The Incredible Make-Out Experiment

This video is definitely going to stir something inside you. I found myself physically squirming. And smiling. And curious. And nervous.

And that was just me being an observer. I can only fathom what I would've felt as a participant.

20 complete strangers were asked to kiss each other for the first time.

It was awkward.
It was weird.

It was..
In it's own way..

Lovely.

I wonder how the "kissers" of this experiment felt afterward? I wonder if it would have been easier for them if their participation hadn't been filmed?

Did they have sweaty palms beforehand? Memories of high school? What was going on in their lives that even attracted this experience?

Did they keep in touch?

Take a look and see what gets activated inside you.

If you feel nothing, you're a liar. :)

Different and strange, no?

I wouldn't advise kissing, but go out and be nice to stranger today. Smile at the unsuspecting. Be kind to that annoying as hell person complaining about the length of the breakfast line. Give that beggar the few pennies that he/she asks for.

Even if you think they're gonna use it on drugs.

It's Wednesday, a great day to make a positive difference in someone's life.

Muah!

-WTS.


Who Did It

900 Years Later.. a Kiss

900-Year-Old Coded Viking Message Carved on Wood Fragment Finally Solved..   It Says “Kiss Me”


At the end of the day. Or decade. Or century. A kiss can last lifetimes.. -WTS

Photo by Jonas Nordby via forskning.no

For the past several years researchers have been trying to crack a Viking rune alphabet known as Jötunvillur, a perplexing code dating back to the 11th or 12th century that’s been found in some 80 inscriptions including the scratched piece of wood found above. Recently runologist (!) Jonas Nordby from the University of Oslo managed to crack the code and discovered the secret message etched into this particular 900-year-old object reads “Kiss me.” Via Medievalists.net:

For the jötunvillur code, one would replace the original runic character with the last sound of the rune name. For example, the rune for ‘f’, pronounced fe, would be turned into an ‘e’, while the rune for ‘k’, pronounced kaun, became ‘n’.

“It’s like solving a puzzle,” said Nordby to the Norwegian website forskning.no. “Gradually I began to see a pattern in what was apparently meaningless combinations of runes.”

However, those thinking that the coded runes will reveal deep secrets of the Norse will be disappointed. The messages found so far seem to be either used in learning or have a playful tone. In one case the message was ‘Kiss me’. Nordby explains “We have little reason to believe that rune codes should hide sensitive messages, people often wrote short everyday messages.”

The act of coding secret messages appears to have been a leisure activity amongst the Vikings, as some of the other translated inscriptions turned out to be playful taunts at the person doing the decoding. The story was originally reported on forskning.no. (via Erik Kwakkel, Neatorama)


For further information you can see more the article in an English version on ScienceNordic.

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