I can tell exactly when the author visited Seattle because there was a two month long period where jaywalkers on one downtown street were fined. It was in preparation of a big bus transit overhaul and because traffic got really really crazy, it probably did save a couple of lives.

I'm happy to report that you can jaywalk with impunity now, but even if you're in the crosswalk and you have the light with you, you will still get mowed down by idiots driving while talking on their cell phones.

Really, some times of the day, you're better off jaywalking.

How many buzzwords CAN they cram into seven minutes of video? And why does it sound suspicious like corporate jargon?

You have to love and appreciate history for the Underground Tour to appeal to you. It's better for people who are into urban exploration than people who like sight seeing tours.

If you go expecting to see some a picturesque window into pre-fire Seattle, you will be sorely disappointed.

Perhaps more exciting still are the miles and miles and miles of The Underground that the tour doesn't cover. Anywhere you see the glass block "skylights" embedded in the cement in the above ground sidewalks, that's where the the underground city is. It sprawls.

Unfortunately, Seattle keeps a tight grip on it. Go looking for an entrance into the rest of that underground city and you won't get very far.

I'll add that the truly generous participants would have treated their team mates to dinner. Better yet, give meal vouchers to the homeless.

Only a show-off would pretend to martyr himself "for the good of the group".

And yes, show-offs do get voted off the island first.

I call bunk on this study. If you look at the way the study was set up, you had normal people trading points for meal vouchers, but the "generous" people were trading in those vouchers for a CHANCE to win a cash prize to be shared among the team.

Guaranteed lunch, versus not-guaranteed money.

Opting for the cash prize was painted as "generous" but I suspect that many of the participants wouldn't have agreed. They probably resented being told that they were being selfish by keeping their meal vouchers.

To up the ante, if the team were in a survival situation, the guy who wasted his food would be a burden to the group-- not a hero.

Bad Science makes Beryllium angry. >:[

I cannot repeat the names I want to call this woman in a family blog.

Oh God... I think I'm going to be sick after watching that. There are just some things that spines shouldn't be asked to do!