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Dreamworld — Long-Term Monogamous Relationship

Our world is a bit of a dream­world. We know this from fol­low­ing news and some very nice peo­ple on Twit­ter, most notably Dr. Petra Boyn­ton. Because we have been together for almost forty years, we have been most thank­fully … Con­tinue read­ing

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Birthdays, Special Days, EveryDays, Just Days

Just a few days ago I passed the anniver­sary of my birth. It was one of those anniver­saries that many peo­ple think is a big deal. You know, one of the decades, one of those with a zero on the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sex, Procreation, Recreation, Bonding

The Advi­sory Com­mit­tee for Repro­duc­tive Health Drugs of the U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion voted unan­i­mously recently to rec­om­mend approval of an emer­gency con­tra­cep­tive for use up to five days after sex. Accord­ing to CNN: The pill is intended for women who … Con­tinue read­ing

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What Is a Normal Human?

Some­times you learn some­thing new that is really sur­pris­ing. Often it is some­thing that the gen­eral pub­lic is not exposed to sim­ply because gen­eral pub­lic sen­si­tiv­i­ties try to hide facts that we should prob­a­bly be more aware of than me … Con­tinue read­ing

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About Your Age

Still Here Too recently cel­e­brated a birth­day. It was some­thing of a mile­stone. Is Still Here will shortly cel­e­brate the same num­ber of annual pass­ings. You see he mar­ried an older woman. There are two ways to look at your age. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Hope I Don’t Die Before I Get Old

And I bet Mr. Town­shend doesn’t either. In a very inter­est­ing com­men­tary in New Sci­en­tist, Fred Pearce dis­cusses the gen­eral aging of the world’s pop­u­la­tion. Accord­ing to Mr. Pearce, in 19 coun­tries, the aver­age life expectancy is now 80 years. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Second-Hand Smoke

Night­shade, solanum, nico­tiana tabacum, sounds a lit­tle omi­nous. Cig­a­rettes, cig­ars, pipes now it doesn’t really sound as omi­nous, does it. But if you look into what is in the smoke that is pro­duced when the leaves of nico­tiana tabacum are … Con­tinue read­ing

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Racial, National Bias

Was raised sev­eral hours east of the Prime Merid­ian and well south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Would have been born there but Mom and Dad were away from what was then the fam­ily home­stead for edu­ca­tion rea­sons. So was actu­ally … Con­tinue read­ing

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