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 [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Mushy'
How Many Civilians Have Died Due to Violence in Iraq?
January 9th, 2008 · 4 Comments · 91 views
Categories: Iraq · Medicine · Mushy · Science · War on Terror
Edison’s Lights Put Out
December 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment · 35 views
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 [...]
Categories: Commentary · Mushy · Original writing · Satire · Science
Why men like to marry younger women
December 6th, 2007 · Comments Off · 52 views
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, [...]
Categories: Mushy · Odd News · Science · Sex · Society
First they came for the…
November 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment · 40 views
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 [...]
Squirrels Ate My Internet
November 27th, 2007 · Comments Off · 22 views
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.
Categories: Blogging · Mushy · Science
Pluto
August 25th, 2006 · Comments Off · 30 views
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 [...]
Categories: Mushy · Original writing · Satire · Science · Space
Pluto Kicked Out of Solar System
August 24th, 2006 · 2 Comments · 38 views
Categories: Hard · Mushy · Science · Space
Stupid Scientific Conclusions
July 25th, 2006 · Comments Off · 22 views
Why did the elephant climb the hill?
Conflicting Headlines
July 11th, 2006 · Comments Off · 12 views
Global warming is a threat except when it’s not.
Expert Expels Excrement
March 14th, 2006 · 3 Comments · 19 views
ABC
Robert G. Webster is one of the few bird flu experts confident enough to answer the key question: Will the avian flu switch from posing a terrible hazard to birds to becoming a real threat to humans?
There are “about even odds at this time for the virus to learn how to transmit human to human,” [...]
Categories: Avian Flu · Commentary · Influenza · Medicine · Mushy · Original writing · Pandemic · Science
Star Trek Errors
February 8th, 2006 · Comments Off · 15 views
The Trekkies have done this for years, pointed out the errors and obvious imposibilities in the various Star Trek shows. Well, here’s my take:
First of all, seatbelts. Nobody’s chair seems designed for any sort of turbulance at all.
Fires. When there’s damage, stuff catches fire. Hey! You’re in a little metal box in a vacuum and [...]
Categories: Mushy · Original writing · Science



