Oh joy! Those canny scientists have discovered some new microbes that might be able to kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, to give MRSA its full moniker. How long before that global good is squandered, I wonder (as I have wondered oft before)?

People try Art from Science from tim...

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Purpose, shmurpose. I'm just going to enjoy them.

An article in the Boston Globe reviews a new book on the (evolutionary) purpose of the female orgasm. Bottom line: it ain’t got one. I seem to recall having read similar comments before. Now where was that? Oh yes, I remember. I wrote them....

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Having recently overindulged in roast asparagus (and is there any other way?) two odd stories came to mind.

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I'm not really a city boy, though I do feel that if one is going to live in a city, this is the way to do it; cheek-by-jowl pressed up against the neighbours in densely packed proximity, not faux cottages spread across the land. And one of the joys of the city is being able to enjoy small doses of g...

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... when you're online no one knows if you're an outlaw.

I'm pretty amazed that in the hoohah about Michelle Delio, the latest reporter whose sources couldn't be stood up, nobody seems to have picked up on the above quote, which I found in her Wired biog.¹ Presumably she wrote that herse...

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