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Insincerity is a symptom that lets you hide the disease. It’s like a girdle: it’s a good sign you’ve gone off your diet, but it’s also a means to hide that fact. Eventually the real problem—that you’re washing cheeseburgers down with super-sized Cokes—is going to overtake your ability to hide it. In the end all […]

a new, and very well-written thus far, blog: Finally, it hit me. Specifically, a 1990 Buick Century. I was thrown onto the hood, hit the windshield, bounced off the asphalt, and ended up on my back in the middle of the street. In the end, I walked away with little more than some light internal […]

Humans have a characteristic diploid chromosome number of 2N=46 whereas the other Great Apes (orangutans, gorillas, and chimps) are all 2N=48. The large metacentric Chromosome 2 of Homo appears to be the result of a fusion between two smaller telocentric chromosomes found in the other Great Apes. In the figure above, Q-banding patterns in the […]

Dr. Bostrom doesn’t pretend to know which of these hypotheses is more likely, but he thinks none of them can be ruled out. “My gut feeling, and it’s nothing more than that,” he says, “is that there’s a 20 percent chance we’re living in a computer simulation.” Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch – […]

Girl overdoses on espresso coffeeJasmine was taken to hospital (picture Northern Echo)A teenager was taken to hospital after overdosing on espresso coffee.Jasmine Willis, 17, developed a fever and began hyperventilating after drinking seven double espressos while working at her family’s sandwich shop. seven double espressos. by my estimation that is nearly 1 400 milligrams of […]

humble_servant asks: Is the bread and wine/juice that we take for communion only a symbol, or does it actually become the body and blood of Jesus? Please give reasons why. i never understood how it could possibly be “literal” the body and blood of jesus died, and according to the gospels, rose from the dead […]

Anyhoo. Here’s what we did. We started out with lunch, which was Kobe pears that I have specially flown in from Japan on the Jobs Jet. These pears are in season right now and you have to eat them within twenty-four hours after they’re picked or you miss most of the experience. I also flew […]

climate change doubters are stupid: August 8, 2007—Floods threaten a resident of Wuhan, China on August 4. Disasters brought on by severe rains have killed at least 652 Chinese so far in 2007. The violent weather is among a slew of record-breaking climate events that have pounded the world in the first months of 2007, […]

Douglas Adams Links: Last Chance To See – Official Last Chance To See – BBC Last Chance To See – H2G2 Douglas Adams .com Douglas Adams Continuum Douglas Adams Portal HHGTTGOnline.com ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha HitchhikersMovie Official US Site HitchhikersMovie Official UK Site Douglas Adams Tribute Page Originally published at anotherchancetosee.com Technorati Tags: animal, anotherchancetosee, […]

Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Bird Flight Speed: It’s Magic! Deltoid: Joining the dots on an anti-Gore story slacktivist: God gap (cont’d.) Experiencing ADDvantages: Top 5 ADD Books Brain Studies Show ADHD Is Real Disease – Forbes.com Skull-A-Day: 43. Chalk Skulls Christian Domestic Discipline Store : Home AP: New Details on Tillman’s Death – […]

last night i rode to broadripple and back, roughly a nine-mile ride. this is the second week in a row that i have done this one night during the week, and it wouldn’t be bad except that it was near 100° f last night. i was a sweaty sweaty chris, but boy do i feel […]

Meanwhile, MacUser has painstakingly compiled an exhaustive list of questions that we believe to be superior to Keefe’s, such as: “What is your favorite color?”; “How was breakfast?”; and “Why doesn’t the new iMac doesn’t come in Blue Dalmatian?” MacUser: World exclusive!!! Bob Keefe is not Fake Steve Jobs. But he is the “Intel Sticker […]

thank allah that football starts tonight.

I hyperfocus on the things that interest me, but can’t stay on task with things that don’t, I have trouble staying at jobs because I’m impulsive, unorganized, and restless. If I get bored, I quit. I’ve changed my major in college five times now and now am one class away from getting into the Nursing […]