From Mark’s Daily Apple:
Life, Rare and Fragile: Ignore evolution at your peril. Ignore the undeniable fact that the human animal (like any other) arose under certain environmental pressures, pressures that persisted for most of our formative years. Even more important than what our ancestral environments looked like is what they did not look like. They [...]
From Entropy Production:
Entropy Production: All Medical Science is Wrong within a 95% Confidence Intervalor: A Review of Taubes’ “Good Calories, Bad Calories”: Recently I read a very impressive book by Gary Taubes, previously a reporter for the journal Science. The work in question is, “Good Calories, Bad Calories.”‘ In the book, Taubes collects research to [...]
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From Slashdot.org:
Slashdot Technology Story | Microsoft Says Google Chrome Frame Makes IE Less Secure: The release of Google Chrome Frame, a new open source plugin that injects Chrome’s renderer and JavaScript engine into Microsoft’s browser, earlier this week had many web developers happily dancing long through the night. Finally, someone had found a way to [...]
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From CNN.com:
Commentary: Drinking age of 21 doesn’t work – CNN.com: One year ago, a group of college and university presidents and chancellors, eventually totaling 135, issued a statement that garnered national attention. The “Amethyst Initiative” put a debate proposition before the public — “Resolved: That the 21-year-old drinking age is not working.” …Most of the rest of [...]
From The Washington Post:
George F. Will – The Supreme Court’s Chance to Dump McCain-Feingold and Aid Free Speech – washingtonpost.com: Last March, during the Supreme Court argument concerning the Federal Election Commission’s banning of a political movie, several justices were aghast. Suddenly and belatedly they saw the abyss that could swallow the First Amendment.
A friend [...]
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Well, we made it through the weekend, but it was tough. Moving In This past weekend was move in weekend for the freshmen at UMass Dartmouth. In what turned out to be a giant fiasco, the move in process which was scheduled to take an hour ended up taking 6. Hurricane Danny had something to do with [...]
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Phone Call I got a call from my mother yesterday. An old family friend had died. Fred Sgambaty had been struggling the last several years, and had peacefully passed on while watching a baseball game. As I was thinking about Fred I started to realize the tremendous impact he’d had on my life. My earliest memories of Fred [...]
From xkcd.com:
Sheeple:
… and I’m thinking: “I’m the only one that gets this comic!”
From Slashdot:
Microsoft Discloses Windows 7 Pricing: It’s the tripnaut! writes “Information Week has posted prices for Windows 7. From the article: ‘The full version of Windows 7 Home Premium is priced at $199, with an upgrade from Vista or XP costing $119. The full version of Windows 7 Professional is $299, with upgrades going for [...]
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