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For a couple of decades now, social psychologists and behavioral economists have been amusing themselves manipulating consumers into doing odd things. They’ve delighted in debunking the notion of homo economicus, that theoretical creature who rationally seeks maximum economic utility.

Old-fashioned cost-conscious consumers would react to a price increase by lowering demand for the product, but we sometimes do just the opposite. We want to buy more of it because we assume it must be a better product — and we’re so thoroughly fooled that our bodies even respond differently to it.

via Link: Calculating Consumer Happiness at Any Price.

Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine.

She was reporting to a parliamentary hearing on security for poppy crops.

Link: Stoned wallabies make crop circles.

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How do conmen convince you to part with your money? Who are they? And how do they choose their victims? Learn their secrets from someone who has studied their dark arts. Magician Nick Johnson has some interesting insights into psychology of scams…and some suggestions on how to stop your money from going up in smoke!

Link: The Psychology of Conmen.

A mum has lost four stone after being hypnotised into believing she has a gastric stomach band.

A therapist convinced Marion Corns, 35, she had had surgery to fit the band by talking her through the procedure while in a trance.

Hospital smells were even pumped into the room to boost the effect.

Housewife Marion, who has slimmed from 15st 6lb to 11st 7lb, said: “Bizarrely I can even ‘remember’ being wheeled into theatre, the clink of the surgeon’s knife and smell of the anaesthetic.”

Link: Mum loses 4 stone with imaginary ‘gastric band’ after being hypnotised.

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Today, we are pulling out some goodies from the archives for everyone. Every city has its own gang history, part of Chicago’s are Gang cards, most prominent in the 70’s and early 80’s, back in the day when a gang was more of a neighborhood crew then what it is today. Fists, bats, and bottles days, before guns became the norm in the gang. Most of the gangs were just about the neighborhood and hanging out together. Stock art from the printer as well as some hand drawn illustrations were the back bone of many of the cards. Some cards are pretty humorous, with some off the wall illustrations, logos, sayings, and rhymes. They don’t make them like they used to…

Link: CHICAGO’S LESSER KNOWN ARTS HISTORY LESSON or OG ART GALLERY.

Allelbows.com proudly present the first in a three part series, Kingdom of Mayhem: Road to Dream MW Championship. We follow MMA veteran and MTV star, Jason “Mayhem” Miller, as he prepares for his rematch with Brazilian MMA star and BJJ master, Jacare.

Link: Kingdom of Mayhem: Road to Dream MW Championship, pt.1.

Air pollution has long been a fact of life in Spanish cities, but scientists now say that it is not just smog that chokes people as they walk to work or stroll through the park.

A new study has found the air in Madrid and Barcelona is also laced with at least five drugs – most prominently cocaine.

The Superior Council of Scientific Investigations, a government institute, said on its website that in addition to cocaine, it found trace amounts of amphetamines, opiates, cannabinoids and lysergic acid -a relative of LSD – in air-quality control stations in the cities.

Link: Cocaine and LSD found in air of Spanish cities.

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