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Marijuana For ADHD?

Cannabis and THC, its main psychoactive compound, have been endorsed by people suffering from anxiety...

Rutgers Study - Forcing DEI Programs On People Increases Hostility

If you have done nothing wrong, do you want to be treated like a criminal? That was always the...

Minnesota Trial Lawyers Want To Ban Neonics - Here Is Why That Is A Mistake

Minnesota is having a challenging year, so challenging they are approaching California as the wackiest...

The Toxic Masculinity Of Disney Movies

Once upon a time, stories were just stories. They were fantasies that took people to a new world...

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Semengate - Is Modern Science Sexist Or Hyper Politically Correct?

May 10 2011 | comment(s)

What if a study were produced that said there was something fundamental about how women react to men and it was discussed by the head of a medical body and its official publication? If you are the head of that medical body and the official publication and you discuss it, should you be forced to step down?

Did You Make Out With Your iPhone Today?

May 09 2011 | comment(s)

Mobile Make Out is is an iPhone app that claims to make it possible to make out with someone you are not supposed to be making out with and totally not be called unfaithful by your wife or girlfriend. Why didn't the iPhone exist when Bill Clinton was president? He could have saved us a whole impeachment trial. It will completely redefine what the definition of 'is' is.

Can Pythagoras Save Your Life?

May 09 2011 | comment(s)

I like to think I once led an eclectic, interesting life. I have bribed police in the mid-East, outrun the Bulgarian mafia while driving to get my picture taken with Albanian rebels in Macedonia and searched for the spark true conviction in ancient monasteries. I have generally thought there should be some type of D&D game about my life, or at least a TV movie of the week.

But I am not complete. For example, I have never owned a nightclub, been on any Vanity Fair 'fabulous' list, had a Haitian drug gang put out a hit on me or...died of a drug overdose. Drugs are nasty business, I am told, right after being told how awesome they are, and always by the same people.

Realistic Robots - Uncanny Valley Still Pretty Wide

May 08 2011 | comment(s)

In 1970, Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori described what he called the "uncanny valley", which was a graph showing our affinity for a machine to its likeness of humans. As robots look and act more human-like, our fondness for them increases, but when machines reach a point where they look so much like us that we can barely tell they're different, we feel repulsed instead of affectionate.

Atheists - The Minority It's Okay To Stereotype

May 06 2011 | comment(s)

I often joke, in reference to a black person, woman or gay complaining about some reference or joke in society or in the media about them, that I am all five groups every one of them jokes about, stereotypes and ridicules without any liberal guilt at all; a white, Catholic (not so much these days but you get the idea), Republican (66% of the time), male who was raised in the South. Seriously, when is the last time anyone felt bad ridiculing any of those?

50 Years Of Manned Space Flight - Alan Shepard And Freedom 7

May 05 2011 | comment(s)

50 years ago today, Alan Shepard journeyed into the Final Frontier and became the first American in space, following USSR cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin by a period of weeks.

Here is a look at some of details from that period and, when you are done, you can see our interview with Arthur Cohen, one of the lead engineers for the Mercury Program from 1959-1963.