Massachusetts environmentalists are celebrating approval of designated “no-discharge” areas which bans boat sewage along nearly the entire coast of the state. Seriously, they should. Everyone knows if you pass a law against something, it disappears. This is why obesity will disappear in New York City once they make Big Gulps illegal. In those areas the [...]
read moreWorried about mutant mosquitoes created by narrow-minded mad scientists ruining the ecology while they make your children lab rats? Then you must be a reader of the LA Times. Or at least the kind of reader one blogger sought to bring to a frothy, anti-science boil. Fortunately, LA Times editors smelled a Franken-rat and published [...]
read moreWorried about mutant mosquitoes created by narrow-minded mad scientists ruining the ecology while they make your children lab rats? Then you must be a reader of the LA Times. Or at least the kind of reader one blogger sought to bring to a frothy, anti-science boil. Fortunately, LA Times editors smelled a Franken-rat and published [...]
read moreAnthropologists have long believed that bras are a modern invention but archeology has proved them wrong. An Austrian castle discovery by keen researchers from the University of Innsbruck has debunked prevailing dogma that bras only came into vogue after corsets went out of style just over a hundred years ago. The ancient bra is even [...]
read moreDr. Gerard Fealy, from the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems at University College Dublin, looked at nursing portrayals on YouTube videos and did not like what he found; fully 40 percent of the most popular ones portrayed nurses as educated, smart and technically skilled. Nurses were shown as a distinct professional group working [...]
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