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Ah, symbiosis. It’s taking place everywhere, at this very moment. Consider: Trillions of bacteria are milling about in your gut, and they greatly outnumber your gut’s own cells. If your gut were picking tonight’s movie by quorum, the bacteria would win out. (Sorry to say that you’ll be watching Dustin Hoffman in “Outbreak,” once again.)
For those of us living in the United States, we know that our health care system is broken. We know it is broken in a thousand different ways. This is a recent and most telling example: Premature labor drug spikes from $10 to $1,500 Whether that price spike is caused by pure, unregulated money-grubbing greed, [...]
Long Before Bragelina, There Was Dickenliz
by Cristen Conger | March 23, 2011
But before there was Bragelina, TomKat and the rest, there was Dickenliz. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were such a captivating celebrity couple that they earned a nickname before all the others.
Should the internet have a kill switch?
by Ben Bowlin | March 23, 2011
During the ongoing unrest in the Middle East, Internet activists played an enormous role in advocating for Tunisian and Egyptian protestors. When the Egyptian government switched off Internet access across the country, Internet users in the US and abroad began to wonder if their governments possessed the power to shut down the web in a [...]
Yesterday we talked about the amazing number of downloads for Rebecca Black’s song. Is there anything more popular than that? The answer would be yes – Firefox version 4 downloads are happening at an amazing rate and this visualization tool lets you see it happening in real time: Firefox 4 Download Stats At the moment [...]
Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth ‘Crying In Rage’ – “The space vehicle is shoddily constructed, running dangerously low on fuel; its parachutes — though no one knows this — won’t work and the cosmonaut, Vladimir Komarov, is about to, literally, crash full speed into Earth, his body turning molten on impact. As he heads to his [...]
Depressing bedroom news alert! Confirming our worst fears about how the romance slowly fizzles as relationships plod past the seven-year itch and beyond, a new study from Australia finds that a lot of people in long-term heterosexual relationships are unsatisfied with their sex lives (via NYT).
If we as human beings were living “naturally”, without any artificial light sources, how would we sleep? What would our natural rhythm look like? What would our sleeping patterns be in the ideal sense? Well it turns out that when people are living without any sort of artificial light at all, they sleep twice every [...]
So Norway has been wooing me for a while. One time at work, it made me gaze at pictures of fjords and then tried to convince me to book an adorable little fisherman’s cabin right on the water, where I could walk around my dock barefoot in the sunshine.
And now it’s wooing me again — this time with a time-lapse video of the aurora borealis, taken by artist Terje Sorgjerd near Kirkenes, Norway, bordering Russia. According to Sorgjerd, the light show this year was even brighter than usual.
Take a look …
The concept of addiction is a relatively new thing. As recently as colonial America, people drank because they wanted to, there was nothing else to it, certainly not some biological drive that pushed their decisions beyond their own willpower. Over time, people began reporting feeling overcome by the urge to drink or smoke opium or do cocaine, possibly the work of the devil, and the idea that an object like a mug of beer could have an intangible hold over a human being grew into common knowledge.
Initially, it was the addict’s character that was considered at fault. Only a person of poor moral fiber could become addicted to a substance (this idea has always continued to hang around in the shadows of the collective psyche to some extent).
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