‘That’s What She Said’ – Scientists Develop Software That Tells Dirty Jokes

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Since the days of Chaucer and Shakespeare, double entendres have been making us laugh. B ut computers haven’t had the capability to tell jokes until now.  Two computer scientists at the University of Washington, Chloé Kiddon and Yuriy Brun, have developed a system for recognizing a particular type of double entendre – the “that’s what she said” joke. The double entendre are seemingly innocent sentences that can be transformed into lewd utterances by appending just four short words.

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The Headless Organization

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“The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense,
while substance has an affinity for income”
– Dee Hock, former CEO of Visa

Futurist Thomas Frey:  Disintermediation is a term that sprung to life in the mid-1990s during the formative years of the Internet. Enterprising people learned very quickly that this new communication system could disintermediate, or bypass, many different layers of the business food chain and eliminate entire categories of decision makers both inside and outside of corporations.

 

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Left Handed People are More Affected by Fear than Right Handed People

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“The prevalence of post traumatic stress disorder is almost double in left handers compared to right handers.”

People who watched an eight minute clip from a scary movie suffered more symptoms associated with post traumatic stress if they were left handed than if they were right handed, phsychologists find.

Five Minute Questionnaire is Accurate Enough to Diagnose Autism in 1 Year Old Children

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Parents are asked about a child’s eye-gaze and other forms of age-appropriate communication.

Parents can fill out a five-minute questionnaire that is accurate enough to diagnose autism in children as young as one in three-quarters of the cases, claims study.

 

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Introducing the Slashcasters

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Slashcasters, a new breed of pitchmen for the digital age of retail

Futurist Thomas Frey:  I was recently asked to do the keynote talk at a retailer conference in Orlando, Florida speaking on the topic of what the future of retail may hold. At one point in the conversation, the caller made the comment that one of the biggest problems in retail is that consumers are evolving faster than retailers can adapt.

 

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Teaching Responsible Drinking By Allowing Teens to Drink Under Supervision Backfires

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Allowing teens to drink backfires.

Parents begin to worry as prom night approaches.  They are worried about what might happen during after hour parties.  Some parents might be tempted to try to teach their high schoolers to drink responsibly – by allowing them to consume alcohol under supervision.

 

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Brown Recluse Spider Population Boom Result of Climate Change

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Brown recluse spider

The brown recluse are one of the most feared spiders in North America.  And now the brown recluse – or Loxosceles reclusa – spider population is growing, and predicted to expand into the northern states as a result of climate change.

 

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FTC Proposes Stricter Guidelines on Food Ads for Children

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Regulators are asking food makers and restaurant companies to make a choice: make your products healthier or stop advertising them to youngsters.

The Federal Trade Commission has proposed sweeping new guidelines that could push the food industry to overhaul how it advertises cereal, soda pop, snacks, restaurant meals and other foods to children.

 

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