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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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Pluto has been demoted, for no good reason.

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Why did the elephant climb the hill?

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Global warming is a threat except when it’s not.

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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,” [...]

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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 [...]

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