Tip of the hat to the barking mad Maoist International Movement who’s use of youtube is brilliant beyond all reason. Only 45,000,000 served by Mao, mind you. But the videos… god, this guy is good.
Read more →60% of developed world cancer is from too little vitamin D? Let this be true.
Read more →WAPO A case in point is Ahmed Belbacha, 37, an Algerian who worked as a hotel waiter in Britain but has been locked up at Guantanamo for five years. The Pentagon has alleged that Belbacha met al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden twice and received weapons training in Afghanistan. His attorneys dispute the charges and say [...]
Read more →Reason on gender inequality in pay. June O’Neill, an economist at Baruch College and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, has uncovered something that debunks the discrimination thesis. Take out the effects of marriage and child-rearing, and the difference between the genders suddenly vanishes. “For men and women who never marry and never have [...]
Read more →Mars has warmed about as much as the Earth has over the same period Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake. Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. [...]
Read more →National Geographic piece suggests that everything we know about mass extinctions may be wrong. Remarkable turn around this would be if it pans out. Everything you think you know is also wrong.
Read more →Beautiful writing about laziness When I returned from lunch I saw another friend circling the safe, studying it intently. He had not been a party to the earlier fiasco. “What are you doing?” I asked. “I’m going to move the safe,” he stated matter-of-factly. “Do you want to help?” “You’ve got to be kidding. I’ve [...]
Read more →Boing Boing on the subject Huge story about developing world culture advancing over the developed world here. I prefer “rich” and “poor” as you know…
Read more →So, think this through with me. Firstly, let’s assume that evolutionary history consists of nearly infinite numbers of generations. “Gunfights,” in which inter-species and intra-species competition kills nearly everything alive, followed by massive repopulation, followed by more gunfights, average a lesser quantity of living gene replicas at any given moment in time, although any given [...]
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