I try to live my life by the lessons I learn from movies. To wit, Buckaroo Banzai taught me, “Don’t be mean. We don’t have to mean. ‘Cause, remember: no matter where you go… there you are.”
But I found myself in the check-out line at the grocery store and I saw this… and, well–come on! [...]

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I think I’ll celebrate by getting seasick and looking at birds.

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From the Freakonomics Blog article: “When I tell people about my parents, they never believe me. But the truth is, my father really is the world’s foremost medical expert on intestinal gas, and my mom really is a psychic.”
Among her predictions: “A thousand years from now, she sees world government and round [...]

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In response to the Lancet’s retraction of the 1998 study, Slate recently republished a 2007 article by Arthur Allen (author of Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver).
Try not to get depressed as you read about “why scientists are unlikely to convince the parents of autistic children that vaccines are not to blame.”

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Click the title; I have no further comment.

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