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Health Insurance Isn’t Health Care
We talked this to death in the run up to Obamacare, but somehow, nobody knows how, the words of wisdom emanating from this site did not find purchase. I was…
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Science Shows How Not To Get Killed By A Cow
"Murderous cattle are an understudied phenomenon, say veterinarian Angharad Fraser-Williams and other researchers at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom." You bet they're understudied. When's the last time…
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In Support of Unpaid Work
Editor says: note the author's name. From The Atlantic: Unless things change, girls today will spend hundreds of thousands more hours than boys doing unpaid work simply because society assumes…
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Saying “He’s A No-Good, Pandering Populist” In A Democracy Is Funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NsrwH9I9vE This video is an allegory for what Trump is doing to the GOP. First things first. All you guys who support Donald Trump and believe he is a "true,…
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Arrgh
I was correcting my (many lazy and stupid and regrettable) mistakes, thankfully pointed out by YOS, in the soul posting and hit the wrong button. I seem to have lost…
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Physician Oaths, Then & Now
It is well worth examining the changes over time in the oaths physicians swear to, especially as we have entered an era when the term "doctor" is being applied to…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: Creation Is Not Change From Something To Something
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Creation-from-nothing is…
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Angry Ovulating Women, Women Angry At Ovulation
Well, here's the headline: "How women can tell when other females are ovulating using clues in their face - and how they may then try to hide their partners from…
