The rise of resistant diseases is one of the biggest reasons I fear socialized medicine. Innovation is critical to the next century and I am afraid that price controls will kill it.
This is why I read Joe Posnanski religiously. A post about nothing. And it’s beautiful.
I was going to write an article taking apart Buzz Blowhard Bissinger on the subject of college football. Now I don’t have to.
A study says women value sleep more than sex. This is unsurprising although the reasons are a bit different than what they think. It’s pure economics. For women, sex is available (mostly) when they want it so sleep takes priority. For men, you have to get it when you can, so everything else is secondary. I think Seinfeld did an episode on this, no?
This week’s linkorama is brought to you by my insanity over the last two weeks.
Will even a little red meat kill you? Maybe not. But even if it did, what’s the point in living a couple of extra years if you’re hungry and miserable for the previous 70?
I’ve commented enough on the Sandra Fluke business at the other site and on Twitter. But here’s one last piece on the lack of outrage when conservative women are smeared — sometimes by supposed feminists.
These ads for a symphony are startlingly beautiful. I love modern photography.
A little profile of one of the more important First Amendment defenders out there.
Now this is cool. A plant is brought back to life after 30,000 years. I once wrote a very cliched short story about a human having the same thing happen; being woken up millennia after our extinction by intelligent insects.
I knew that kids understood words at much younger ages than we thought. They’re sorta like cats: they just can’t be bothered to talk back until they need something.
Mathematical Malpractic Watch: the financial crisis. They have one outlier data point. And it seems much more likely that men move back in with their families because they economy is in the shitter, not the other way around.
A wonderful note about overcoming racism and Sidney Pottier.
An amazing story about a man surviving two months in the snow.
This graph-laden article is probably one of the more intelligent analyses I’ve read of the trends in marriage in our society. Long story short? People are still getting married; they’re just waiting longer. That’s not entirely a bad thing.
Virginia deregulates business that have no business being regulated. Now if only we could get Pennsylvania to go along.
This article, which has top 10 lists for everything, is like crack to me. Help!
Also this. I shudder to think how productive I’d be without the internet. I agree with what they say about why the Republican Presidential field is so silly.
Turns out there are only four or five degrees of separation.
Cracked again, this time on gadgets lying. I always wondered about my laptop battery.
This is very true; says the man who just bought an iPad.
I should blog more on Israeli efforts to discourage Israelis from marrying American Jews. This is not the first time I’ve encountered that attitude. And it won’t be the last.