Yesterday’s Doonesbury is not funny, antibiotic resistance being one of the great unappreciated squandered commons. Well, actually it is, of course. Very. But I wonder how many people will witter on about “change within a species” and continue living a life that makes no sense except in the light of...

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A bunch of Bible-toting Manitobans is [planning an attack]http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/14909435.htm on the world record for harvesting a quarter-section field of wheat.¹

On one level this is pretty neat. The event is designed to raise money, which will support something ca...

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Here’s a little something written 18 years ago:

The [International Whaling Commission] would be required ... to conserve whales, but could sell annual quotas to the highest bidders. The income would go to running the [IWC], and so the price might be very high, but this would be a realistic value...

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If, like me, you have been left a little confused by the explosion in studies of human migration based on inheritance of the Y chromosome, be prepared to be sorted out. The Bradshaw Foundation has a wonderful animated map that shows the various migration routes, their timing, and what was happenin...

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I don’t know, this just tickled me: How to write good. Hope it does you.