Ceramic microneedles to make injections painless
13th January 2008
Read it. A neat trick — if it works.
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13th January 2008
Read it. A neat trick — if it works.
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13th January 2008
Steve Sailer is always worth reading.
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13th January 2008
Read it. My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
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13th January 2008
Read it. It marches hand in hand with the decline of civilization.
Everyone who uses “data” with a singular verb ought to be taken out into the courtyard and shot.
And it’s coming. It’s coming.
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13th January 2008
Read it. Just another example of liberal fascism.
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13th January 2008
Read it. Apparently Hitchens has stopped smoking. You can believe as much or as little of that as you care to.
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12th January 2008
Read it. An intriguing idea.
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12th January 2008
Read it. My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
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12th January 2008
Read it. Singapore doesn’t get near the respect it deserves for its achievements in practical economics.
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12th January 2008
Have you wondered how corporate scandals can go on for so long?:
Philip Soergel, a parent who complained to Howard schools administrators about the principal’s offer, said: “We were aghast. I had never heard of this. Kids are getting these kinds of lessons in how to tattle on one another.”
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12th January 2008
Read it. Go, Fred.
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12th January 2008
Read it. A view from abroad.
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12th January 2008
Read it. Judges upholding the law. When was the last time that happened?
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12th January 2008
Read it. The people can leave, you see, no problem, but God forbid they should take their church property with them.
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11th January 2008
Read it. What I’d like to see is an editorial by somebody who doesn’t favor people living cheek-by-jowl in crowded inner city tenements, which is the alternative to “sprawl”. Why is it that Regressives want to turn back the clock to where people had no individual transportation freedom? Is individual freedom such a threat?
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11th January 2008
Read it. An important point that bears repeating. Far too many people thing that “innovation” and “invention” are synonyms.
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11th January 2008
Read it. Whoa … Reuters may have a sense of shame after all. But probably not.
Notice how they published one of the more unhinged of the mail they undoubtedly got on the subject, just to point out that they were being magnanimous toward the Unwashed.
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11th January 2008
Read it. Is it just me, or does Giuliani not look like the ideal Lex Luthor?
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11th January 2008
Read it. “We live right now in a culture of unprecedented, voluptuous wealth.” Well, some of us do. And some of us like to pretend that we do for the sake of magazine articles.
The British upper class had to deal with this problem for hundreds of years. Surely they would be the first resort fo data on what works and what doesn’t. But I guess the American overclass is just too narcissistic.
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11th January 2008
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11th January 2008
Peggy Noonan takes a look at Hillary and Barak.
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11th January 2008
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11th January 2008
Read it. I guess Federal employment goes to the lowest bidder, too.
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10th January 2008
Steve Sailer is always coming up with interesting stuff.
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10th January 2008
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10th January 2008
Read it. If I ever wind up in a wheelchair, this is the wheelchair I want to wind up in.
I still say it needs a 50-cal mount. (Or a Phalanx! Yeah, that’s the ticket.)
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10th January 2008
Pogue has the inside skinny.
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10th January 2008
Read it. Well, sometimes Australians aren’t all that lovable.
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10th January 2008
Read it. As do I.
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10th January 2008
Read it. Take whatever action you think is appropriate.
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10th January 2008
Read it. Why not? It apparently causes everything else wrong with the world.
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10th January 2008
Read it. The Washington Post, of course, never saw a totalitarian intrusion into personal liberty that it didn’t like.
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10th January 2008
Read it. No kidding — there are pictures.
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10th January 2008
Read it. And it truly is.
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10th January 2008
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10th January 2008
Read it. When you care enough to send the very best.
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9th January 2008
Read it. What’s interesting is that the motion detector is actually in the bulb.
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9th January 2008
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9th January 2008
Read it. Pawlenty is being talked about as a possible Republican VP candidate. I think he’s more useful where he is.
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9th January 2008
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9th January 2008
Read it. My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
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9th January 2008
Read it. Pretty clever.
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9th January 2008
Read it. This one’s for you, Roy.
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9th January 2008
Read it. Perhaps the Law of Unintended Consequences actually works in our favor sometimes.
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9th January 2008
Read it. This is actually a very clever concept.
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9th January 2008
Read it. It’s like watching a snowman melt in the sun.
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9th January 2008
Read it. I’m certainly ready to do my part.
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9th January 2008
Read it.
Under these kinds of conditions, a cow (or a goat or pig) is a much better medium for saving. It is sturdier than paper money. Friends and relatives can’t ask for small pieces of it. If you own a cow, it yields milk, it can plow the fields, it produces dung that can be used as fuel or fertilizer, and in a pinch it can be slaughtered and turned into saleable meat or simply eaten. With a small loan, people in rural areas can buy that cow and use cash that might otherwise be diverted to less useful purposes to pay back the microcredit institution. So even when microcredit looks like indebtedness, savings are going up rather than down.
Then go here and lend a hand.
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9th January 2008
Read it. And go punch a sociologist. You know you want to.
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9th January 2008
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