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Tufts University creates a campus of sexiles

Em and Lo — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:00:55 +0000

photo by methTICALman Ah, college. The beer pong, the all-nighters, the walks of shame, the pillow over your head so you can't hear your roommate's drunken hook-up... Well, Tufts University has gone and ruined the last of these fond memories. A new campus policy is meant to deal with an issue that was previously managed via ear plugs and/or drinking so much that you'd sleep through an earthquake: roommate sex.

Scientists debunk beer goggles theory

Em and Lo — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:00:09 +0000

photo by two dolla Turns out you can no longer blame booze the next time you wake up in a coyote ugly situation. In fact, researchers at the University of Leicester in England found that drinking alcohol actually reduces the attractiveness of the opposite sex. Participants in the study, in various stages of intoxication, were [...]

Enter Sandman: simple filter could provide a safe water solution for millions

Jeff McIntire-Strasburg — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:20:07 +0000

World Water Week has just ended; the need for clean, safe drinking water in many parts of the developing world hasn’t, however. While some scientists and engineers have focused on high-tech solutions to this crisis, Dr. Jeffrey Amburgey and his students at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte ground their water purification research in [...]