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Blood Pressure Medication Adherence May Not Be Cost, It May Be Annoyance At Defensive Medicine

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On January 5th, Don't Get Divorced Because Of Hallmark Movies

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To Boomers, An AI Relationship Is Not Cheating

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Can Getting Drunk Make You More Conservative?

Mar 26 2012 | comment(s)

Wait, a study claims drinking alcohol makes you less likely to throw cultural caution to the wind and spend stupidly? Does. Not. Compute.

Unless it's social psychology, but even then no one is believing it unless they are one of the people writing about how screwed up Republicans are, i.e., need some new framework for the confirmation bias of their audience.

Science 2.0 at Being Human

Mar 25 2012 | comment(s)

The Being Human conference was held yesterday, March 24th, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Part of its description is " insights from science and philosophy shed new light on the processes of human experience – the how of feeling, thinking, and believing – and invite us to redefine who we are as human beings."

Double Precautionary Principle Danger: A Robot Built With Nanotubes

Mar 23 2012 | comment(s)

Here is a precautionary principle two-for-one special.

Egyptians Rally Around Fighting Big Tobacco

Mar 23 2012 | comment(s)

You've heard of Egypt; they were in the news last year for riots and for making Twitter relevant. But dictatorships, oppression of women, sexual discrimination and religious intolerance are apparently not the most important cultural fight they face, in the eyes of ultra-conscious New Yorkers - getting people to smoke less is.

Dear Energy Secretary: If You've Lost Jimmy Fallon, You've Lost The Country

Mar 22 2012 | comment(s)

When Energy Secretary Steven Chu was appointed, it was a bit of a policy worry. Yes, he has a Nobel prize in physics but being a scientist has never shown to be any great benefit for policy. Despite the myth that scientists are stoic and serious and unemotionally obeying the Scientific Method it isn't the case at all. Like all other people, they have irrational fixations, and Chu's was a belief that CO2 was the only driver in climate change, which meant we might have a bunch of expensive solutions that actually solve nothing in climate change.

What's More Important; Sex, Money Or...Pet Education?

Mar 22 2012 | comment(s)

LONDON, March 22, 2012 - Two new surveys conducted among 2,500 adults and 400 teachers show what is really on the minds of those concerned about education; the need to teach about pets in schools.

89% of adults, 78% of primary teachers and 70% of secondary teachers believed it is important to teach responsibility using pets and most adults thought it was more important to teach younger children how to care for pets than it was to teach them about sex education or money management. Isn't that going to cause a fight with the 'teach kids to have sex at younger ages' lobby, though? It's Big Pet versus Big Condom for the mindshare of 8-year-olds.