A study by Indiana University researchers on "coregasm" says it has confirmed anecdotal evidence that exercise can lead to female orgasms.Good news for health clubs everywhere? Maybe. But it's been darn hard to pin down reliable data on it. It makes the media rounds - and of course, this site - every few years. read...
read moreA number of conservatives hold strange anti-science positions and the same number of progressives do. The non-social-authoritarians of the political spectrum, mostly those with that liber root word, mostly only deny science when it really bugs them.No wonder that liberal science academics seem to like libertarian Ron Paul. Paul — and libertarian philosophy in general — tackles...
read moreFood stamps are not food stamps now, they are the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits - and record numbers of Americans are receiving them. read...
read moreYoung people have to be greener, right? That crying Indian commercial(1) was 40 years ago, we have to have made progress in pollution by now.Well, we have. But it's not because of young people. Young people are not more likely to be 'green' than their elders, they are less - in defiance of popular perception - just like right wing people conserve energy just as much as the left,...
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When I was a young guy, I had some stuff submitted to the Pennsylvania Governor’s School For The Arts, in art and writing. I went to the university where it was to be held (Bucknell that year) to meet with selection committees or whatever they were called then, and had a nice time. The writing was decent, they said, but the art not so much. This made no sense to me. My art was...
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