oh, there'd be numerous consequences" (bluffs)... "Go on then, name a consequence" "Well, half of the world would be plunged into eternal darkness..." "That's a very good point" "And they would all leave and come and join the light side - or would some of them go to the dark side... What about the animals, all of the ones that like the dark, they'd have to get to the dark side, all the moths would have to go that way [signals], the butterfiles would have to go that way [signals opposite direction with hand gesture]. The moles would be really confused... What about on Daybreak, when they start broadcasting? How do they know when to start daybreak? You could only grow food on half of the world, the rest of the people would have to come to the light side for food. Or they would only be able to have fungi." Love QI <3

Avicii - You Make Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GADx4Hy-Gg

It would be funny if it did not have such drastic consequences for the wellbeing of humanity.

Yes, I definitely regard Psychology as a Science. Investigation in the field is complicated by the fact that, as iNow has pointed out, the subjects of Psychology - humans and human behaviour - are not easily amenable to experimental intervention, or even if such intervention is technically possible, it would not always be deemed ethical to do so. For example, humans are phenotypically diverse and this is a reflection of the uniqueness of the interactions between their genome and environmental/life experiences. All of the possible confounding variables must therefore be controlled for when recruiting volunteers for psychological analysis. The same is true for any human medical Science however Psychology is different, I think, because it requires the inter-relation of biological and whole-organism behavioural phenomena - whereas Biomedical Science tends to concern itself with the behaviour of molecules, cells, tissues and organs. Therefore, there is less room for confounding variables to creep in with Biomedical Science when compared with Psychology because the organs and organ systems are relatively well understood and the resulting behaviour is very much a straightforward result of genetic and environmental factors. For example, whereas it is possible to model the effect of an environmental stimulus on some crude phenotype of importance to Biomedical Science (e.g. the secretion of a factor by cells in a cell culture dish), it is not possible to reduce phenotypes of importance to Psychology in the same way. At some point, the reductionist approach breaks down in the field of Psychology and is no longer informative with regards whole organism behaviour. Mouse and other in vivo models are useful in this respect in both Biomedical Science and in Psychology/Neuropsychology - see some of the recent work on autism in mice: http://www.nature.com/news/autism-symptoms-reversed-in-mice-1.11869 The brain itself is one of the most complex systems under scientific investigation and the field of Neuroscience is in its infancy so the field of Neuropsychology is still very much progressing in tandem. Thus, it seems to me that Psychology is a Science but that, until the field of Neurobiology progresses substantially further, then Psychology as a field will be limited in its approaches.

Not a joke but still funny High visibility jackets for pet chickens - or, as the manufacturer calls them, 'health and safety gilets' http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/20/high-vis-chicken-jacket_n_4131395.html

"Wish he'd just square with me, so we can get to the root of our problems, us two."

"Don't swat any flies or you'll be a hot dog man"? "Can I have a twelve inch with a side of yang?" "Don't eat that - that's my brother from a past life"?

Lana Del Ray - Summertime Sadness http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVjsGKrE6E8 "I just wanted you to know... that baby You're the best"

What's up imatfaal? Cheer up. *hugs* Here From sciencejokesdaily.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79YDgv_zWA4 Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine ft. Will Heard)

Not exactly a joke but this made me smile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gOjw5ncV7A Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman performs gangnam style. I don't know which to find most unexpected: that she did it in the first place, or that she looks so damn good doing it!

Naughty Boy La La La ft. Sam Smith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O1_3zBUKM8