30 April 2010

The perfect present for a factotum.

phriday photos


super impressive behemotii astia negri

more here

29 April 2010

Vicentral Intelligence Agency

A former rising star at the CIA accused of drugging, raping and taping Muslim women while stationed in the Middle East appeared before a federal judge in Virginia today after skipping a pre-trial hearing more than a week ago and going on what sources called an apparent drug binge.

Serious Naming is serious

SOCA - Serious Organized Crime Agency

Farktastic!

First Bugatti Veyron imported to Holland is now first Bugatti Veyron seized by Dutch police for speeding



slightly unrelated link

Stuff to do when you're bored - Discover a church beneath your house

A bored family in Shropshire, England, after having a few too many drinks one night, started playing around with an air grate in their living room floor—which they managed to lift up and out of its grid, crawl through and under the house, and there discover an entire church sitting in the darkness where a basement should be. It was a "dark chapel complete with a large wooden cross on the floor."


[post omagiu albumului omonim al Andrei Matzal]

The WOW of living organisms: the Symbion.



A feeding animal living on a lobster's mouthparts: this individual – it's hard to assign a sex – can then produce one of three kinds of offspring: a "Pandora" larva, a "Prometheus" larva or a female.

28 April 2010

moșeala

27 April 2010

gri@rokolectiv @otopeni si @mnac

the turzi mission
by Guelme


ora 12.00. suna telefonul. dana. ghelme, trebuie sa faci ceva, trebuie sa te duci la aeroport sa iei un cantaret la ora 2. si multe alte lucruri pe care nu le-am retinut pentru ca dormeam de fix 4 ore. pun ceasul sa sune peste 35 de minute si ma culc la loc.

ora 12.35. am mai vorbit cu cel putin patru persoane despre ce trebuie sa fac, fara sa acumulez in plus altceva decat informatia ca radu ma va insoti. decid sa ma trezesc si sa vad ce e de facut.

ora 12.45. ies din dus si il sun pe radu. dude, tu stii cine e asta pe care tre sa-l luam? nu conteaza daca ai auzit de el, important e sa stii cum arata. nu, ok, i-ai scris numele, ok.

ora 13.10 il culeg pe radu care a scris turzi pe un a3 cum scriam eu in clasa a cincea cand porneam cu niste litere de parca foaia avea cinci metri latime si pe urma incepeam sa tai din font ca sa nu scriu pe banca

ora 13.30. primele intrebari nu intarzie sa apara. ce muzica ii punem in masina? nu exista decat un singur raspuns corect si il stiu. compilatia fgm. dap.

ora 13.45, in aeroport, radu se decide sa faca un pic de research. imi arata o poza cu un tip cu niste ochi tulburi de betivan. cauta si o biografie a lui pe net, gen sa avem despre ce discuta cu el in masina la intoarcere. nu gaseste nimic, al doilea hit pe google este cursa roman campia turzii. ii sugerez last fm. se uita pe last.fm si respiram usurati. da, exista pe last.fm. marturisesc sincer ca daca nu era pe last.fm ma duceam direct la masina/acasa/pat. n-are biografie, are doar un stub, zice radu.

ora 14.00 avionul intarzie 35 de minute.

ora 14.20 eu iau a3-ul si ma postez la sosiri. radu si-a dorit dintotdeauna sa astepte pe cineva cu pancarta in mana, dar acum parca nu-i vine

ora 14.25. vine o tipa la noi tarand dupa ea pe cineva care arata la fel de rupt de context ca si mine si radu. buna, voi il asteptati pe turzi? eu il astept pe dan deacon. mie imi vine o idee. nu vrei sa facem schimb? al tau are macar pagina mai ca lumea pe last.fm? renunt la schimb cand realizez ca daca apar fara turzi o sa ma puna dana sa gatesc 3 saptamani la omnivore. nu sa gatesc, sa spal vasele, ma incurajeaza asistenta.

ora 14.30. apare dan deacon. radu se duce sa isi faca o poza cu el. ideea lui radu despre a iti face o poza cu dan deacon intr-un terminal de 100 de metri latime este sa il pozezi pe dan deacon de la 30 de metri peste si printre capetele unor oameni in timp ce el sta intors spre altcineva.probabil ca daca s-ar fi dus sa isi faca o poza cu el asa cum intelege restul omenirii chestia asta, s-ar fi bucurat omu sa vada ca nici n-a pus bine piciorul in tara si e asaltat de fani.

ora 14.35. intrebarile ne chinuiesc. la ce canta asta? e cu chitari, cu contrabas, cu chestii d-astea? daca apare asta cu o ditamai chitara unde dracu o pun eu ca masina e mica. of.

ora 14.45. iese un grup care clar a venit cu air france. intre ei, un individ care incepe sa gesticuleze catre noi. ne indreptam catre el, dar radu cauta febril pe mobil poza si imi zice: dude, asta nu seamana cu turzi. eu ma uit la poza, ma uit la barbosul cu pricina si ii zic lui radu sa stea linistit ca il intreb. nu plec cu oricine. ma duc direct la el. are you turzi? no, I´m not turzi, I´m mat. I play with turzi. e dimineata, noi n-am dormit prea mult, nici cand ne-am culcat nu ne era bine, nu suntem neaparat in forma. il intreb inca o data. we are supposed to pick up turzi. are you turzi? no, I´m not turzi, but I play in the turzi band. aha, so turzi is a band, not a person. no, turzi is a person, but also a band and I play in that band. fara sa imi fie foarte clara toata povestea, decid sa fac un leap of faith si ii arat pe unde s-o luam spre masina.

ora 14. 55. cat am platit eu parcarea, radu l-a invatat sa spuna salut, scuze si multumesc. ii stric cheful si ii explic ca multumesc nu o sa reuseasca in veci sa spuna corect si mai bine nu se chinuie, ca o sa iasa ceva balmajit si noi toti o sa fim: quoi? il lamuresc ce e si cu confuzia cu turzi band vs turzi person. I´m not into music, I´m just the only guy which slept enough to be able to drive here.

ora 15.30 am facut conversatie, i-am aratat cladirile mai importante de pe calea victorie, da, toate cinci, i-am explicat care e treaba per ansamblu.

ora 15.45 cobor in piata natiunilor unite, intru pe strada aia care da la casa poporului pe partea cu parcul izvor. iau stanga teatral de volan la semaforul de jos din coltul parcului, afisand casa poporului in toata imensitatea ei, ma intorc cu o privire de alain delon catre nonturzi si ii spun: in this building you´re going to play tonight. wow efectul care urmeaza face toti banii.

ora 15.50. intram pe poarta de la mnac. ii spun cu o voce grava jandarmului de la poarta ca am venit cu un artist care trebuie sa faca un timecheck. imi dau seama abia mai tarziu ca de fapt tre sa faca un sound check, dar nici jandarmul respectiv nu stapanea complet jargonul muzical, asa ca suntem deja inauntru. il avertizez ca aici sunt niste reguli de securitate mai dure, dar nu e nici o problema, politia e ok, nu o sa avem probleme.

ora 15.55 facem controlul bagajelor la intrare. suntem opriti pentru ca nonturzi are un cutit in bagaje. il intreb. do you have a pocket knife in your bags? se uita lung la mine. no, I don´t have any knife. insist. try to remember, they said they saw it on screen. it is ok, you´ll just have to leave it here and you´ll pick it up when you go. se uita in continuare foarte lung. no, but i just came from de airport, they wouldn´t let me in the plane with a knife. are dreptate francezul, imi zic eu si ma intorc spre jandarmi. tocmai l-am luat pe om de la aeroport, nu are cum sa aiba cutit la el, ca l-ar fi oprit acolo. poate a avut bagajul la cala si nu a fost controlat, zice jandarmul. si tu ai dreptate, ma gandesc eu si ma intorc pierdut catre nonturzi. acuma, asta nu voia sa recunoasca nimica, aia doar nu era sa ne lase sa intram cu cutite la noi, ce era de facut. imi vine ideea brilianta sa intreb in ce geanta e cutitul, ca poate isi aminteste artistul, are o anamneza, un soc, o regasire, ceva. politistii imi arata geanta care era evident geanta de umar a aluia si fusese verificata la aeroport, eu imi exprim neincrederea, moment in care ei realizeaza ca, de fapt, nu era geanta aia, era ailalta. si imi arata incriminator geanta de umar a lui radu care se decide sa aiba si el o prima contributie la toata sceneta si, cu o fata foarte mirata, pare sa isi aminteasca cum ca el ar avea un swiss army knife in geanta. ma intorc zambaret tot catre francez si ii zic relaxat. sorry, it wasn´t you, it is my friend, he has a knife in his bag.

ora 16.00 suntem la etajul 1 unde trebuie sa-l lasam in grija unui om numit tapu. eu nu-l cunosc, dar dana mi-a trimis numarul lui, radu il cunoaste, dar nu are numarul lui. desi stam unul langa altul, ne ia vreo cinci minute sa deblocam situatia. intre timp, nonturzi l-a vazut pe adevaratul turzi si pe colegii lui si vrea sa se duca sa ii ajute cu nu stiu ce. dar, nu, in nici un caz, dupa atata chinuiala, nu o sa te las eu sa te pierzi prin casa poporului. no, I´m sorry, we have to stay here until we find tapu, I have strict orders to deliver you to this guy, I will not let you roam around while you are in my care. after tapu takes over responsability, you can do whatever you like. but they are my friends, my colleagues, I want to help them with the instruments, se roaga el cu o voce plangacioasa, dar n-are cu cine. iritat ca am intarziat la masa, sunt dur si categoric. they will manage by themselves. we have to wait for tapu. din fericire, asteptarea ia repede sfarsit si nu pentru ca ne-am lamurit noi cum sa reunim cele doua elemente, numarul de telefon din mobilul meu si cunoasterea persoanei din mintea lui radu, ci pentru ca apare tapu chiar langa noi. sau ma rog, cineva care a zis radu ca e tapu, ca in ziua de azi tind sa nu mai cred nimic.

seara tarziu. radu vine la mine si imi zice, dude, hai sa mergem in fata, canta turzi, hai sa il salutam pe mat si sa facem friendly faces from the public.

seara si mai tarziu. il gasesc pe mat fumand inghesuit pe scara si ii zic: I loved your music, I went to the girl who sent me for you and thank here that she sent me for you and not for that dan deacon guy and I just want to say that I think you, guys, put the rock back into the rokolectiv. imi zambeste foarte larg si imi zice: man, that was exactly our plan, I´m so happy that you got it, music is all about this, thank you, thank you.

mai mult verde, mai mult amor

Un studiu sponsorizat de producatorul american de echipament sportiv Timberland arata ca barbatii din SUA sunt mai atrasi de femeile eco-friendly, mai precis cele care recicleaza, sting luminile cand parasesc o incapere sau conduc masini cu un consum redus de combustibil.

26 April 2010

The internets will be pleased

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

north korean magic, He surely can do it

He then indicated ways of simultaneously pushing ahead with vast projects of city and rural construction to narrow the distinctions between towns and the countryside.

Thanks to his energetic guidance, great achievements have been made in the rural construction with farm villages turned into fairylands of the socialist country.

well, i bet she's emotionally unstable

Liv Boeree

25 April 2010

forget about nucular weapons, say hello to deadly accuracy

General Yuri Baluyevsky, a deputy secretary of the Russian National Security Council, complained that US concessions at nuclear arms reduction talks were not because of America’s love of peace, but because “they can kill you using conventional high-precision weapons”.

24 April 2010

the westethics of advertising

Britain's Advertising Standards Authority said the Western Wall in Jerusalem could not be used in Israeli tourism ads in Britain because it is considered occupied territory

23 April 2010

for to make this layout pretty

sa traiti rezonabili!

"Nu mă tem că v-aş putea deveni suspect dacă ridic următoare întrebare: rezonabilitatea e azi o formă de disidenţă? La ce? La cine?"

din excelenta serie a lui Radu Cosasu Note informative către Serviciile multilateral specializate

22 April 2010

dead pixels

"In a sense, the internet is already the celebration of banality, because everything from old masters to scratched out newspaper puzzles is reduced to the same deadening aesthetic of a group of pixels, bereft of texture, depth and light. The series ‘Beautifully Banal (via Kottke) would appear to bear this out; digital beauty is a modern construct we have all become easily tuned into, because it slips down nice and quickly, easy on the eye. The soft, smooth animation of the modern UI turns kinetic intervention with material into a heightened sensory experience: simply pushing a (real) photograph around a (real) desktop is not especially entertaining, so why is it that doing the same thing in the virtual realm should be so compelling? Not to mention distracting."

a downfall with style

Hitler, as "Downfall producer" orders a DMCA takedown from Brad Templeton on Vimeo.

space candy

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.

21 April 2010

chewbacca's brothers in full bloom


bigger than god

Presedintele Turkmenistanului, Gurbanguli Berdimuhamedov, a ordonat "sa fie rezolvata problema" Portii Infernului

recipe for disaster

An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cookbook after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.

one really good one liner

Many born-again Christians suffering birth defects.

„Armageddon“ are un sâmbure de adevăr, sau nu?

Nu este eficient să tratăm asteroizii ca în „Armageddon“, să încercăm să dăm o gaură în ei, neştiind ce compoziţie au. Devierea este cea mai eficientă metodă şi cu pericolele cele mai puţine. Deocamdată tehnologia nu există, sunt doar soluţii tehnice puse pe hârtie.E nevoie de un efort internaţional, trebuie mobilizate resurse ale mai multor state.

Dumitru Prunariu a remarcat o coincidenţă periculoasă legată de profeţia maya

like whoa

20 April 2010

in order to sleep really good

deadlier than a laser T Rex


yeah, that's Putin piloting this incredibly beautiful nuclear bomber

19 April 2010

we're not flying, we're digging tunnels through the atmosphere

[Image: Photo by AP Photo/Brynjar Gaudi].

If you had told me, though, that a new science fiction novel had just come out featuring a planet on which vast turbulent structures of glass fly through the global atmosphere, posing a dire threat to machinery and drifting across whole continents in a kind of low-intensity storm of aerosolized crystal, I would, naively, never have assumed that such a thing might also be possible here on earth. The speculative climatology of alien worlds.

But, perhaps, if airplane engines are built to fly through air—i.e. not through glass, dust, rocks, or geology—today's airplanes should be temporarily retrofitted with tunneling equipment under each wing, jury-rigged Herrenknecht machines to drill a new infrastructure of hovering tunnels through the glass-thundering skies of northern Europe.

[the bldgblog's completely original take on Iceland ash cloud]

eu cand vreau sa fiu prost

scriu articole

sexinapetența

18 April 2010

for all your basement needs

buldozer6

Police in Connecticut said an unmanned, runaway excavator demolished a shed, knocked over trees, flattened a pop-up camper and smashed into a house.

grounded!

17 April 2010

Another cute/intense creature bonding moment.

16 April 2010

& remember, keep your eyes empty!

lines on loss of the Titanic

Dim moon-eyed fishes near
Gaze at the gilded gear
And query: "What does this vaingloriousness down here?"

(The Convergence Of The Twain - george szirtes)

how to say someone sucks at style with style

We leave to monsieur Le Corbusier his style that suits factories as well as it does hospitals. And the prisons of the future: is he not already building churches? I do not know what this individual – ugly of countenance and hideous in his conceptions of the world – is pressing to make him want thus to crush humanity under ignoble heaps of reinforced concrete… his power of cretinization is vast.

clickable supports

15 April 2010

And very very frightening: electrical farming.

The latest results show that lightning-strength jolts of electricity can more than double the yield of certain mushroom species compared with conventional cultivation methods.

gramatyka destynuluii

sa_mi fut vyata cat adevar in piesa asta sun constyent ca am viitoru asigurat in tara asta adica(nimic) muncesc de la 18 ani pe un salariu de nimic(ca bani de facultate nevoie) din care mai platesc sh impozite sa fac parlamentari cu pula mare ....... tre exterminaty in special cocalaru de basescu sh_a facut manea la alegeri luas_i fatza aya stramba in pula .......... respect guess, raku,ombladon

glassnost

cut.paste.shoot.repeat.

long cat

eu cand vreau sa fur

Papan Chilibar, unul dintre actorii principali ai filmului "Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier", a ajuns din nou la Politie. El a fost retinut joi dimineata, impreuna cu patru tineri care spargeau apartamente in Bucuresti.

win something, lose something, lose everything

Familia castigatoare si-a omorat de bucurie porcul, si-a spart televizorul si a si oferit banii stransi de-a lungul timpului, unui vecin, pentru a afla la final ca nici macar nu este adevarata castigatoare ai premiului.

time to want

14 April 2010

that's the a-bomb of cuteness

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13 April 2010

face off

Women who use Botox are sending the wrong social signals because their frozen facial muscles make it difficult for them to express the normal range of emotions.

12 April 2010

getting high on your placenta supply

11 April 2010

amin

RICHARD DAWKINS, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”.

Richard Dawkins: I will arrest Pope Benedict XVI

planul religios de evacuare in caz de incendiu

Perhaps the most serious and widely criticized incident attributed to them occurred on March 11, 2002, when they prevented schoolgirls from escaping a burning school in Mecca, because the girls were not wearing headscarves and abayas (black robes), and not accompanied by a male guardian. Fifteen girls died and 50 were injured as a result.

10 April 2010

a few handsome men

09 April 2010

Life is a lemon and I want my penis back. Wait, what?

He was told to pay an £80 fixed penalty notice, or face prosecution for causing 'harassment, alarm and distress' - and was told he can only have his penis back if he promises not to put it on display again.

mai bine mai tarziu decat prea tarziu

Regizorul Sergiu Nicolaescu a admis într-un interviu acordat recent unui cotidian, că a vrut să se sinucidă de trei ori în adolescenţă.

DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT

mp3



[from Malice in Wonderland OST]

L'aureal



(via BotV)

metafora e atunci cand citesti si iti zambeste creierul

take one
We knew a guy who was a burning house fleeing a man. And another guy whose head was one of those take-apart plastic models of the female reproductive system. And we knew a guy who went hunting one day and accidentally ended up shooting his inner child. And we knew a guy who everybody called Edna, including his own mom. And another guy who wasn't a guy, but a five-decade fiasco. We see his face in the mirror sometimes, when we forget not to look.

take two
He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.

07 April 2010

cu exceptia riveranilor

...şi fiindcă din partea femeiască putea să aducă vreun scandal monahilor vieţuitori de acolo, de aceea sub grea legătură s-a oprit de la acest loc să mai treacă înainte, sub nici un chip, parte femeiască. Iar cele ce vor îndrăzni a trece să fie sub blestem şi toate nenorocirile să vie asupra lor, precum sărăcia, gârbăvia şi tot felul de pedepse, şi iarăşi, cele ce vor păzi această hotărâre să aibă blagoslovenia lui Dumnezeu şi a smereniei noastre şi să vină asupra lor fericitul bine..

strawberry clouds

The result? Ice cream, delivered soft, cold, and delicious, falling straight from the afternoon sky.

triunghiul lui venus sau un chatlog cu complicatii

elle trop belle :
cum ele, iubite fiind, erau ambele indragostite de mine
elle trop belle :
eu dorind-o doar pe una
elle trop belle :
in final
elle trop belle :
am decis toate 3
elle trop belle :
ca ne-o punem toate
iPing:
desigur, ce altceva?

drepti pentru reboot!

The Red Star operating system uses a popular North Korean folk song as its start-up music and numbers years using a calendar which starts counting from the birth of state founder Kim Il-sung, making 2010 the 99th year.

Details of a home-grown computer operating system developed by North Korea have emerged.

Doamne, butoneaza-i pe romani

Este ceva de vis!Butonati, hai romani butonati!!M-am invartit un pic printre oale ,la bucatarie,(cam o ora) si puf! Inca 200 au aparut!!Nu numai sa "TRAIASCA ROMANIA!"..ROMANIA TRAIESTE!!Doamne ,nu numai sa-i numeri,dar sa-i si binecuvantezi pe romani!!

05 April 2010

natural born singer

In 1987, when presenting Peter Gabriel with an award for his music videos, Anderson related an occasion in which a recording session had gone late into the night and Gabriel's voice had begun to sound somewhat strange, almost dreamlike. It was discovered that he had fallen asleep in front of the microphone, but had continued to sing.

Marian prietene, 3 milioane de 20 de milioane de oameni americani nu mai suporta ceata si trebuie sa facem un accident impreuna, vascular

"Fost Suferind De Depresie, Anxietate Si Atacuri De Panica Va Dezvaluie Un Remediu Natural Asociat Cu Un Program Revolutionar Pas-Cu-Pas, Care Va Alunga Depresia, Anxietatea Si Atacurile De Panica Odata Pentru Totdeauna Din Viata Dvs"

-- Fara Medicamente, Fara Potiuni, Fara Hipnoterapie Metoda 100% Garantata Si Complet Naturala --








Simtiti-va mai calm, mai fericit si mai sanatos, cu niveluri crescute de energie si incredere de sine.

Puteti invinge depresie, anxietate sau/si atacurile de panica fara medicamente – multi clienti raporteaza rezultate notabile in DOAR O Saptamana

Draga prietene,

Numele meu este Marian si in minutele urmatoare va voi arata de ce depresia, anxietatea sau atacurile de panica va fac sa va simtiti atat de rau. Apoi va voi impartasi tehnicile mele revolutionare care va vor ajuta sa scapati de ele natural, rapid si permanent.

Depresia, anxietatea sau atacurile de panica sunt afectiuni ale zilelor noastre, si daca suferiti din pricina lor, atunci stiu cum va simtiti, deoarece depresia si anxietatea mi-ai distrus viata timp de 5 ani.

De la a ma simti neajutorat, singur si izolat pana la epuizarea totala care face ca cele mai simple sarcini sa fie atat de grele; aceste probleme mi-au creat un adevarat cosmar.

Nu sunteti singur, peste 3 milioane de romani (20 de milioane de americani) indura povara depresiei, anxietatii sau a atacurilor de panica, in fiecare an.

La fel ca mine, stiti ca, cu cat cosmarul este mai lung, cu atat viata este mai grea. Este ca si cum ai fi prins intr-o nesfarsita ceata, in mijlocul unui dens camp. Nu conteaza cat de mult ai incerca, chiar nu se poate vedea o cale de iesire.

In cazul meu, in care am pierdut pe toata lumea care m-a iubit si tot ce-am lucrat din greu pentru a avea, am ajuns la punctul cel mai de jos. Am suportat destul si nu am mai putut suporta.

Iata Cum Dvs Va Puteti Obtine Viata Inapoi

Printr-un accident vascular cerebral am gasit drumul inapoi. Si va promit, indiferent de cum va simtiti acum si indiferent de cat timp ati suferit, va puteti obtine viata inapoi si va puteti bucura din nou. Mai mult, o puteti face fara a suferi de efectele secundare ale antidepresivelor si, o data ce ati invins depresia, anxietatea si atacurile de panica, ati invins pentru totdeauna!

Odata Ce Le-Ati Invins Veti:

02 April 2010

botswinners

Conform datelor Fondului Monetar Internaţional, fiecare botswanez produce anual 13.400 de dolari, cu 1700 de dolari mai mult decât fiecare român.

large mental condition collides with bad fashion

A would-be saboteur arrested todaytomorrow at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.

paste fericit, team clickable!


un martisor muzical de la colega voastra care va iubeste pe toti fara de exceptie dar in feluri diferite

muzica grea

Modeselektor-TheBlackBlock(ByetoneRemix)

01 April 2010

educatie maxim de alternativa. maxim am spus

Once a week, 4-, 5- and 6-year-olds mix together at imagination stations grouped around subjects like language arts, music and movement. On a recent morning, one group was stationed in the hallway singing “Frère Jacques” in Mandarin; in a classroom, another group was imitating the sound of rain on a giant drum (it was pouring outside). When the children got overly excited by their Blue Man Group-style drumming, they calmed down with breathing exercises.

we own (from) the sky

One of those things only an U2 plane could do, improbably enough, is that even from 13 miles up its sensors can detect small disturbances in the dirt, providing a new way to find makeshift mines that kill many soldiers.

All I've got in my defence is my innocence, I've been magnetized

A Magnetic Field Applied to the Brain Can Alter People's Sense of Morality