You might think last year’s Midwest drought, the worst in 25 years and causing crop losses and water shortages in some places, would have an upside; a lot fewer mosquito eggs. Nope. Pesky evolution was around a long time before pesky global warming (okay, maybe not, at one point Earth was really, really warm – […]
read moreIf you read The Curse of Top Gun, you know not to mess with Tom Cruise – and that aging actresses look weird and creepy when they use 1950s technology (plastic surgery) and 13th century diseases (Botox) to try and look young. Lara Flynn Boyle was not in “Top Gun” but she was in “Twin […]
read moreWith a resurgence of bird flu and Chinese scientists so far unable to track down the H7N9 influenza virus’ animal host, people are preparing for a possible pandemic by buying face masks and hand sanitizers. That makes some sense. Chinese authorities are struggling to identify the source and mode of transmission of the virus, which […]
read moreNo matter what a supermodel tells you, you are not going to look like her. There is no fitness regimen, no diet secret, no nothing. It isn’t going to happen. Because you did not have her parents and, even if you did, it’s really a crapshoot. They may want you to think they do special […]
read moreThe social sciences must be a gold mine for single men, right? It’s not as disreputable as the humanities but still has over 70% women-to-men ratios, a solid 2:1 improvement over something like physics, where it’s a big sausage-fest of weird-haired guys yelling about Monte Carlo analyses. If you are a young undergraduate, you are […]
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