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You know what they say about men with big index fingers.

Big gloves. Oh, and big dicks.

According to Greek scientists, the length of a man's index finger can accurately predict the length of his penis.

My new million-dollar idea: lifelike index-finger-enlarging prostheses.

Man, the rationalizing animal:

What Libet did was to measure electrical changes in people's brains as they flicked their wrists. And what he found was that a subject's ''readiness potential'' — the brain signal that precedes voluntary actions — showed up about one-third of a second before the subject felt the conscious urge to act.

[...] Then the experimenters would use magnetic stimulation in certain parts of the brain just at the moment when the subject was prompted to make the choice. They found that the magnets, which influence electrical activity in the brain, had an enormous effect: On average, subjects whose brains were stimulated on their right-hand side started choosing their left hands 80 percent of the time.

And, in the spookiest aspect of the experiment, the subjects still felt as if they were choosing freely.

''What is clear is that our brain has the interpretive capacity to call free will things that weren't,'' he said.

No surprise to memeticists.

(Respectively via /., MeFi, the null device)