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THE AVENGERS Reimagined as Sengoku Samurai Heroes. Artist Alex Mitchell has taken the characters from The Avengers, and given them an awesome samurai style makover.

THE AVENGERS Reimagined as Sengoku Samurai Heroes

The art was inspired by the the Sengoku period also known as the Warring States period in Japanese history. It was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict that lasted from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century. Mr. Marcus Admits Starting Porn Syphilis Outbreak By Altering His Test Results. Every outbreak has a patient zero.

Mr. Marcus Admits Starting Porn Syphilis Outbreak By Altering His Test Results

Porn actor Mr. Our real first gay president. The new issue of Newsweek features a cover photo of President Obama topped by a rainbow-colored halo and captioned “The First Gay President.”

Our real first gay president

The halo and caption strike me as cheap sensationalism. Dopamine. Dopamine (contracted from 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine) is a hormone (also known as Prolactin Inhibiting Hormone/Factor - PIH or PIF) and neurotransmitter of the catecholamine and phenethylamine families that plays a number of important roles in the human brain and body.

Dopamine

Its name derives from its chemical structure: it is an amine that is formed by removing a carboxyl group from a molecule of L-DOPA. In the brain, dopamine functions as a neurotransmitter—a chemical released by nerve cells to send signals to other nerve cells. The brain includes several distinct dopamine systems, one of which plays a major role in reward-motivated behavior. Spaceship Enterprise in 20 years? Beam me up! - Technology & science - Space. Social media offers brain sex-like reward; Posting on Facebook offers a rush. ©Zagorodnaya/shutterstock.com 'Self disclosure' causes a response in the pleasure region of the brain: Harvard study.

Social media offers brain sex-like reward; Posting on Facebook offers a rush

Posting views on Facebook and other social media sites delivers a powerful reward to the brain similar to the pleasure from food and sex, a Harvard study concludes. The study led by two neuroscientists and published this week concluded that "self disclosure" produces a response in the region of the brain associated with dopamine, a chemical associated with pleasure or the anticipation of a reward. The researchers said most people devote 30 to 40 percent of their speech to "informing others of their own subjective experiences" but that on social media, this is closer to 80 percent.

Skin is wearing thin on HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ The second season isn’t much better.

Skin is wearing thin on HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’

AshleyMadison Puts $1 Million Bounty On Tebow's V-Card. Tim Tebow poses for a Jockey ad.

AshleyMadison Puts $1 Million Bounty On Tebow's V-Card

Family tree of the Greek gods. Key: The essential Olympians' names are given in bold font.

Family tree of the Greek gods

See also List of Greek mythological figures Notes External links Media related to Family trees of Greek mythology at Wikimedia Commons. Hot 100 - 2012. 100 Skills Every Man Should Know: 2008s Ultimate DIY List - Popular Mechanics - StumbleUpon. The Sky Is Rising. 136 Creepy Wikipedia Articles. Bible. Whoops!

Bible

Maybe you were looking for BIBLE!? The most recent edition of the Bible, seen here with an appropriate warning label. The Holy Bible (also known as The Holy Bile), is a wholly ghost-written anthology of children's fairy tales, although it is also enjoyed by adults.[1] It is one of the best selling fiction works of all time[2] and encompasses various genres, including action, drama, mystery, musical, mythology, tragedy, poetry, thriller, adventure, fantasy, horror, historical fiction, pornography, and snuff.

40 Unwritten Rules to Live By - StumbleUpon. 2.

40 Unwritten Rules to Live By - StumbleUpon

It is more important to have good health insurance than good health. 3. Is Facebook Sexualizing Young Girls? Is the pressure of social media causing kids to act too sexy, too soon? Adolescence can be a tricky time for even the most well-adjusted kid out there. Add technology and social media to the equation, though, and young teens can find themselves facing the kind of scrutiny once reserved only for celebrities. They're constantly in front of a camera (usually in the form of a smartphone or a webcam), the images open to criticism from peers and strangers alike.

In a bid to be -- or remain -- popular, many kids are posing in increasingly provocative, and inappropriate, ways. Is Facebook forcing young girls to be too sexual, too soon? [Related: Facebook "Friend" offer exposes man's other wife] Why the #$%! Do We Swear? For Pain Relief. Bad language could be good for you, a new study shows. For the first time, psychologists have found that swearing may serve an important function in relieving pain.

The study, published today in the journal NeuroReport, measured how long college students could keep their hands immersed in cold water. During the chilly exercise, they could repeat an expletive of their choice or chant a neutral word. When swearing, the 67 student volunteers reported less pain and on average endured about 40 seconds longer. Although cursing is notoriously decried in the public debate, researchers are now beginning to question the idea that the phenomenon is all bad. How swearing achieves its physical effects is unclear, but the researchers speculate that brain circuitry linked to emotion is involved. How to tell in 15 minutes whether someone likes you - by Bridget Webber. Bridget Webber's image for: "Body Language that Shows when someone of the Opposite Sex Fancies you" Sexual chemistry: How brain chemicals that divide us into four personality groups are the key to finding perfect love...

By Louise Atkinson Updated: 08:20 GMT, 22 February 2011 Who knows why Brad Pitt chose Angelina Jolie over Jennifer Aniston or why Helena Bonham-Carter prefers to live in a separate house to her long-term partner Tim Burton? The course of true love is a complex combination of personality, circumstance, upbringing and timing, but an eminent U.S. anthropologist claims to have uncovered a key secret to why some relationships work and others prove to be a little more tricky.