... were a significant other (or whatever the weasel phrase is these days) he or she would have dumped me long ago. I mean, lack of commitment, useless trinkets, and always the excuses: I'm tired, my wrist hurts, I've got nothing to say, I've had visitors, there's this other web site.

The fact is, I can see there's a pattern of abuse here.

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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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... 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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Francis Crick, who died on 28 July at the age of 88, was trained as a physicist but became arguably the most influential biologist of the twentieth century. His great curiosity was coupled to highly original thinking; through force of intellect he obtained answers to many fundamental problems. In...

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