The International Astronomical Union, which declared itself the arbiter of names for the entire universe, is in hot water with "Star Trek" fans. A social media campaign, including endorsements by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, put Vulcan at the top of the list of polls aimed at naming two moons (P4 and P5) orbiting Pluto but the IAU vetoed it anyway, according to the SETI press release.Well,...
read moreThe American FDA allows ingredients that are banned in other countries. read...
read moreOne of the sillier arguments regarding gender inequality (and most of them regarding the developed world are pretty silly in 2013) is that Wikipedia, with anonymous editors of suspect credibility, is somehow sexist because fewer people self-identified as female on an internal survey. read...
read moreA vegan extremist website is taking ex-vegans to task for leaving the flock. Exvegans.com, a.k.a. “The Vegan Sell Out List,” shares names, descriptions and photographs of former vegans. Their goal is to publicly humiliate them for renouncing the meat and dairy-eschewing lifestyle, though 'I am too sane to be a militant weirdo at Exvegans.com' sounds more like a sanity endorsement than any...
read moreWind power is not only given an inordinate amount of government money in America - it gets a free pass from Federal arrest warrants that would land the rest of us in court, namely in how many protected birds the industry kills.It's not just the US. Bird-spotters in the UK, some who drove for days because they were ecstatic about the first UK sighting of the rare white-throated needletail since...
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