At 01:00 PM 2/3/2008, William T Goodall wrote: snip ... There is an interesting discussion about which sex benefits from monogamy in Robert Wright's _Moral...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJwhB2e_hjA If this has any force of fact behind it, it is big news.....from The Good News. <G> In any case Sci gets Pwned...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrkchXCzY70 "It has come to the attention of Anonymous that there are a number of you out there who do not clearly understand...
When I woke up the computer this morning, the monitor made a number of popping sounds somewhat similar in sharpness and volume to the sound a cap pistol makes....
So why is that (Korean) Kimchi manages to stink up the whole kitchen even when it is in a (Korean. Completely airtight!) Lock'n'Lock box in the fridge? "You've...
View the photos: http://oddorama.com/2008/02/04/baby-saved-from-fire-by-being-thrown-from-building/ http://tinyurl.com/33rq3d If there weren't pictures to...
Folks, I'm going to attend an Aspen Institute seminar in a couple of weeks, so I've been reading the source materials, and an intriguing thought occurred to...
Folks, Some of you no doubt know (of) the linguist Steven Pinker, who wrote "The Language Instinct" and other books. Here's a fascinating article about...
My off-list e-mails to you are bouncing, your e-mail provider doesn't like my e-mail provider or something. :( Just wanted to say, I'll check it out next...
http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/01/i-would-probably-never-do-this.html The bad thing is that I had to have this explained to me. I had seen this...
So has anyone else read Kieth's story? Kieth, have you considered, rather than transformation into a "spirit world", a transformation into some sort of...
http://www.fstdt.com/fundies/top100.aspx?archive=1 "No, everyone is born Christian. Only later in life do people choose to stray from Jesus and worship satan...
Probably for the best that our man K not comment on this for obvious reasons. But I have been enjoying the recent COS (L.Ron's bane) news lately. First was the...
... I worked out a mechanism for this to happen. http://www.terasemjournals.org/GN0202/henson.html This is part of an unfinished longer story that describes a...
Just a heads-up - Catch me on the History Channel's "Life After People" - January 21 at 9pm. A pretty cool show about how all our works may crumble, if we ...
OK, I set up a Gmail account such that it should receive mail from my zo.comaddress and it should send mail using that address. I sent test messages from...
... I'm glad at least someone knew that one. Despite its brevity, I think Portal ought to be game of the year. It was fun, darkly hilarious, and features a...
Not that I wish to send people away from our happy little mailing list, but loyalty to my employer calls for me to point out that there is a place for talking...
... From: d.brin Date: Jan 20, 2008 1:49 PM Subject: David Brin on History Channel 1/21/08 Just a heads-up - Catch me on the History Channel's "Life After...
Some one on the Culture list posted a link to the prologue of the new Banks Culture novel that is available in the U.S. at the end of next month. I had ...
"A New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories" <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/business/worldbusiness/19palmoil.htm> (Registration...
if creationist president elected: scientists "WASHINGTON (AFP) — A day after ordained Baptist minister Mike Huckabee finished first in the opening round to...
I love the wikipedia - a source of information - and its parodies, the uncyclopedia and the conservapedia - sources of humor. But I didn't get this: ...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/uow-clw011708.php Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off...
http://tinyurl.com/2xekb4 "Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee sprinter, has been denied a shot at the Olympics... for being too fast. The runner -- who uses...
