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She’s Got It, Yeah Baby She’s Got It!

Floyd — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:20:22 +0000

A Russian scientist claims there may be life on Venus.

http://yhoo.it/w7Wtf1

Apparently no vodka was consumed during this mission.

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What A Pane!

Floyd — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:50:31 +0000

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The Vagina Dialogues

Floyd — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:21:49 +0000

There’s an old saying — I’m not sure if it’s pure Texan or not — that someone who was extremely happy was as “happy as a puppy with two peters.” I’m not sure if Hazel Jones is happy, but she seems to be. From ABC News:

When British television aired a story about a woman [...]

A War on Baby Girls?

Floyd — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:38:54 +0000

Here’s a sobering look, from the American Enterprise Institute’s Nicholas Eberstadt in The New Atlantis, at the rise of “selective abortion” around the world and sex-ratio at birth (SRB) stats and the demographic and social implications of the looming lack of girls and women:

Over the past three decades the world has come to witness [...]

Pack Your Bags We Leave Tonight

Floyd — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:09:28 +0000

Once upon a time man dreamed of interstellar travel. Then he dreamed of circling the Earth for a week or two while talking to Katie Couric. Now he wonders if he’ll ever get back up there. Well, physicist Paul Davies dreams of putting people on Mars — permanently. From Wired:

Eminent physicist Paul Davies [...]

Do the Dew

Rufus — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:45:00 +0000

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Bucking the Cult of the Expert

Floyd — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:17:01 +0000

Here’s an interesting piece from New Scientist on “outsider physicists” and other amateur, non-credentialed scientists.

IN OCTOBER 1991, astrophysicists observed something incredible in the skies above Dugway Proving Ground, a former weapons-testing facility in a remote corner of Utah. It was a cosmic ray with an enormous amount of energy – equivalent to the kinetic [...]

It Is Appointed Unto Man Once to Die… and This Ain’t Your Day.

Floyd — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:34:28 +0000

Merry Christmas Sam and the Schmid family!

Sam Schmid, an Arizona college student believed to be brain dead and poised to be an organ donor, miraculously recovered just hours before doctors were considering taking him off life support.

Schmid, a junior and business major at the University of Arizona, was critically wounded in [...]

What Child Is This?

Floyd — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:34:39 +0000

From Brazil comes this scientific wonder, a miracle — and a moral and ethical conundrum:

A Brazilian woman has given birth to a two-headed baby boy and doctors say the newborn appears to be in good health. Maria de Nazare has decided to name the pair, who share a heart, lungs, liver and [...]

Vegetarianism… It’s Bad For Animals!

Floyd — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:56:46 +0000

From Australia… the “ethical” case for eating meat from a journal called The Conversation:

Most cattle slaughtered in Australia feed solely on pasture. This is usually rangelands, which constitute about 70% of the continent.

Grazing occurs on primarily native ecosystems. These have and maintain far higher levels of native biodiversity than croplands. The rangelands [...]