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Category Archives: Science
Our Bodies, Our Choices – Part II: Men and Their Members
Part II of Tom Gualtieri’s series examining circumcision focuses on men and their parts. Continue reading
Posted in Science, Sex
Tagged Bris, Circumcision, Foreskin Restoration, Genital Mutilation, Male Circumcision, Male Genital Mutilation, MGM, Ryan McAllister
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Sick Business
When medicine and capitalism collide, Jennifer Sky writes, there is collateral damage. Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Science
Tagged medicine, New Zealand, Obamacare, socialist medicine, universal health care
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Lion Fever in Connecticut
A mountain lion was killed by a car in Milford, Connecticut. Elizabeth Eslami investigates what this unusual event means — and what it doesn’t. Continue reading
Posted in News, Science
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, CT, DamnedCT.com, Eastern cougares, lions
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Science, Art and the Magic of Life
The paradox inherent in human nature that helped us evolve into what we are today may well be our downfall. Danbert Nobacon investigates the merging of science and art. Continue reading
Posted in Science, The Arts
Tagged Darwin, darwinpunk, Dawkins, Dr. Seuss, E.O. Wilson, evolution, in vitro, Paul Gaughin, The Social Conquest of Earth
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Marking Time
James Greer’s brief history of time, and the instruments that measure it. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture, Science
Tagged BITC, Casio, Dogme 95, in sync, Logic, Michael Bay, NLE, Pro Tools, SMPTE, the history of time, time, water clocks
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Robots!
James Greer glimpses the future at the Media Lab at MIT…and lives to tell the tale. Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged John Hockenberry, malevolent robots, Media Lab at MIT, robots, Technology, the future
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Black Hole In My Head: The Science of the Soul
The soul, life after death, out-of-body experiences, reincarnation: modern science proves it’s all bunk…or does it? James Greer investigates some eternal questions. Continue reading
Apocalypse Soon
The Book of Revelation got it wrong: there are SEVEN Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Religion, Science
Tagged 666, apocalypse, Black Death, contagion, doom, End Days, end of the world, famine, four horsemen of the apocalypse, global warming, plague, war
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Rogue Commentary from 2025
Danbert Nobacon reports from Manhattan in 2025, where polar bears are being relocated to the South Pole, Jenna Bush is president, and a Wall of malls protects the city from the impending super-storm and refugees from New Jersey. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture, Science
Tagged ExxonMobil, global warming, Manhattan 2025, polar bears, the future
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The Math of the Military Industrial Fossil Fuel Complex
An economy based on fossil fuel reaps disgusting profits for Big Oil, while fomenting war and destroying the planet. Danbert Nobacon investigates. Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Science
Tagged Big Oil, choice, climate change, energy, fossil fuel, global warming, oil
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Our Bodies, Our Choices – Part I
In which Tom Gualtieri examines the right to choose… Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Religion, Science, Sex
Tagged AAP, American Academy of Pediatrics, Bris, Circumcision, Circumcision Guidelines, Circumcision Policy, Circumcision Recommendations, David Reimer, FGM, Foreskin, Genital Cutting, Genital Mutilation, Male Circumcision, MGM, rape, Sex, vagina
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