When I want a popsicle, I want a popsicle, I don't need the popsicle framed through social justice issues or a world view, but if you need a certain kind of popsicle to assuage your liberal guilt that you can buy a popsicle and a woman in Arabia cannot (or is it just driving, voting, and wearing clothes of their choosing they cannot do?) , San Francisco - Frisco as local people love to call it -...
read moreTo replace Bruce Arena four years ago, U.S. Soccer should have gotten Juergen Klinsmann, former coach and player for the German national team. Instead, they settled for Bob Bradley. Now, they get a chance to fix that mistake. Klinsmann was a great player, a great coach and he is more American than I am, so he will have no problem at all showing an American team how to play world-caliber...
read moreIf you want to get people on bikes, there has to be a compelling reason that offsets looking like a dork in a helmet or showing up sweaty at work. One reason that may work – convincing women they should like sweaty dorks on bikes. Jan Garrard, an Australian researcher, is an expert on biking [...]
read morePieris rapae is a chromatic white butterfly – to us, anyway. In the UV spectrum they have a number of bright colors on their upper wings but we can’t see them. Pterins, pigments on their wing scales, vary a lot among them and can be impacted by diet. The brighter the male colors, the more [...]
read moreSeriously, with the final return of the space shuttle in the news, how many of you were tempted to rent ape suits and go to the landing strip? A lot, I bet. NASA takes this stuff pretty seriously but you just know the astronauts would have lost it. Apes are always funny, unless you are [...]
read moreIf you hear someone today, especially a kooky cultural militant, use the term ‘Victorian’ as a sneer, they likely mean repressed. They have read too much Freud and not enough actual history. The Victorian era was actually a hotbed of artistic, literary, religious, social and political ideas in Britain, along with prosperity and imperial expansion [...]
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