Including posts about technical gadgetry, discoveries, studies, evolution, climate, environment, and other neat, science-y type stuff.
The mindset difference between pirates and non-pirates is fairly wide, as is, frequently, the age and economic difference. The fact that there seems to be a personal taste difference, too, is pretty interesting. It makes me want to think we're dealing with a behavior that's set right into the brain chemistry, something like the differences found in the brains of liberals and conservatives. And then I'd want to know if the political differences are related, too.
XOJane is an online woman's magazine started by the same woman who used to be in charge of Sassy. Women's magazines run toward the insipid and insulting to begin with, so I don't really read them. I stumbled over this kerfluffle via Skepchick's article, XOJane's Cat Marnell: Performance Art or Gross Idiocy?
This week: the Doctor Who series six premiere, Elisabeth Sladen died, cool brain physiology differences between "liberals" and "conservatives," more news about Chrome OS and the CR-48, and the University of Michigan broke physics while we weren't looking.
Warning: we've already seen the Doctor Who premiere, and there are very teeny spoilers, for anyone who might be worried.
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