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Via tmn , we learn of the awards ceremony hosted by the US Partnership for Public Service that acknowledges the seen and unnoticed efforts...

betteridge’s law : the legacy of Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe, and commoditising fascinating factiods to sell newspapers   conge...

Brain Pickings, using a speculative survey of the nature of nothing and how chaos, harnessed for opportunity can come of that void as a prov...

Experimentation is possibly demonstrating the waning efficacy of pesticides, namely in tests involving the pervasive chemical DEET . Mosqui...

A few days ago, the Daily Mail reported on a Brazilian study that seemed fairly comprehensive and scientifically balanced that supported a s...

Speaking of stained teeth , no where do I feel more self-conscious of my smile than when I see the contrast between something control-white,...

It’s painful to contemplate—and is by no means exclusive or necessarily defining but as far as trends go, so goes America, so goes the worl...

Summer recesses and vacation opportunities, depending on the culture of course, I think have always muted financial developments. It is, h...

I have contributed a nominal amount to my private pension fund, an opportunist surely that blurs the limits between brooding a nest-egg and...

From the creative franchise that offers the daily web comics Toothpaste for Dinner , Married to the Sea , and Natalie Dee , there is a new...

Just because there is the gloomy, heavy drapery of bankers’ crises and the pummeling occasion of planters’ style democracy obscuring the nex...

Over the weekend, I took a long walk, seeking out a so-called Fossil Trail that I had seen posted beforehand in the area. The local foothil...

Unless and until I am proven (or convinced) otherwise, I tend to regard all exports and the odd re-import from the United States with quite ...

Generally, I am only keenly aware of the restrictions against smoking when corralled through security after a trans-Atlantic flight. The l...

From the science desk at Boing Boing , initial experiments conducted at the University of Nanking seem to indicate that eating, and the choi...

A professor in the American state of North Carolina may have accidentally discovered the pathogen behind the mysterious and wide-spread die ...

The poinsettia (Weihnachts-stern) will only naturally produce these brilliant, festive red leaves under very narrow conditions, when exposed...

Though I am not one to easily repair to medication or the doctor's office when sick, especially wary of highly synthesized and prepared ...

The reigning coalition in Germany has been compelled to make some difficult decisions and try to apply some sophistical cheer to an approach...

Being somewhat inured to out breaks of food poisoning, being much more common occurrences in the States, the wrath and general indignation t...