Bumper stickers linked to road rage?!

Huh. The concept is that you're in a personal space when you're out driving, and that you can't help but see the bumper stickers of the car in front of you, and that constitutes an invasion of your personal space. Interesting concept.

I was in a bit of a hurry when I initially read the article and misinterpreted it.

Basically, they're saying that road rage is an expression of terretorialism and that the people with more personalized cars are more likely to get nasty. From the article, "People who had a larger number of personalized items on or in their car were 16% more likely to engage in road rage, the researchers report in the journal Applied Social Psychology."

When I worked for the police department, I walked into the building through the ramp down to the basement through the crime lab. There was a road rage incident in which two cars were shooting at each other, an uninvolved car was struck by multiple bullets and the driver was killed. That car sat in the basement for several days and I Walked past it for as long as it was there, bullet holes, blood, everything.

Sobers you up a bit on many subjects.

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080613/full/news.2008.889.html

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/17/0148238

Gay men and straight women share a brain physiological feature

Likewise, gay women and straight men. Curious stuff. It's not like this is a definitive thing as they only sampled 90 brains, but it's still interesting.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080616/lf_nm_life/brain_gay_dc;_ylt=AnzsJprTADjBgMlR.zRaMqms0NUE

I think my apartment is the Secret Insect Burial Ground

If you're squicked out by insects, you might not want to proceed beneath the cut....

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