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.
This article about women not marrying, is interesting but sounds like the author is trying to persuade herself of something she doesn’t really believe. Also, I resent being the 80%.