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Need to Quit Smoking? Survivor Style Solution
Pity the poor sheep. A businessman who has smoked 30-a-day for decades is to maroon himself on a remote Scottish island in an effort to quit the habit. Former merchant banker Geoff Spice is due to land on the small isle of Sgarabhaigh, off Harris in the Outer Hebrides, over the weekend. Mr Spice, 56, will spend four weeks in solitude with only some books and the island’s sheep for company. BBC … Read entire article »
How Many Civilians Have Died Due to Violence in Iraq?
The New England Journal of Medicine presents the findings of an Iraqi study of the number of civilian deaths due to violence since the Liberation. It’s not 601,027 as the Lancet study proposed. It’s not 500,000. Or 400,000. Or… well, you get the idea. ABSTRACT Background Estimates of the death toll in Iraq from the time of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 until June 2006 have ranged from 47,668 (from the Iraq Body Count) to 601,027 (from a national survey). Results from the Iraq Family Health Survey (IFHS), which was conducted in 2006 and 2007, provide new evidence on mortality in Iraq. Methods The IFHS is a nationally representative survey of 9345 households that collected information on deaths in the household since June 2001. We used multiple methods for estimating the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Medicine, Mushy, Science, War on Terror
Why men like to marry younger women
The answer is to be found in Lapland, it seems. Or was that Lapdanceland? Telegraph Now Dr Samuli Helle, University of Turku, has found the answer with the help of a study of the nomadic Sami, the “reindeer people” of Finland. Finnish parish records from the 17th to 19th century on three Sami populations, who depended on reindeer herding, fishing and hunting for their livelihood, make it possible for researchers to disentangle the effects of medical progress on the number and life span of Sami men who married only once. What they found was that the men maximized their “evolutionary fitness” – ability to pass on their genes to future generations – by marrying women who were 14.6 years younger, and vice versa. “Those men had the highest number of offspring surviving to adulthood,” said Dr … Read entire article »
First they came for the…
From Tim Blair Fox News “People need to understand the impact of their lifestyles,†British environmental consultant Joanna Yarrow tells New Scientist magazine. “Clearly the environmental implications of having a frivolous luxury like a beer fridge are not hitting home. This research helps inform people — let’s hope it has an effect.” You can have my beer fridge when you pry it from my cold, drunken hands! … Read entire article »
Squirrels Ate My Internet
It rained yesterday and I had no Internet. Time Warner told me the last time that I had them out that the squirrels love to eat the cable insulation. We had cable, but no Internet. That’s why I was invisible. … Read entire article »
Pluto
What did George Bush know and when did he know it? What efforts are bing made on behalf of the many refugees from Pluto created by this decision? Shouldn’t NASA be disbanded? After all, they’ve operated for decades telling us that Pluto was a planet. NASA lied! Pluto died! Those of us who supported Titan for planethood are shocked! Shocked, I tell you! Just goes to show that a bought and paid for astronomer doesn’t stay that way. You Earthlings haven’t heard the end of this! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Mushy, Original writing, Satire, Science, Space
Pluto Kicked Out of Solar System
CNN After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. The new definition of what is — and isn’t — a planet fills a centuries-old black hole for scientists who have labored since Copernicus without one. You realize, of course, that this means WAR! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Hard Science, Mushy, Science, Space
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Edison’s Lights Put Out
December 21st, 2007 | 1 Comment
The Congress has spoken. That light bulb you climb on a chair to change every so often? Banned within a few years. Instead, you’ll be forced to buy compact fluorescent lights, CFL’s, those squiggly blubs. Here’s what GE says, and remember they WANT you to buy CFL’s. Because the wattage of a CFL bulb is much lower than that of an incandescent, you can use higher wattage CFL giving you the equivalent light of a higher wattage incandescent. For example: If your fixture says not to exceed 60 watts, you can use a 15 watt CFL to get the same amount of light as an incandescent bulb or use up to a 42 watt CFL and increase the amount of light. CFLs are safe to use in your home. CFLs contain a very small … Read entire article »
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