Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Life extension through supplements -- not likely to work

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CNN.com - Study: Vitamin E may do more harm than good - Nov 10, 2004 People take large doses of vitamin E in the belief that it helps counte...

Pfizer/Bextra joins Merck/Vioxx on the COX2 firing line

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The New York Times > Business > New Study Links Pfizer's Bextra, Similar to Vioxx, to Heart Attacks A weak retrospective study...
Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Microsoft unchained

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Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - Microsoft Buys 'Peace' ... When the Bush administration made its odious deal to let Mi...

The countries I've visited

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World66 visited countries Here's the map I made: create your own visited country map or write about it on the open travel guide

God has blessed the US

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beliefnet: God intervened to re-elect President Bush; George W. Bush and evangelicals; divine intervention in elections If Kerry won, th...

Feeling bitter?

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F___ the South Amidst the somewhat tongue-in-cheek scatology, dark humor, and genuine frustration are some interesting points. We've...

A calm and well reasoned analysis of the vote

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The Washington Monthly Based on this, my tentative conclusion is that the 'moral values' vote is a red herring. It played no bigger ...

Another electoral college vote by county map

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The Washington Monthly Of all the maps of this type I've seen this is the most interesting. Good guide on where to live. I'd lik...
Monday, November 08, 2004

The Economist on the 100,000 dead Iraqis

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Economist.com | Iraq SOME 100,000 souls—perhaps even more—may have perished in Iraq as a result of the American-led invasion in March last ...

Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?

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Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? It's been a while since I tracked this. Looks like Bostrom has put the discussions together in ...

Cluelessness in America

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The New York Times > Opinion > Bob Herbert: Voting Without the Facts I think a case could be made that ignorance played at least as bi...

The nuclear weapons black market

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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | UN warns of nuclear terror race Mr ElBaradei said the IAEA's investigations into Libya and Iran's suspecte...
Sunday, November 07, 2004

Is America in another great awakening?

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The New York Times > Opinion > Gary Hart: When the Personal Shouldn't Be Political If America has entered one of its periodic eras...

National Museum Of The Middle Class

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The Onion | National Museum Of The Middle Class Opens In Schaumburg, IL One of the better of the recent Onion satires. Their best stuff ...

Life in the church of Bush -- a guide to rationalists

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So, what should a rationalist do? One possibility is to continue on as before. If one's historical perspective extends sixty years or...