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Prettier Politicians Preferred At Polls
"It is well established that being beautiful confers many advantages on a person." This is the opening sentence of a break-through paper by two Swedes and a Finn. From that…
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Planet Could Be ‘Unrecognizable’ By 2050: Doom Just Around The Corner
If you are in your 40s now, as yours truly is (am?), then by 2050 you and the rest of our cohort will be dead or in our 80s. If…
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Boy Wrestler Refuses To Compete With Girl
We're all adults here, so I'm going to come right out and reveal my misogynistic thesis: men are better athletes than women, in the sense that if you pick any…
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Why Memes Are Stupid: The Short Version
In 1976, in his The Selfish Gene, a book which revealed that most of us are slaves to our genes, biologist Richard Dawkins "discovered" the meme which, in one definition,…
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Scientific American Proposes Socialism As Means To Eliminate Murder
The once great magazine Scientific American has actually had three lives. Around the turn of the last century and for many years after, there was a magazine called Scientific American,…
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Hats Are Back! Staring At Women’s Breasts Lowers Math Scores!
Fedoras For Fellas While watching an exquisite interpretation of the classic hose-in-the-face by one Curley "Babe" Howard on television, I inadvertently saw a commercial for the movie The Adjustment Bureau…
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Two Open Letters To Congress On Climate Change, And A New Third
There are two open letters shot off to Congress these last days, one from "alarmist" scientists and the other from "denialist" scientists1. Those pejoratives were not picked by me, but…
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In Their Own Words: Obama On Health, Holder On Race
Pay for your own damn health care In an interview with Bill O'Reilly, President O'bama said What I hear you saying is that the notion that us saying to people…