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Can fMRI Predict Who Believes God? Part II
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII I don't want to bore us, but it is crucial to read the team's explanation…
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Can fMRI Predict Who Believes In God? Part I
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII Did you know that "regions" of your brain "light up" when you think about Santa…
Merry Federal Holiday Of December 25th That Shall Remain Nameless!
Here's proof that the unnameable Day's---a.k.a. "holiday", a.k.a. "holidays", a.k.a. (rare) "holy day"---spirit is in all of us. Plus sure evidence that Shakespeare was right (yet again). One grand lady…
Posted inFun Statistics
Top 10 Upsets In The NFL Over Last Decade
Today's post is over at Edgehogs. It's all self explanatory. Surf on over to comment. I'd write more, but my North Pole duties have me busier than average. Tip: Even…
Posted inCulture
The Beauty Contest
Update We'll leave this on top for another day. No theories thus far are correct. The sun was now a steady companion, only occasionally obscured by clouds. The snow was…
Iowa Professor Shocked To Discover He’s In Iowa
Stephen Bloom is a long-time professor of journalism ("Double spacing has twice as much space as single spacing", "On-line journals are called 'blogs'") at the University of Iowa. Bloom thinks…
What’s Funny About Tbilisi Ordinands? Hitchens, Stalin, and Buckley
The (we hope eventually) prodigal son of William F. Buckley said in his New Yorker obituary on Christopher Hitchens: As for the wit...one day we were talking about Stalin. I…
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Ten Politically Incorrect So-Called Truths About Human Nature: 6 – 10
See 1 - 5 here. 6. Beautiful people have more daughters And are thus more likely to divorce? And thus less likely to have fewer kids than the ugly people…