The porn predicament: Is it really so ‘bad’?

Can you explain why pornography is “bad”? Men are visual creatures. If masturbation is OK, what are we supposed to see while masturbating? Porn is the visual expression of fantasies. Most women will not make porn for their hubbies or boyfriends these days, as they are afraid it will wind up online. So we have to find our visual stimulation from the “pros” in the porn industry. Again, why exactly is this bad?

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scientists say gene therapy may be on the edge of a resurgence.

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The boy relied on a cane and adults to guide him, and, unable to see blackboard writing, sat in back with a teacher's aide, large-type computer screen and materials in Braille.

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Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because illness or disability prevent them going to school. In the third report in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Will Ross meets children in Tanzania who are overcoming visual impairment to learn.

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Basketball Illusion

This is one of my favorite visual illusions. The goal is to count the number of times the players dressed in white pass the basketball to each other in the movie after the link.

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Everyone has hunches — about friends' motives, about the stock market, about when to fold a hand of poker and when to hold it.

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Why focusing on looks in women causes many men to get hurt!

Most men with whom I get into any kind of conversation around dating and relationships appear keen to boast about one thing: that men are very 'visual' in looking for a partner. Looks matter a lot to them, they stress.

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"The three best visual illusions in the world were chosen at a gathering last weekend of neuroscientists and psychologists at the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Florida."

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Some great photos of the President's first 100 days in office.

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Is censorship still a major issue for visual arts and other issues.

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Adults who play a lot of action video games may be improving their eyesight, U.S. researchers said on Sunday. More Articles

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Turns out that doodling during a class-or ameeting- may increase concentration. it has been long held that multitasking and daydreaming interfer with concentration, Psychologist Jackie Andrate thinks it might be a different story with doodling.

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"We've now shown that both 2-D and 3-D acoustic cloaks theoretically do exist," Cummer said.

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This image depicts the interaction of nine plane waves—expanding sets of ripples, like the waves you would see if you simultaneously dropped nine stones into a still pond. More Articles

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The authors of [an earlier] paper concluded that you could either have perfect invisibility at one color, or imperfect invisibility at three colors.

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Let's get two things clear: I'd rather sit through a good film with bad special effects than a yawn-fest employing the latest tech from Weta digital. Some of the films here are amongst my favourite movies. More Articles

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There are many fantastic SFX shots in cinema history that are artistically 'awesome' without qualifying here. For the purposes of this list, a shot has to be either a) exceptionally convincing, b) ground-breaking or c) an exemplary execution of an oft-used technique.

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Blind and sighted athletes made the same expressions when they won and lost, US researchers found. More Articles

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Comparing the values of cloaking and resonance frequencies, it is seen that the values are interleaved with each other: it may be shown that in general, when passive materials are employed, there is always a resonant peak between two neighboring cloaking frequencies, and vice ver …

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TimeSpace: Election is a map and timeline that allows users to navigate through hundreds of photos, video, articles, tweets, posts and audio from around the country.

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...a simulated layer system with the Transmission Line Matrix (TLM) Modelling method, which is able to hide, in certain frequencies, the objects placed in an electromagnetic simulator. Such studies are the germ to achieve invisibility to radars or even to the human eye...

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Spend even a little time around chimpanzees, and you begin to realize how intelligent they are. But can they outshine humans in brain power? Most humans would scoff at that.

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Marvel.com is putting together a handy dandy guide, to go along with all it's other nifty visual guides, for the World War Hulk Series that started coming out May 2nd with Incredible Hulk #106.

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Ever since the introduction of the iPhone at this year's MacWorld, people have been raving about its seemingly never-ending feature set. Well now, one of the iPhone's most anticipated features - "Visual Voicemail" is available to anyone with a mobile phone.

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How is this done? Can you post your solution? cool riddle!

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The "coolest bookmarklet" challenge

The challenge is about making the coolest bookmarklet for Internet Explorer in just 508 bytes! The goal of this challenge is to present the world with the visually coolest bookmarklets ever. So join the fun at

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