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Elder Sex, Not Gross, Its Life

I ran across a very enlight­ened col­umn enti­tled “Age Is No Bar­rier to Great Sex” by Elaine George on The Daily Tele­graph Web­site. Ms. George says: “SEX is not just about pro­cre­ation, it is also for recre­ation — and this … Con­tinue read­ing

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Death of Discussion

Usenet and all of its suc­ces­sors are dying. No mat­ter what they call it in the movies, it is really anti-social net­work­ing. Social net­works are sup­posed to make it pos­si­ble to con­nect peo­ple who share inter­ests and activ­i­ties across polit­i­cal, … Con­tinue read­ing

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We Know So Little — Yet Won’t Fund Science

After the Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon plat­form dis­as­ter, approx­i­mately 275 mil­lion gal­lons of oil were released into the Gulf waters. Only 25% of the oil has been recov­ered, destroyed, or is known to have washed ashore. There is quite a con­tro­versy brew­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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Scientific Fraud — Ammunition for Those Who Choose To Live in Denial

Between bad sci­ence, spe­cial inter­ests, bad jour­nal­ism, and a pub­lic that is often too accept­ing of what is pub­lished as fact with­out check­ing sources; many ideas become accepted as truths when in fact they are noth­ing more than, at best, … Con­tinue read­ing

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Censorship and Social Media

Any­one from the US who goes to Europe is prob­a­bly shocked by tele­vi­sion. Between the effects of Hayes Com­mit­tee and the FCC, movies and tele­vi­sion in the US are heav­ily cen­sored. Some­times it is hard to under­stand the logic; bod­ies … Con­tinue read­ing

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A Scientist Learns to Relax

There was an old sci­en­tist who lived in a zoo. He worked with so many engi­neers, he didn’t know what to do; He gave them all advice with­out any dread; But they drove him all crazy and out of his head. … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Great BP Bash — Rather Worry the Fix

Does the mas­sive oil spill now occur­ring in the Gulf of Mex­ico bother us? Absolutely. Would we like to see thor­ough reviews of what went wrong and what can be done to sig­nif­i­cantly improve pre­ven­tion of such inci­dents in the future? … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sexual Preference and the U.S. Supreme Court

Solic­i­tor Gen­eral of the United States Elena Kagan, who should be news­wor­thy only because she is cur­rently nom­i­nated to the U.S. Supreme Court, has been deemed news­wor­thy by The Wall Street Jour­nal for play­ing soft­ball in 1993 (Thanks to my … Con­tinue read­ing

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