The Benefits of a Long Childhood
11th April 2008
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Filtering Communications So They Don’t Drive Us Mad
11th April 2008
Jeremy Wagstaff is always worth reading.
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Exercise Delays Old Age Fatigue
11th April 2008
Too late.
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Nanomaterials Repair Spinal Cords In Mice
11th April 2008
Some good news for a change.
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‘Breakthrough’ at Stonehenge dig
10th April 2008
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Big Apple Safe Enough For Upper Class White Baby Boom
9th April 2008
And about time, too.
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Obama Visits Billionaires Row
9th April 2008
Wonder if anybody mistook him for one of the grounds staff.
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EMT Paintball Sentry Turret renders your personal militia useless
9th April 2008
Me want. Plus a supply of appropriately-sized fragmentation grenades.
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LED Dog Tail Communicator gives Fido a voice
9th April 2008
Perhaps it could be rigged to give doggy advice, like the famous “Magic 8-ball”.
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First Single Strand DNA Sequencing Demonstrated
9th April 2008
We have the technology.
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Death of the Semi-Colon?
7th April 2008
Leftoid rags are so much more worth reading when they stay away from politics.
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Did Obama Hide His Father’s Communist Ideology?
7th April 2008
Was he even aware of his fathers Communist ideology? He seems unaware of so much else.
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Researchers crafting hybrid material to hasten computing processes
7th April 2008
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‘Ruthlessness gene’ discovered
7th April 2008
Great news if true. If it can be detected, it can be screened for — and perhaps treated.
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From the World of Modern Cell Science, A Long and Sorted Coming-of-Age Story
7th April 2008
Learning to tell things apart and sort them into different piles is a key cognitive milestone of early childhood. It’s probably not a surprise that the skill comes in handy all through life and in all manner of activities.
Now, if we could just get people to PUT THE PILES AWAY, everything would be perfect.
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Rush To Build Private Spaceships
6th April 2008
Be the first on you block….
The nice thing about silly people having silly amounts of disposable income is that sometimes they use it to buy toys that, by the way, advance the cause of civilization. Not necessarily a bad thing.
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In India, Dreams Unfold in English
6th April 2008
When you consider that English is about the only language all Indians have in common, this makes perfect sense. Between the fall of Rome and the early modern period, for example, it was impossible to be a successful academic in Europe without knowing Latin.
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Beer Bottle Brick
5th April 2008
How very useful.
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Why Do So Many People Freak Out When They See ‘Free’ As Part Of A Business Model?
5th April 2008
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Windows 7 to arrive next year, says Bill Gates
4th April 2008
Vista must REALLY suck. Perhaps it will recede into history as the ‘Windows Me II’ it rightly is.
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Movie Director Flattered That Someone Camcorded And Uploaded His Movie
4th April 2008
At last, someone with a clue.
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Pure comedy gold laying untouched on the sidewalk.
4th April 2008
Steve Sailer always seems to find the good stuff.
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Where U.S.-Mexico border fence is tall, border crossings fall
3rd April 2008
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What Happens After a Lawmaker Goes to That Great Lectern Beyond
3rd April 2008
Aside from ‘taxpayers breathe a sigh of relief’.
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No Health Benefit Seen From Extra Water Consumption
3rd April 2008
Another one bites the dust.
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Google brings offline access to Docs and Apps
1st April 2008
Another nail in the coffin of Microsoft Office.
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Rule
1st April 2008
Leo does trees. Makes you wonder where he found the time.
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Doctor Claims That Sending Too Many Text Messages Is A Sign Of Mental Problems
31st March 2008
Can’t say that I disagree. But that’s me.
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Political Ads as You’ve Never Seen Them
30th March 2008
Perhaps a new rest stop on the Information Superhighway.
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Another ‘Free’ Business Model Experiment
29th March 2008
How do you make money from giving stuff away? Read it and find out.
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The Sunday Stalin
29th March 2008
More illustrations of the fact that fascists and communists differ only in the color of their flags — and sometimes not even then.
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Schizophrenia Linked to Rare, Often Unique Genetic Glitches
28th March 2008
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Army tests of Land Warrior high-tech uniform successful, soldiers request more
28th March 2008
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Virginia Tech students create “smart” brake lights for cars
27th March 2008
How long before the government mandates these for cars?
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Affirmative Action Foes Push Ballot Initiatives
26th March 2008
Of course, they can’t get it past the courts and the regressive foot-draggers in government, but at least it’s on the books.
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Stuff White People Like #92 Book Deals
26th March 2008
Our research has slowed in recent weeks as we worked out the details, but Stuff White People Like are proud to announce that our textbook on white people is becoming a reality.
A must-read. Be the first on your block to find out everything you always wanted to know about White People, but were too busy Having A Life to ask.
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Nihon Uni shirts resist stabbing, make you feel like a superhero
25th March 2008
Chain mail has the same benefits and makes you feel a lot more butch.
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Don’t Elevate Me, Please!
25th March 2008
Mickey Kaus gets in touch with his inner Derbyshire:
Alter has presented the most compelling case for Al Gore I’ve read.
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Building Stonehenge
24th March 2008
This is fascinating.
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Cybernet’s all-in-one keyboard computers get an upgrade
24th March 2008
A very clever idea.
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An ‘Astounding Time’ for Planetary Discoveries
24th March 2008
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‘Staycation’ trend has travelers going nowhere fast
23rd March 2008
I’m down wit dat.
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Promoting irresponsibility
22nd March 2008
Successful attempts to shift the responsibility for bad decisions toward others and to society more generally create a “moral hazard” in behavior. If individuals are not held accountable for decisions and actions that harm themselves or others, they have less incentive to act responsibly in the first place since they will escape some or all of the bad consequences of their actions.
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story category Exposing Verizon’s FiOS Fine Print Trickery
22nd March 2008
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Sony hates you, offers $50 “Fresh Start” option to build your laptop crapware-free
21st March 2008
Hey, somebody has to replace what they’re paid to put that junk on your box in the first place.
It’s like a classic Marx brothers routine: “How much do you charge for not practicing?” “You couldn’t afford it.”
Avoid Sony. You Have Been Warned.
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InnovaTek’s hand-sized microreactor converts liquid fuel into hydrogen
20th March 2008
The question remains as to whether it’s more efficient than just using the liquid fuel in the first place.
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Why have burglaries declined?
20th March 2008
Because of slave labor in China, apparently.
Wonder whether this would work with illegal immigrants from south of the border. Hm.
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Scientists concoct material that superconducts at room temperature
20th March 2008
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Match Day: Med School Students About to Learn Their Fates
19th March 2008
I hadn’t realized that being a new doctor was so much like being a college football player.
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