@ trialex,
I was thinking the same thing. I've studied psychology for 5 years in Australia and I think I can safely say that we do NOT perform lobotomies in Australia.

On another note, Walter Freeman is often used as an example by scientologists and others who profess the alleged evils of psychology. That claim that a profession with such a sordid history as psychology must be up to no good. It should be noted here that Freeman was not a psychologist or a psychiatrist. He was a neurologist with no surgical training, and an idiot.

"Gimme those! And those. AND those..."
"Aaaaawwww!"

How do they ship it? I imagine that would be a big job to untangle.

I agree with the practice point. In behavioural studies such as this, it takes a long, long time to teach these skills to an animal.
When I tested the effects of MDMA on rats, it took 30 days of non-stop training for each rat to reach the stage where it would actually be tested and data gathered.
By the end of training, I imagine most of those rats would have performed better than students who had the task described to them and were expected to complete it right away.

Perhaps the act itself of getting the implants has changed her life and the decisions she has made in subtle ways such that had she never had them, she would never have been in the line of fire at that exact moment and in that exact position so as to get shot in the first place.

This is a classic study in social psychology. If anyone is interested in the theory, it's called counterfactual thinking.
This theory can be applied to many other situations e.g. grades - students who gain enough marks to just scrap in with a B will be more satisfied than those who just missed out on an A, despite achieving the same categorical outcome.
It's the "if only I..." versus the "at least I..." attitude.

This version of the song is actually quite different to their single that you hear on the radio.
I actually prefer this version ;)

Wow. I may borrow this idea in my own home.

There's an opposite phenomenon in Australia, where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are given an advantage by having special spots at universities reserved for them to make sure that enough will get in, meaning that their grades don't have to be as high to get into a course.
Considering the disadvantage many indigenous Australians have in health care, education, etc... I think it's a great idea, however I also think that restricting the number of Asians from getting into a course just because of their race is unfair.
I suppose encouraging more Aboriginal people to go study at university isn't going to mean our universities will have "too many" Aboriginal students considering the small indigenous population, so that it won't hurt student diversity. However apart from this factor, essentially the two things are the same. Hmmmmm...

Aren't they cute? I wish they were my papa and mama je'e.

Next on the agenda: SURFING!

I work in a shopping center that has just been renovated and the brand new elevators have close-door buttons. They're right next to the open door buttons (to keep the door open for others to get in), so why shouldn't it work?

A more interesting question is why do people repeatedly press the buttons at traffic lights, or press it when they can see somebody else already has? Surely if the button works, pressing it once should set it into motion. It's not like pressing it repeatedly is going to make it work faster.

Agreed @ both vic and brandie.

These should offset my three wolf moon shirt perfectly.

Looks pretty real to me. As mentioned before, perhaps we have a bigfoot explanation.