... that you're not a turkey.

Before this morning I might have read today’s BBC piece about Aids in Africa and given a world-weary sigh for those poor people. But this morning, via the Freakonomics blog, I read Emily Oster's piece in the December Esquire magazine: Three Things You Don't Know About Aids In Africa.

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A post over on Freakonomics let me discover Science Hobbyist on Traffic Jams -- much of which I already knew, but the experiments he describes are just wonderful. I often try the “evaporate jam” thing myself, by idling along as slowly as I can in traffic; the problem is that Italians, like natur...

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Hurrah! The World Society for the Protection of Animals is soliciting bids to buy a whale from Iceland. Donate USD 10 here at eBay and WSPA will offer the money to the Icelandic government on condition that they spare the life of one fin whale (they’ve already killed five, apparently).

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Sergeant Sarah Brown: It's so delicious. That Bacardi flavouring certainly makes a difference.
Nathan Detroit: Oh, yeah. Nine times out of ten.
Sergeant Sarah Brown: You know, this would be a wonderful way to get children to drink milk.

The above exchange comes in the middle of one of t...

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