Sizing things up: The evolutionary neurobiology of scale invariance
Brain-to-brain interface allows transmission of tactile and motor information between rats [technological telepathy, GO!]
Tumors deliberately create conditions that inhibit body's best immune response
Scientists pinpoint how deep brain stimulation eases OCD [of interest to anyone on the f-list?]
Ability of brain to protect itself from damage revealed
Novel combination therapy shuts down escape route, killing glioblastoma tumor cells
'Defective' virus surprisingly plays major role in spread of [viral] disease[s] [virus symbiosis...]
Songbirds' brains coordinate singing with intricate timing, study reports

I recommend reading some of these articles - they're all short, and written to be easy to understand for the non-technical reader. (Such as myself... >_>) And this time, the results are pretty cool. So check them out if you have a free moment!

...What, precisely, is your definition of a "month"?

Here you go. (Assuming my code is sound, that is. And I very much hope it is, because if it isn't, then I need to go headdesk a few times...)

I would advise only typing in numbers under 100,000, as it starts to lag around there. And I don't want to blow up your browser. >_> And, er, it should go without saying that you'd have to do a lot of scrolling if you put in a number that large and didn't specify that you only wanted to see so many primes less than that number...

...I should note that I really, really DO recommend Codecademy with the fervor of any new convert. With all due respect to all the other fun activities on the web, it's the only recent one that I can remember that made me actually learn something. XD And it's fun! Really!

Notes:
Contrary to what you might think...
At least at first (i.e. with the HTML/CSS and early JavaScript portions)...
1) It requires absolutely no mathematical or logistical abilities.
2) It requires nothing more than a working keyboard and internet connection.
3) If there are any problems, the Hint will usually tell you what you should be doing.
4) You can probably finish a few exercises in about the same amount of time it takes to mass-click 300 Pokemon in the Berry Feeder on GPXPlus while mashing the 1,2,3,4,5 keys at full speed.
4a) The amount of time it takes to finish a full section feels like about the same amount of time it will take to mass-click those Pokemon.
Also...
5) To be really cynical? ...It's set up in the rapid action-reward system that hypnotizes people with ADHD-like traits. >_> Put music on, sit down in a comfortable chair, and drift happily through the lessons. Heck, open up tabs and jump between track courses and non-track courses - it isn't going to stop you. Just make sure said courses are all in the same programming language so that you don't end up bewildered by syntax errors. :P

(Remember, you can always go to Codecademy Labs to run code of your own for Python, Ruby, and JavaScript. No on-computer compiler needed!)

[...Also, the "high" mood refers to the feeling of doing courses, NOT ingesting any controlled substances. I was off of caffeine again as of Friday. :P ]

Meanwhile, the others apparently have different aging rates. *shrug*

""Anyway, his ardeur power causes people to love him."
Can someone PLEASE notify vampire authors that "being lovable" is possibly the WORST vampire power EVER? "

...Well, no, actually, "being lovable" is one of the most POWERFUL vampire powers EVER. Particularly if the vampire has absolutely no scruples or conscience about using it.

If it makes people genuinely fall head over heels for the vampire, said vampire can start its very own cult - amongst other things. EVERYTHING in a personality cult is geared towards making the people feel love (and fear) for the Dear Leader. If the vampire just has to wave its power around? Ba-bing, no propaganda needed - just 'force of personality'.

If the vampire uses it on unstable and/or weak-willed people? Then the vampire has a force of genuine yanderes at its disposal. Even better. Now it can run terrorism against anyone who opposes it through the "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?!" method, and just claim that its more 'fanatical' followers did it without its approval. It's always worked for monarchs who had only mundane bonds of fealty on their side. It would sure as blazes work for a vampire with supernatural love-compulsions working on its victims' minds.

For ****'s sake, please explain to me why being a walking love-potion-dispenser wouldn't be one of the most terrifying powers a psychopathic manipulator could have. Because, as it is, I'm just thinking rather snide things about Darker And Edgier fetishization of vampires causing people to miss the ragingly obvious.

Surely you must be joking?!
AGAIN?
...We thought... you had abandoned this spork...
No such luck, guys. |D

Disclaimer: Nergal (both versions) and Ninis belong to Nintendo and Intelligent Systems. The fic belongs to Athea. Harry Potter belongs to J.K. Rowling. Only the spork (and the other sporkers that drop in occasonally) belongs to me.

ONE FOR THE MONEY!
TWO FOR THE SHOW!
THREE TO GET READY!
AND HERE! WE! GO!
( Did you think this spork was gone for good? :D )

 

Why was the Rose Potter page on TV Tropes deleted?

*shakes head* I also don't know why I was so obsessed with providing detailed descriptions of the sporkers in my old "my sporkers" entries. Sporker descriptions =/= RP profiles, jeez.

(I might write longer descriptions for the sporkers later, but in individual entries.)