Bad news for bloggers; the courts love to protect journalists, even those shysters who use 'anonymous' sources that have directly led to the rash of modern journalists inventing even Pulitzer Prize-winning stories that were made from whole cloth - but bloggers are not under that umbrella.Uber-progressive Oregon is, no surprise, not on the side of the little guy here and instead went with the most...
read moreTeenagers 16 years old and younger would have been able to get the 'Morning-After' Pill, called Plan B One-Step, under new FDA guidelines. Currently, they can get it, it just requires a prescription and teenagers 17 years and older can get it freely.
read moreEye evolution is always interesting stuff, as I last discussed regarding Dr. Ivan Schwab's "Evolution's Witness". A new finding suggests that the compound eyes evolved right at the origin of this branch of the evolutionary tree, long before the sorts of hard exoskeletons we now consider typical of...
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I go deer hunting with my family every year, usually in Pennsylvania, one time to Montana for big game. This past season my older brother Greg brought a picture that he had found in the house my grandparents once lived in – he had bought the house from my grandmother a few years ago (darn good timing for her too, as housing values now can attest) and was remodeling it and found the...
read moreAt the AGU meeting in San Francisco, journalist Simon Winchester apologized to attendees for his March 2011 article that claimed the Tohoku Earthquake in Japan could trigger a daisy chain of temblors in North...
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