Saturday, December 28, 2013

The Top Ten Sexiest Actors and Actresses of All Time?

Empire Magazine is a magazine that focuses on the wonderful world of movies...



...and they presented their readers with a task which was: vote on the sexiest actors and actresses of all time. And they did. And, you know what, I'm going to blog about it. Ready? Sure, you are.

Real quick, classic beauties are basically devoid on this list, so I'm going to call this list: The Sexiest Actors and Actresses Voted on by People That Have Only Watched Movies Since the Year 2010.

And without further ado, first up, the dudes, from ten to one:

#10. Bradley Cooper.



#09. Hugh Jackman.



#08. Michael Fassbender.



#07. Robert Pattinson.



#06. Chris Hemsworth.



#05. Robert Downey, Jr.



#04. Ryan Gosling.



#03. Henry Cavill.



#02. Tom Hiddleston.



#01. Benedict Cumberbatch.



Talk about a British invasion.

Now, if I were to re-rank these muscle-ly dudes according to talent chops, here's how my ten to one list would go (are you ready for some debate?):

#10. Pattinson.

#09. Cavill.

#08. Cooper.

#07. Hemsworth.

#06. Hiddleston.

#05. Jackman.

#04. Downey, Jr.

#03. Gosling.

#02. Fassbender.

#01. Cumberbatch.

Fassbender, Cumberbatch, 100% accurate. No debate.

Alright, time to do the ladies. Sexy ladies from ten to one:

#10. Zoe Saldana (lol, of all time?).



#09. Angelina Jolie (that's fair).



#08. Natalie Portman (yes!).



#07. Mila Kunis (also yes!!).



#06. Emma Stone (yes a third time!!!).



#05. Anne Hathaway (very annoyed but yes).



#04. Kristen Stewart (NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!).



#03. Jennifer Lawrence (yeah).



#02. Scarlett Johansson (yeah).



#01. Emma Watson.



Okay, real quick, I feel like the list isn't indicative of actuality and people need to understand the obvious difference between "sexy" and "cute". Also, more importantly, no K. Stew for me! A pass!! Thank you very much; and allow me to rate these lovely ladies on a talent scale:

#10. Stewart.

#09. Kunis.

#08. Saldana.

#07. Watson.

#06. Johansson.

#05. Hathaway.

#04. Lawrence.

#03. Jolie.

#02. Portman.

#01. Stone.

Well, there you go, Guys. So are the lists: two sexy, two talents. No personality lists because really, I don't know any of these people, so I choose to objectify them.

So, go make a list, in the comment section down below. Was I wrong about my lists? Why don't you make a sexy list, and/or a talent list, or a list about anything that you want. I will read them and appreciate your efforts. Also, when you guys are done with all those tasks that I just presented you with, please click that share button.

The Top Secret DNA of a New, Incurable Botulinum Toxin

In scary science, scientists have discovered an incurable botulinum strain, whose DNA sequence they're keeping secret because of terrorism concerns.



Some people actually inject this stuff in their face to get rid of wrinkles. These are natural chemicals made by bacteria, and very recently, a team found a brand new strain.



And get this: if you inhale just thirteen one billionth of a gram, you would die from it!



The scientists say that they discovered this strain from the fecal matter of a baby that suffered from botulism.



It's the first new strain to be discovered in over forty years. And this is the first time that scientists have kept the DNA sequence secret because of concerns that terrorists could use information published about the DNA sequence (that codes for the toxin), to make a dangerously potent bioweapon.

OkCupid Doesn't Seem So Okay

Popular dating site, OkCupid (you know, the free one), has used all those annoying questions that people answer for good, for "science".



They've mashed the data and numbers to compile OkTrends, and give us pervy, little nuggets of goodness, like this:

°Women who don't exercise, have a harder time orgasming.



Lol, "science".



°Men prefer rougher sex as they get older; while women start out wanting it a little bit crazier, and then, one sweet, gentle loving.



Despite sayings like "mouth-saging the kielbasa"...



...vegetarians enjoy giving oral sex more than carnivores.





°And, Twitter users not only have shorter relationships...



...but they tend to jimmy their ham more frequently.



°Lol, typing about ham jimmying, according to OkTrends, agnostic folks charm the cobra the most; while over 20% of Jewish users claim to have never freed the willy.



°People who love the taste of beer are more likely to get their groove on, on date one (that seems legit).

°And, for the tech angle, iPhone users have more sexual partners than both Blackberry and Android users (I want to kill myself).

°Short chicks and tall dudes tend to get more attention than the opposites for their gender.

°And, some may be surprised to know that curvy ladies have both more self-confidence and higher sex-drive than skinny women.



°Guys have the same peak sex-drive, no matter what their body type is. Every body type is get-it-on size.

°Also, the most expensive colleges have higher horny levels (No shit!).

Do keep in mind that these stats are from hundreds of millions of users on OkCupid, and not necessarily large, just interesting findings.

So, what personal data do you have, to either prove, or negate these findings? Leave your interesting and creative response in the comments down below. If you'd also like to rig out your private sexual experiences in the comment section, feel free, lol. Don't forget to click that share button (if you haven't already).

StarCraft is the SmartCraft

Coming straight from the video game-loving eggheads from Queen Mary University of London, is a bit of research suggesting that playing strategy games like StarCraft...



...Civilization...



...and even Plants vs Zombies...



...may boost your noggin power.

Here's what went down: researchers wrangled up 72 volunteers to play 40 hours of video games, over a 6-8 week period. Not that bad. However (fun catch here), most of the volunteers were women...



...because they needed participants that played less than two hours a week, and as a result, they found very few males that fit that criteria. Lol, I play like...I play a lot...I play a lot of games.

Way to go, Guys! Imagine being that one guy that didn't play video games much, and walked into the study, only to be surrounded by gaming ladies!!

So, the 72 people were split up. Half played StarCraft, and half played The Sims...



...and after the fact, researchers found that the StarCraft players scored the silly Sim-ers.



Strategy game players' performance and psychological tests increased, and they leveled up their speed and accuracy in cognitive flexibility tests. I like the sound of cognitive flexibility; there's this cute chick, she's so cognitively flexible, she put her medulla oblongata behind the cerebellum.

So, basically what happened is that they (the StarCraft players) became multitasking superstars. Additionally, researchers discovered that the brave souls who journeyed through the game at higher difficulty settings scored higher on the test than those pantzies scrolling through the easy settings; smarter, braver, multitaskier. We're just baby steps away from Ender's Game, People!



Hopefully, these games (as opposed to twitch response first shooters) require a difference kind of thinking, planning, and strategery; as a result, brain agility gets to work out. Hold on, I think my brain's sweating......no, it's just brain fluid.

Researcher, Dr. Brian Glass said:



Also, Dr. Glass goes on to explain that there are some mighty intriguing possibilities connected to these findings. He says...



...and whether these cognitive boosts are...



...once we have that understanding...



I need to play some video games.

Look, we're just bettering the world through hours of gaming. Seriously though, go do your laundry; but before you go, what other ways do you think video games help slowly turn us into super versions of ourselves? Leave your interesting and creative response in the comment section down below. After you're done with that task, click the share button.

Friday, December 27, 2013

The Top Ten Most and Least Corrupt Countries in the World

Transparency International is the neighborhood watchdog of government. This governmentally unaffiliated organization takes it upon itself to analyze the corruption levels of all the nations, governments, and corporations. Even crunched those dirty numbers and slimy facts, to produce a list of the worst kind of corrupted governments (downright nasty), and the squeakiest of clean countries in the world.

This year's list is lovingly called the Corruption Perceptions Index, and the 177 participants were graded on a curve.

So, let's kick it all off with the ten most corrupt countries:



#10. Syria.



#09. Turkmenistan.



#08. Uzbekistan.



#07. Iraq.



#06. Libya.



#05. South Sudan.

#04. Sudan.

#03. Afghanistan.



#02. North Korea.



#01. Somalia.



And now, to the top ten least corrupt countries:



#10. Canada.



#09. Australia.



#08. Netherlands.



#07. Switzerland.



#06. Singapore.

#05. Norway.



#04. Sweden.



#03. Finland.



#02. New Zealand.

#01. Denmark.



So, if you're planning on making a move, shoot for the Scandinavian countries, or one of the nice British commonwealths. And, incase you're wondering (because I know you are), the U.S. is #19. My darling country Nigeria is #144, and quite frankly, I'm nowhere near surprised.