April 2009
13 posts
Fluorescent puppy is world's first transgenic dog →
Yes, Looks Do Matter →
"My bullied son's last day on Earth." →
Nokia: We Don't Know Why Criminals Want Our Old... →
MTV shifts away from "rich girls" shows as Obama... →
Before test of rote memorization move your eyes... →
Comments Several studies have confirmed this bizarre proposition: If you’re taking a test of rote memorization, like words from a list, move your eyes from side to side for about 30 seconds…
Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt... →
On Friday, EFF and the law firm of Fish and Richardson filed an emergency motion to quash [pdf] and for the return of seized property on behalf of a Boston College computer science student…
“Ferrari says that chronic procrastination is now so serious a condition it needs...”
– Hi-tech is turning us all into time-wasters in The Observer.
In 1958, 94% of Americans disapproved of marriage... →
New Discovery May End Transplant Rejection →
mmmscience writes with this excerpt from the Examiner: “Big news in the medical world: scientists in Australia have found a way to stop the body from attacking organ transplants, greatly decreasing…
The War on Drugs: Methamphetamine →
Remember when you could walk into a pharmacy and buy a decongestant like Sudafed? The key ingredient was pseudoephedrine, a precursor to methamphetamine. A series of laws made it more and more…
A new and amazing plan for economic stimulus →
Indeed, and I am not being sarcastic.
Of course there are many illegal markets that would generate stimulus were they to be legalized. Here are some of the big ones.
Drugs
Guns
…
Joshua Schachter on URL Shorteners →
Joshua Schachter: The worst problem is that shortening services add another layer of indirection to an already creaky system. A regular hyperlink implicates a browser, its DNS resolver, the…