Killer ratings

In Brazil politicians can literally get away with murder!

Wallace Souza, a popular Amazonian MP who moonlights as a TV presenter(or maybe the other way round),has been accused of orchestrating a series of murders in Brazil to boost ratings for his tv show.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/12/brazilian-tv-host-accused-of-crime

Humans built with awareness of pentatonic scale?

Just to prove that I do have hobbies outside of ranting about the government, though that in itself provides plently of material, I am including a link to an experiment conducted by Bobby McFerrin. The following video suggests that fundementally humans are hard wired to recognise certain musical patterns?! I am not a musician but its quite interesting to see an audience, an unrelated mass, being unified almost magically.