You remember when temperatures became really moderate and every heat wave could no longer be called global warming because we were not warning. We were enduring climate change instead. That makes some sense, instability is going to occur when things get weird in the atmosphere. Almost everyone thought global warming was a terrible term anyway, lacking any science justification, but global warming is a huge part of why science journalists lost the confidence of the public, and then their jobs because no one felt like journalists were trusted guides on the issue.
Below is a live streaming webcast from the auditorium at CERN, where they will be revealing the latest news on the Higgs discovery.
What causes obesity? Obviously ingesting more calories than a person burns leads to weight gain but what really causes obesity?
Will banning Big Gulps, Happy Meals and Trans fats make people thin? (1)
While a modern 'ban, legislate and micromanage' mentality about food has taken hold on the coasts of the US, obesity researchers in the middle, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, contend handing over even more control of choice to social authoritarians won't work; we instead have to show people that just because you can eat a lot of junk food doesn't mean you should. And go for a walk once in a while.
Greenpeace activists stuck in the 1970s, you need to take a lesson from Madonna; always be reinventing yourself.
Since "The Avengers" is a giant movie this year, when you think of something that shoots lightning,
you might think of Thor. If so, perhaps your clever joke would be "Can we name that
Laser-Induced Plasma Channel "Mjolnir"?If you're old like me, "Star Trek" will be more your thing and "Set your phasers to fry"
will be more your speed.
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Sigmund Freud wrote in The Interpretation of Dreams that "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" - he meant not everything was about sex, which must really frustrate evolutionary psychology grad students(1), being as he is the most famous psychiatrist ever and was wrong about almost everything else but correct on that point.
But that also means a cigar isn't always just a cigar, even in the literal sense. In an era where progressive busybodies have taken to micro-regulation of choice (grocery bags, Big Gulps, goldfish, Happy Meals, golf), it was only a matter of time before the cultural mullahs who want to ban cigarettes (but legalize pot) turned their sights on cigars.