Let's plunder Wikipedia!

[Proletar]

Ahoy, buckos!


'Tis a great journey at hand, laddies. At our horizon lies a great and vast kingdom of godly knowledge. No great adversary, no ancient Kraken on the way there, and our rivaling looters have since long kicked the bucket. We have the finest crew of surfers available for the task at hand - to dig up this golden knowledge that is surrounded by boring and uninteresting knowledge.

Let's post some interesting articles on wikipedia!

Rule nr.1, enforced with capital punishment: Explain why your article is interesting. I'll demonstrate:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_messages
People are being fucked with in all new ways. From "Drink Coke" to having information tapped right into your brain without you even knowing it? That's a huge leap. And when you begin to think about it, it's not all just about commercials either. I would say the previously mentioned form of this phenomena is all part of social ques. And with that light to this article, it becomes interesting to me, since I have a hard time figuring those out. Does that mean I'm not as sensitive to subliminal messages? Food for thought.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day (seems we missed it)
So that's why there's a pirate-speak option on facebook! Goddamn, that's insane. An inside joke amongst two friends that they could make a living of? That millions of dollars are being invested in? Also it's interesting how the church of the flying spaghetti-monster managed to entangle the day into a holiday of their own.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norilsk
Norilsk is hell on earth. A big city within the arctic circle, with lethal low temperatures... And a nickel-mine? Are you kidding me? First they freeze half to death, and then get allergic reactions from the metal? What a life. I feel cold inside in many ways just reading about it.


There. I've given you people three articles just to get you started, so it's basically totally ok if you just post one. After all, one (1) good quality article is better than twenty stupid ones. Let's carry the loot back to the ship and divide the plunder!

 

[joal0503]

Proton-Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy


an advanced and cool ass nuclear magnetic resonance technique, acronymically known as PENIS.

Invented by Michael Gibby and Alexander Pines. "Pines" being yes, an ANAGRAM for PENIS.


- Most Mature Person in the World

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Introspection_illusion
Cognitive and social introverts on typology forums tend to praise themselves for their introspective abilities / lifestles, so I think this is relevant.

West Port murders
A real account of "for science!"

Isaac Newton's occult studies
Isaac Newton is considered to be one of the greatest intellectuals; his eclectic occult work should be no less interesting, and at least worth a browse.

Proton-Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy

an advanced and cool ass nuclear magnetic resonance technique, acronymically known as PENIS.

Spoiler

"In the PENIS technique, the natural polarization of an abundant spin is exploited to increase the polarization of a rare spin for approximately 1.89 nanoseconds, by irradiating the sample with radio waves at the frequency which corresponds to the difference between the rotation frequencies of the two different spins."

 

[snafupants]

Introspection_illusion
Cognitive and social introverts on typology forums tend to praise themselves for their introspective abilities / lifestles, so I think this is relevant.

West Port murders
A real account of "for science!"

Isaac Newton's occult studies
Isaac Newton is considered to be one of the greatest intellectuals; his eclectic occult work should be no less interesting, and at least worth a browse.

Spoiler

"In the PENIS technique, the natural polarization of an abundant spin is exploited to increase the polarization of a rare spin for approximately 1.89 nanoseconds, by irradiating the sample with radio waves at the frequency which corresponds to the difference between the rotation frequencies of the two different spins."​

It might be possible to be a genius without being an intellectual. Some mathematicians, for instance, make tremendous breakthroughs but remain basically reclusive degenerates. Bolstering the case, there are thousands of intellectuals who are not geniuses.

 

[Cognisant]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norilsk
Norilsk is hell on earth. A big city within the arctic circle, with lethal low temperatures... And a nickel-mine? Are you kidding me? First they freeze half to death, and then get allergic reactions from the metal? What a life. I feel cold inside in many ways just reading about it.

I want to live there, I've never wanted anything more in my life.