As I wrote in Like Freedom? Thank A Scientist - How Science Made America Possible, during the meetings of the the Continental Congress during independence discussions, Thomas Jefferson noted the temperature on four separate occasions. Jefferson like many others present, was a citizen scientist long before there was government funding for it. The same climate of liberalism (liberals,...
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 [...]
read moreA study that set out to reveal the genetic factors that help people live to ages 100 and older (see Identified: Genetic signatures of exceptional longevity in humans) has been retracted. The researchers reported 150 genetic variations that could be used to predict whether a person was genetically inclined to live to be 100, based on the genomes of over 1,000 centenarians, but geneticists...
read moreIt’s cultural trivia to 95% of the world but a big event is about to occur. No, I am not talking about the latest wedding in the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family (oops, sorry, they go by Windsor now), that between Prince William and his commoner girlfriend Catherine, I mean the beatification of Pope John Paul II. To [...]
read moreCheryl Cole has the body most women want, say cosmetic surgeons. And maybe a few men, says me. Liberate, a consortium of BAAPS and/or BAPRAS accredited cosmetic surgeons in the UK, surveyed 3000 women between the ages of 18-34 and determined who cosmetic surgeons should be preparing to sculpt average women into – Cheryl Cole. [...]
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