I don't know if I was hornier. I've had a persistently high sex drive. However I was much more bored a lot of the time when I was younger and not having shit to do really is a great way for your mind to wander to sex

No it ( for me at least and at least hand other people I'd not all) is a very different sensation. I know this because I first discovered this and how much better it felt when a condom split during sex and suddenly there was a party on my pen is and everyone was invited. It's a hugely different sensation I distinctly…

'Rape isn't a lapse of control or restraint' - isn't it?

Just to be argumentative presumably most rapists don't rape all the time at every opportunity.

Most violent crime is a lapse of control or restraint, it's not pre-meditated that's a tiny proportion of violent crime. If you asked most rapists in a normal situation…

Is that enough to really be statistically significant? Repeat the experiment with a wider range of applications putting more variety in so you start teasing out other variables etc and you might have something reliable.

As it is it could be that Michelle is a more popular name. Or not. But until you do better studies…

Why are they not?

Isn't basically everything anyone does pretty much manipulating emotions.

Much of the modern tech era has come along hand in hand with design to specifically evoke emotions. Why is it ok for a paper to put headlines to manipulate emotions but not ok for facebbok to do basically the same?

What I don't get is why people are so angry at facebook for this (well I do it's because of an anti-facebook bandwagon) but not almost every single other company that conducts random experiments of this nature.

Why aren't you complaining about your supermarkets or a thousand other companies who randomise things to try…

Photorealism is the arse end of art yet people on the internet go crazy for posting pictures of it despite it being no different that the photo realism of the 1930s.

It's a skill few can master (although Tim's Vermeer gives an idea of how many people could with enough patience and a bit of equipment) that is true and…

That's how most religious people are. But Dawkins and myself and thousands of others describes ourselves as atheist because it's the more useful and easy term and people understand what he means and we are pretty sure god doesn't exist and should act as though there is no god.

Also the origin of a word and it's use now…

And afterwards we drop into a quiet little place and have a drink or two

So are there a load of these videos (presumably unpublished) where nut jobs doing this fail to do whatever and die? Some must have done.

Except it is inconclusive. And it is but it's more complicated than that.

The evidence suggests two things that seem to contradict each other that a) an individual is safer when wearing a helmet but also that b) helmets do not increase the safety of the entire population. This does actually sort of make sense when you…

Do you think there is a way to create a female equivalent of the MAMILs (middle-aged men in lycra) whose numbers have exploded in the last 5 years (at least in the UK and I gather to some extent in the US as well)?

However the growth while notable across all ages and demographics it's overwhelmingly been 30+ men and…

Is this an American thing because that absolutely isn't the case in the UK.

No, there have been a number of serious newspaper/magazine articles on it. It is massively driving up gold prices as the Indian middle classes has emerged and even creates it's own social and economic problems as people in India just put money into gold, which then often leaves the country etc and they don't keep it…

It's a film about cloned dinosaurs. Facts aren't really a part of it.

I sort of expected the UK to get in the top ten, but rates of drinking have fallen pretty sharply in the UK in the last 10 years and no one is really sure why (and if I recall correctly it started before the recession so that isn't a reason).

Due to similarities in culture etc etc I imagine Ireland may well be similar.

I also dare to think while very good he's still massively overrated and I can name a good 20 comedians who are far and away his superior just off hand.

He's no Daniel Kitson or Stewart Lee that's for sure.

I always find fat women tend to have an easier ride than fat men though.

A lot of men find fat women attractive. The reverse is rarely true.

The point is more that 5 minutes reading reviews from people in the know will show you beats are an inferior and overpriced product compared to other stuff you can buy for far less.

It's impressive, but ultimately boring. You might as well take a photo.

The protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Bluebeard (a favourite of mine and severely underrated in his cannon) is a failed artist who never succeed in the abstract impressionist art he adored. He was a man who learnt to draw and paint…