Parents Raising Child As ‘It’
When I first saw that the website with the story of parents raising "gender free" kids ended in ".ca", I thought for sure it came from California. But---Holy Saskatchewan---it's Canada!…
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Wishcasting The End Of The World: Update
Wishcasting is when a forecast or prediction is shaded in the direction the forecaster or predictor wants the event to happen. For example, if you forecast this weekend's weather, you…
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Sin Casa, Sin Curro Y Sin Miedo!
That was the chant of thousands of Spanish youth as they took to the streets last week. The youth---photographic evidence implies a median age of 28---are unhappy with their station…
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City Of Free Love To Ban Circumcision
An enraged citizen's group in San Francisco has submitted legislation that, if passed, would ban abortion---no, wait. I have that wrong. They would ban circumcision. In a fit of Enlightenment…
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Socialist Dominique Strauss-Kahn Not Guilty!
I have done an, admittedly crude, statistical analysis of rape and sexual harassment accusations of rich and powerful men in politics. I was not interested in whether the accusations were…
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Food Deserts: Millions Of Californians Starving Themselves Into Obesity
The blubber is flowing in California. So says that State's venerable University, Los Angeles division. It's an epidemic! Both excessive fatness "increased significantly in just six years". This isn't the…
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There’s More Than One Way To Skin A Dead Companion Animal
There are enough details in the New York Observer report that we can piece together what happened. The scene: the monthly meeting of the New York Skeptics at a Kips…
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College Graduates Are Academically Adrift
Repost I meant for this to run two days, but events overtook. Therefore, I'm restoring it to the top for the remainder of the day. Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on…