It's like, nearly, a genre (via Martin Schwarz):
I once saw a talk where Bill Nye said "systematic directed genocide."
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Ben McGrath has an excellent article on "the NFL and the concussion crisis" in the January 31st issue of the New Yorker.
If you've been reading this blog for a while, you probably know that I'm fascinated by findings that show just how little we know about ourselves. Most of what's going on in our heads occurs below the level of awareness, and behind the often impenetrable barrier of the unconscious.
We get little earthquakes all the time in OK. This is my usual reaction:
I mentioned that cringe-inducing hemipenectomy that some spiders do…well, Stan Schwarz had to one-up me and sent a link to an
synthpop Sagan = Kermit the frog