I thought I'd go to a craft fair, and there would be a jar of jellybeans there - "Guess how many jellybeans are in this jar, and win a prize". Aw, come on, man, let just me have some. I'll tell you what, guess how many jellybeans I want! If you guessed a handful, you are right.

I could swear I read about this, or maybe heard an NPR segment about this, some time in the past six months. Seriously. I'm pretty sure. Anyway, it sounds cool. As I get older, I notice that ... well, I think that I'm noticing that I take longer to learn new information.

That sounds ... interesting.

I'd bet that, someday, someone will an even smaller and tighter black hole.

I'm imagining a Titicaca frog + cane toad smoothie. That would have quite a kick.

I'd be interested to see how gay men and women performed in the study compared with their same-age hetero counterparts.

There is something wrong with this whole thread. I posted on it yesterday many hours after it had been put on Gawker, and there were no comments visible. I was reading it on my phone, which only shows starred and promoted, and didn't consider using the Gawker.ca version. Anyway, it's maybe some weird techmological…

I was a huge baseball fan until the strike of '94. I've only been to a handful of games since. I no longer care about any major sports; I appreciate good plays for their cleverness or athleticism, but I no longer care about the outcomes. Baseball has ruined itself in myriad ways.

Hearted. Too funny to ignore!

I agree the quoted numbers are probably backwards. If so, then he's a great anecdote to illustrate.

Yes, they have made it a hassle. In our cases, we had to wait for both a male and a female agent, and that took an extra minute or two... which was odd because there were quite a few other families doing the same thing. But the agents were perfectly nice.

I'm against the scanner (radiation seems like a bad idea), so if I have to get checked through an airport, I opt for the pat-down. They're kind of inconsistent, though.

Thanks. I understood that this was a two-way street, but as a straight guy, I can't gauge just how much women do it to men and so forth, including those in the gay and bi communities. And I am with you when it comes to the 'ick' response. By the way, I also get that feeling when I see a woman smoking; I'm immediately…

Straight guy (and psych major in an earlier life) perspective:

I did a Google search for that surname and came up a bit empty. But there are a good number of Heynigers. I'm guessing (a) you misremembered it or (b) her surname was the rare exception. The single-g version looks like a somewhat oddly spelled Germanic name.

Well I am Mexican so I am lazy.

I believe what many of these people are trying to say is: Get thyself to Gawker.

I didn't realize "virgin" was a character flaw. Possibly a symptom of one, yes, but a flaw in itself?

I'd be willing to bet that she was kidding with that comment. Still, the show looks pretty sad, as in 'I pity the women on the show because of their lack of confidence.' And as for a 25-year-old virgin: While there's nothing wrong with that, per se, she made it fairly clear that she's uncomfortable with her body and…

I don't know if this is related, but the idea of switching off allergies first came to my attention about 5 or 6 years ago. There was an article about using hookworms to combat asthma. I heard an NPR piece about something similar. Basically, a man named Jasper Lawrence flew down to an area in the Amazon (I think) and…