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Back in 1991, Mark Knopfler sang"Sex and money are my major kicksGet me in a fight I like the dirty tricks"Now twenty years later a team of French neuroscientists have followed up on this observation with a neuroimaging study: The Architecture of Reward Value Coding in the Human Orbitofrontal Cortex.Sescousse et al note that people like erotic stimuli, i.e. porn, and they also like money. However, there's a difference: porn is, probably, a more "primitive" kind of rewarding stimulus, given that

Entertainment, fashion and media mogul Russell Simmons speaks with WSJ's Lee Hawkins as part of "WSJ Weekend Conversations" Simmons, the "Godfather of Hip-hop music" and the founder of Phat Farm clothing, talks about his new show "Running Russell Simmons," his charitable work and his activism around the "Ground Zero" mosque.

I'll give away my Viral Wars prize (should I manage to win one) to any person who I don't know outside the internet (no friends, relatives, or my alternate buzzfeed accounts in other words) who does one of the following two things - 1. Gives me the working concept for a post which makes my top position in the viral wars contest, or failing that - 2. gives my top viral wars post the most viral boost. More complete details on how the top assister will be determined are here. Double your chances of winning! Читать дальше...

Just two weeks after the first solo flight of Virgin Galactic's space tourist ship, the company's bigwigs gathered again to celebrate the completion of the two-mile, 200-foot wide runway of the world's first commercial spaceport. Spaceport America is the world's first facility designed specifically to launch commercial spacecraft. The celebration of its nearly-two-mile-long runway comes less than two weeks after another major step for Virgin Galactic: the first solo glide flight of its space