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Sputnik rides again:
Follow the amazing adventures of
Sputnik the crocadilly. What was he up to August 7th? In metioning anything crocky, we should give a shout out to
old Rol.
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at 12:08 PM on August 23, 2005
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How To Live Forever:
More research suggests that there is no such thing as aging, and reminds me of that quote from the Barbarian Brothers, "there is no such thing as overtraining, there is only undereating and undersleeping." As opposed to
Timothy 8. Also, I
LOVE the
HNRCA database. Get yer
mutli people, get it!
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at 10:12 AM on August 10, 2005
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Secular government,
extremist population? How is this going to play out? Where is America headed? Europe, France in particular, may face secular challenges because of imigration and subculture integration, but what's the excuse on the other side of the Atlantic? Is the US prepared to challenge the Middle East and Africa for the coveted
Most Fundamentalist Population Prize?
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at 8:58 AM on June 15, 2004
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Vitamin dosage is a much debated issue. Is there any real difference between the minimal and the optimal? There are the
public standards, and then there are
other perspectives. Given the potential impact on public health as new RDIs are adopted, what do you think we should take?
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at 10:52 AM on April 12, 2004
(7 comments)
Technomorality: Are there more
examples of
this, or are the Japanese just better than us? As the potential of technology increases, isn't it just possible that the world really could become a better place?
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at 12:26 PM on March 30, 2004
(27 comments)
Gay Princes defeat NC Parents.
Parents object to library book about two gay princes, concerned because being gay "is not part of their beliefs." Presumably books which discuss other things not part of their beliefs could also be an issue. Is this a basic confusion about the purpose of a library, or is any temptation just too much temptation?
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at 9:29 AM on March 18, 2004
(87 comments)
Recharge Your Ovaries?
Would it be better to have babies in our 60's? What if we could eliminate menopause? Is this just another instance of the dawn of agelessness?
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at 10:27 AM on March 10, 2004
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New Nickels On The Way!
My metafilter loving friend Jeff says, "Why bother." I'm excited about it though. I've got lots of change from everywhere. Am I barely qualified to do laundry around the world, or is it pretty neat that foreign money looks fake? Is Jeff right? Is small change a waste of time? Can you judge a state by its quarter?
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at 12:02 PM on March 4, 2004
(46 comments)
Devices like
these or
these may be able to detect lying better than a polygraph and less intrusively. If this technology really really worked and everyone had access to it, say, in their cell phones, would life be any different? How would it change anything, if at all? Sex? Politics? Hip-hop?
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at 5:24 AM on January 21, 2004
(36 comments)
Pills for Problems: The
British have taken steps to restrict the use of some antidepressants.
Breggin and others have been warning us for some time now about the many problems with medicating behavior. The Big Picture: Aren't "medications" (legal or not) used for behavioral problems just an
excuse for us not
controlling ourselves?
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at 6:56 AM on December 16, 2003
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Mr. Cowasjee
writes about the noble beginning of Pakistan's government (again) this week, how the dream has gone unrealized, and how the predicted degeneration occurred. Why does this happen? Why are fundamentalist freaks trying to destroy the dream in our own country? Why don't people pay attention to Thomas Jefferson and leave religion at home?
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at 7:49 AM on August 15, 2003
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Why Do Gays Smoke So Much?
Yet another escape from the cruel shackles of responsibility. Why do Gays smoke? 1. They have no children. 2. Social Opprobrium. 3. People are mean.
This isn't journalism. It's crap. High risk behaviors tend to promote other high risk behaviors, like the tattoos-sex-cigaretts connection. It could be something even more sinister, like the values of particular subcultures.
How can we get people to take more responsibility for self destructive behavior? Cigarettes, fat, alcohol, unsafe sex... if we are ever forced into National Health Care, there will be no reason to deny ourselves anything. Have another cigarette on me.
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at 8:10 AM on August 5, 2003
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Whiteness Studies
Liberals are going the extra mile to validate economic insanity by Conservatives. Do some people have an economic advantage? Do majorities have something in common that minorities don't share? I went to Japan this year, and sure, being a minority sucks. Does that mean that there is whiteness or blackness or asianness, or the new and exciting hispanicness? No.
There's no such thing. Stop the madness: Race and Gender are just more games for people who need hobbies. Insanity inside.
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at 5:14 AM on June 20, 2003
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Multiculturalism v/s Democracy
On this day in 1858, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois and Abraham Lincoln, a Kentucky-born lawyer and one-time U.S. Representative from Illinois, began a series of famous public debates on the issue of slavery, during the course of which Lincoln said:
"They [Founding Fathers]
meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all: constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even, though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people, of all colors, every where."
I argue that when a culture values slavery, when a culture is built upon a system of basic inequality, regardless of the reasons, that culture is incompatible with Democracy and the ideals of American society, and can not and should not be embraced by Americans.
Is it possible that part of the anger at the US stems from the "spreading and deepening" influence of American principles, and not just at our economic and military mistakes?
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at 5:43 AM on August 21, 2002
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