March 2012
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“The fringe of physics is not a sharp boundary with truth on one side and fantasy...”
– Freeman Dyson
Mar 28th
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Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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The reality is that things are better than we think and they’re only going to get better
Mar 23rd
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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...
Mar 23rd
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Mar 23rd
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Mar 21st
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Mar 21st
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Mar 21st
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Mar 21st
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Mar 20th
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Mar 19th
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Mar 18th
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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.
Mar 16th
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Mar 14th
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Mar 12th
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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
Mar 9th
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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...
Mar 6th
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“One of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it...”
– Philosopher Alain de Botton
Mar 6th
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Mar 5th
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Reality
Mar 4th
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Mar 3rd