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We Need To Slaughter Owls To Save Them, Environmentalists
Here is a quiz to accurately determine how devoted an environmentalist you are. What is the best way to "save" Oregonian owls? (a) Ignore them and let them take care…
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Prettier Politicians Preferred At Polls
"It is well established that being beautiful confers many advantages on a person." This is the opening sentence of a break-through paper by two Swedes and a Finn. From that…
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Midweek Catchup: The Natural Advantage Of Doomsayers
Micro-economics of the End of the World As I sit contemplating my under-employment and its various causes, it became clear to me that my natural sunny disposition has hampered me.…
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Planet Could Be ‘Unrecognizable’ By 2050: Doom Just Around The Corner
If you are in your 40s now, as yours truly is (am?), then by 2050 you and the rest of our cohort will be dead or in our 80s. If…
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Weekly Mail
I receive regularly a lot of red hot tips from regular readers, but as the week goes on they are often buried by newer mail. Thus I will try out…
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Boy Wrestler Refuses To Compete With Girl
We're all adults here, so I'm going to come right out and reveal my misogynistic thesis: men are better athletes than women, in the sense that if you pick any…
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Why Memes Are Stupid: The Short Version
In 1976, in his The Selfish Gene, a book which revealed that most of us are slaves to our genes, biologist Richard Dawkins "discovered" the meme which, in one definition,…
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Time Travel
I uncovered this photo of yours truly and one Robert E. Beamon Jr of (then) Chicago, Illinois. It was taken, with respect to our time, some twenty-eight years ago, in…
