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Ah. And everything in the world was good.

Who says God doesn't answer prayer?

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Hmm. Maybe we are living in the end times.

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Save the Pygmies!

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I think this has more to say about the placebo effect than the effectiveness of the medications tested. Note that this study tested children over the span of one night. The placebo effect can last several days, but then it wanes. Effective medicines will always outlast the placebo.

Cough medicines 'have no benefit'

It's settled.

Splenda is not for me.

I didn't realize until five minutes ago (when I read the ingredients list) that it contains the same ingredient that Coke's C2 does.

Looks like I'll be donating this to the general office.

discovered via Slate

"This is not fun, Paul."

And I ask: what's wrong with depicting Bush eating the head off a baby? Isn't that what freedom of expression is all about?

politics & the office--just don't mix

So my boss is talking to our receptionist (who happens to be male) and strains of their conversation is wafting through the department. I hear:

"And he says that he believes that life begins at conception. Well, biologically, what else happens then?"

I say fairly audibly, "Now, see, that's something I think shouldn't be discussed in the office." But my boss's office is some cubes down, so he almost certainly didn't hear me (though my officemates did).

The receptionist: "Right."

My boss: "Now, he says life begins at conception, but he's for abortion."

I speak up quite loudly: "No, he's not 'for abortion,' he's for the right to choose. They're not necessarily the same thing."

Still don't think my boss heard me, though the rest of his conversation was difficult to discern.

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Edit: This topic has been taken up in this thread in philosophy.