Pesky animal rights activists may complain if you eat veal but they can't complain if you eat larvae, right? Those are bugs and people sitting in trees have to eat something while they keep the forest commission from clearing brush or removing dead trees to prevent wildfires.The California State Fair is coming up in a few weeks. It is earlier the last few years, because the...
read moreI just finished watching the Women's World Cup semifinal football match, USA versus France, and am currently preparing to watch Japan versus Sweden and an important difference is immediately noticeable about womens' matches compared to men's.A lot less flopping.If you are not up on complex technical sports jargon, flopping is when, after a minor collision, you fall down and grasp a body part with...
read moreI've long said that what NASA needs is not a James Webb Space Telescope but an actual James Webb for the 21st century.Webb, if you are not familiar with NASA lore, was a bold leader rather than a bureaucrat tasked with perpetuating funding, and it was due to his leadership that NASA launched 75 missions into space, including putting a man on the Moon.read...
read moreA Democratic president banned the use of federal money for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research, a Republican president restricted federal hESC funding to existing lines and a Democratic president continues to limit federal money for hESC research. Who is regarded as anti-science on this issue? Republicans.I know, I know, Democrats are anti-science on plenty of other things - animal...
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