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Prenatal testosterone levels influence later response to reward I don't know:  it seems a bit depressing to read studies indicating th...

Boys' sickness traced to an old crystal decanter Alicia had been storing her expressed milk in an old crystal glass decanter - the t...

BBC News - Close up: Urban shrimp fishing in Taiwan I knew that the Japanese liked to fish from stocked tanks for fun, but didn't know ...

There's a somewhat long and fairly dull article at Salon entitled " Who Wrote the Book of Mormon ," which spends a lot of time...

BBC News - Sandy: New Jersey devastation Any time a hurricane goes up the East Coast of America, I am a bit surprised to see photos of hou...

Daniel Day-Lewis on Playing Abraham Lincoln - NYTimes.com I'm not overly confident that Spielberg's Lincoln biopic will work:  I su...

Carrots Gain Bigger Roles at Some Restaurants - NYTimes.com If this article is any guide, we might be seeing more new varieties of carrot i...

Disney buys Lucasfilm and Star Wars franchise  I don't know:  it seems to me that it might just be possible that, if you keep George ...

Ancient tsunami devastated Lake Geneva shoreline  I didn't know this:  In ad 563, more than a century after the Romans gave up cont...

Ayn Rand Private Access Show from Michaela Watkins      

Not-so-permanent permafrost As much as 44 billion tons of nitrogen and 850 billion tons of carbon stored in arctic permafrost, or frozen...

Darren the Robot from Good Game Spawn Point gets some humour every few weeks by talking about the enormous data dump he can barely contain. ...

The Secret of Our Non-Success - NYTimes.com More testing of blog entries from android tablet....

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Here's some of the backlog of books I've got waiting to be read, by description if not title: a Charles Sheffield science fiction n...

It was interesting to read yesterday that Tony Abbott, in letters to BA Santamaria before he moved into politics, did not really seem clear...

New singers, old songs: alcohol bans in Aboriginal communities Here's an interesting article by a researcher in the area about the Lib...

Is it real? Physicists propose method to determine if the universe is a simulation The report contains the abstract, which I think is (sor...

A photo this morning of mother and child, who looks like a teenage possum now: