March 2012
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The fringe of physics is not a sharp boundary with truth on one side and fantasy...
– Freeman Dyson
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The reality is that things are better than we think and they’re only going to get better
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Billions of Sexes (Part 1) - From Transgender to... →
There are two sexes, male and female, right? Wrong! In fact, there is a continuum of sex types, ranging from very male to very female, with countless variations in between.
This startling new notion is just now beginning to emerge from feminist thinking, scientific research, and a grass-roots movement called “transgenderism.” In the future, labeling people at birth as “male” or “female” will be...
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Sex-starved fruit flies turn to drink →
Male fruit flies that have been rejected by females drink significantly more alcohol than those that have mated freely, scientists say.
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As I grow in age, I value women over 40 most of all. Here are just a few reasons...
– Andy Rooney, CBS 60 Minutes Correspondent
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The Death of the Cyberflâneur →
THE other day, while I was rummaging through a stack of oldish articles on the future of the Internet, an obscure little essay from 1998 — published, of all places, on a Web site called Ceramics Today — caught my eye. Celebrating the rise of the “cyberflâneur,” it painted a bright digital future, brimming with playfulness, intrigue and serendipity, that awaited this mysterious online type. This...
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One of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it...
– Philosopher Alain de Botton
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Reality
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