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A comprehensive review of national opinion polls taken before and after Congressional voting and when President Obama signed into law a major healthcare reform bill last month has found that the law'…

"I love cake.  Cake is wonderful.  But it is too easy to get caught up in the idea of cake.  When you compare the data, it is clear that pie is a better choice. " And so Hyperbole and…

Between hooking up and traditional dating, more women than men prefer dating whereas more men rate hooking up above dating, according to a new survey of college students at a midsized southeastern…

The Unscientists 2010 awards Shamelessly stealing the Festival Of Idiots central theme and with no proper credit given to its originator, The Rugbyologist, the Chatter Box proudly announces The…

Here is an amusing quote from novelist Philip Pullman. At the 2010 Oxford Literature Festival, on the early afternoon of Palm Sunday, March 28th, in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre, Philip Pullman gave a…

Web sites that foster online communication and interaction are not merely vapid echo chambers of self-promotion, according to a new study in American Behavioral Scientist. In fact, just the opposite…

You probably think that because I started a hybrid social media/science media darling like Scientific Blogging, adored by many, I must know a lot of people.   Just the opposite is true.  I…

"I love work, it fascinates me; I can sit and watch it for hours". J. K. Jerome

I chose this unusual name (Wabi ) and placed it in front of my name "Don" around 1996 . The word comes from the Japanese and Chinese culture . I have four books on Wabi-…

Random Noise #21 : World's Most Dry and Remote Area How do you go about finding the world's driest, most remote area? You could use a satellite, but that's exceedingly expensive. You could send out…