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Nov 23, 2009
Belle de Jour: Freakonomics interview
Nov 23, 2009
Evil in Russia prospers
Nov 21, 2009
Values across the world
Nov 20, 2009
Israel should move to West Australia
Nov 15, 2009
Venn's diagram of 4 famous characters
Nov 12, 2009
The subconscious: The tail that wags the dog
Nov 12, 2009
Catholic water fonts
Nov 10, 2009
Rejection massively reduces IQ
Nov 8, 2009
The consequences of early life stress
Nov 6, 2009
Give organ donors free health care!
Nov 4, 2009
Education as demonstration of willingness to suffer
Oct 24, 2009
The countability of real numbers
Oct 19, 2009
Somali pirates, Italian mafia, and radioactive waste
Oct 15, 2009
Gay rights worldwide
Oct 11, 2009
Jaw bone created from stem cells
Oct 8, 2009
Religious zealotry vs. child molestation
Oct 8, 2009
Progress in tiny nuclear batteries
Oct 3, 2009
Half the human population is evil
Sep 25, 2009
Poland silences paedophilia dissent
Sep 13, 2009
Free accomodation in Frigate Bay, St. Kitts
Aug 14, 2009
UK imposes direct rule over Turks & Caicos
Aug 12, 2009
Empathy out of control
Aug 6, 2009
Tales of the Caribbean, #1
Aug 3, 2009
Outlawing lying and deception
Jul 30, 2009
Standards of beauty
Jul 24, 2009
The Onion, now run by the Chinese
Jul 3, 2009
How well do you know the Bible?
Jun 23, 2009
Occam's Razor
Jun 22, 2009
Can't hear you, honey
Jun 22, 2009
Miami's tent city for sex offenders
Jun 21, 2009
The right to arm bears #2
Jun 20, 2009
The right to arm bears #1
Jun 20, 2009
Biosphere 2
Jun 19, 2009
A lover's plight
Jun 16, 2009
xkcd
Jun 15, 2009
Windows Installer sucks
Jun 15, 2009
Poking fun at religion
Jun 15, 2009
Seasteading
Jun 14, 2009
Wal-Mart's Weight Effect
Jun 12, 2009
Traditional morality and sex health research
Jun 9, 2009
Boneheads in charge of H1B legislation
Jun 7, 2009
Slovenians no longer need visas to St. Kitts
May 17, 2009
Way to go, South Point
Apr 30, 2009
Women not finding partners
Apr 30, 2009
Never forget!
Apr 29, 2009
Egypt slaughters all pigs to avoid swine flu
Apr 28, 2009
Obama to radically increase science funding
Apr 27, 2009
Svalbard
Apr 25, 2009
French wine militants attack
Apr 25, 2009
It's not my arm!
Apr 25, 2009
One value set to rule them all
Apr 22, 2009
Stardock leaks customers' emails to spam
Apr 22, 2009
Why hearsay is not to be trusted
Apr 22, 2009
How things work out if government doesn't get in the way
Apr 19, 2009
Amazon EC2
Apr 18, 2009
Never, ever use Cooplabs
Apr 17, 2009
Gospodarska okorelost
Apr 16, 2009
French fishermen blockade channel crossings
Apr 16, 2009
Zipcar
Apr 14, 2009
The Voodoo Sciences
Apr 13, 2009
Good job, Navy snipers
Apr 8, 2009
The most dangerous person in the world
Apr 8, 2009
North Korea travelogue
Apr 6, 2009
Egypt jails swinging couple
Apr 6, 2009
Unworthy of lasers
Apr 6, 2009
Another African economist calls to stop "aid"
Apr 4, 2009
Universal Basic Income
Apr 2, 2009
Glimpses of rarely observed reality
Mar 31, 2009
Meat
Mar 28, 2009
Tito Street
Mar 26, 2009
Pare down the law
Mar 26, 2009
China proposes global reserve currency
Mar 25, 2009
CPU-based backdoors
Mar 25, 2009
Screening parents for genetic disorders
Mar 25, 2009
The gospel according to Futurama
Mar 24, 2009
The Holy Grail: Native Client
Mar 21, 2009
Things North America has that Slovenia doesn't
Mar 21, 2009
The French
Mar 21, 2009
A game that cannot be played with integrity
Mar 16, 2009
The 5 Moral Mechanisms of Jonathan Haidt
Mar 14, 2009
Too big to exist #3
Mar 13, 2009
The Madoff victims
Mar 13, 2009
A culture of entitlement
Mar 10, 2009
Daniel Hamermesh for higher income taxation
Feb 24, 2009
TLS/SSL usability
Feb 23, 2009
The U.S. should probably nationalize banks
Feb 13, 2009
The Fun-Fun Ultra Super Happy People
Feb 9, 2009
The doghouse: Costa Cruises
Feb 8, 2009
Madame Prosecutor
Feb 3, 2009
The cause of the crisis
Jan 28, 2009
Stimulus
Jan 27, 2009
Murderer
Jan 19, 2009
Teenage "child pornographers" charged for pictures of themselves
Jan 19, 2009
Patents retard progress
Jan 17, 2009
They don't just kill rhinos
Jan 17, 2009
EU idiocy about Microsoft continues
Jan 16, 2009
The doghouse: Whole Foods fires employee for stopping shoplifter
Jan 16, 2009
Ukraine should prepare against a Russian invasion
Jan 14, 2009
The doghouse: FedEx Office, internet obstructions in hotels
Jan 10, 2009
Middle ages, here we come!
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