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Screw that, it’s been tried already, that’s what the “brights” movement was about. It (mostly) failed because of attitudes like mine. I’m not a bright, I’m an atheist, damn it. I’m proud to be an atheist, I’m proud that I’ve been able to resist the natural human tendency of leaning on supernatural explanations where the […]

British forces have denied rumours that they released a plague of ferocious badgers into the Iraqi city of Basra.Word spread among the populace that UK troops had introduced strange man-eating, bear-like beasts into the area to sow panic. BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | British blamed for Basra badgers Technorati Tags: badger, badgerbadger, […]

A Russian hunter traipsing through Russia’s remote Arctic Yamalo-Nenetsk region in May noticed what he thought was a reindeer carcass sticking out of the damp snow. On closer inspection, the “reindeer” turned out to be a 40,000-year-old baby mammoth, perfectly encased in ice. The six-month-old female mammoth is the most well-preserved example yet found of […]

…parents who were blind to their child’s treatment status observed significant improvement in their child’s core ADHD symptoms, as well as reductions in cognitive problems and oppositional behavior. By the end of 30 weeks, the magnitude of this improvement was substantial, and not dissimilar from what is often seen in medication treatment studies. As noted […]

I felt totally lost. So what did I do? What any other woman with ADD does who feels inept in the kitchen: I walked around in circles, pretending to be helpful while studying the magic of these women. Ok, so where am I going with all this? As I was studying these moms, I also […]

The most complete skeleton of an extinct Dodo, Raphus cucullatus, ever found was discovered recently in the highlands of Mauritius, an island located in the Indian Ocean. Because this skeleton was preserved intact and isolated in a cave, it appears that it might provide an excellent DNA source for numerous scientific studies, according to the […]

Biologists who inspected the squid said it weighed some 550 pounds (250 kilograms) and stretched 26 feet (8 meters) from head to tentacle—about as long as a school bus. But the beast might have been even longer when it was alive, because the tentacles appeared to be badly damaged. “It’s a whopper,” Genefor Walker-Smith, curator […]

whomever this “fake” steve jobs person is (it’s steve jobs, btw), they are hilarious: My predictions were off a bit. I thought we’d hit $130 before the iPhone hit, just based on the hype. Still, we’ve got a market cap of $114 billion. That’s almost 2x the market cap for Dell. And it’s something like […]

the beatiful krups espresso machine that j1 got me for father’s day either sucks, is broken, or i’m doing something very, very, wrong. here are my problems, so far, after one week of use, and keep in mind that i have worked as a barista in a coffeeshop: i know my way around a bit. […]

Long before TV — in 15th – and 16th – century Italy, and possibly two millennia ago—women were dying their hair blond. A recent study shows that in Iran, where exposure to Western media and culture is limited, women are actually more concerned with their body image, and want to lose more weight, than their […]

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