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62% of Republicans say that the federal government should stay out of Medicare! – Yes, the vast majority of Republicans actually believe that the federal government should stay out of Medicare, a federal government-run health care system. The Stupid. It Burns.

The connection between Parkinson's and pesticides.

Book cover designs that got killed.

Enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer.

I'd love to try some of these.

For the better understanding of "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

“The Republican leadership,” Mr. Emanuel said, “has made a strategic decision that defeating President Obama’s health care proposal is more important for their political goals than solving the health insurance problems that Americans face every day.” — good. Glad they're finally giving up on bastards who had no intention of supporting them anyway.

Preventative measures are important. Since stress causes almost all muscle problems, including blepharospasm, to worsen, it is important to minimize and avoid stress. Whether this means embarking upon stress management through cognitive therapy, occupational therapy, or other types of group therapy or support meetings, these methods of improving and developing coping mechanisms should be explored.

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment – Their most significant finding is that climate change means the gas is being released from more and deeper areas of the Arctic ocean.
Professor Minshull said: "Our survey was designed to work out how much methane might be released by future ocean warming; we did not expect to discover such strong evidence that this process has already started."

Nothing beats a good venn diagram.

A postcard magazine. Cool concept.

And we're letting them get away with this shit.

While his choices on the environment have been pretty good, he has catered to Wall Street at every turn, and Wall Street has responded by going back to business as usual as quickly as possible, clearly unintimidated by their friends Summers and Geithner. Our tax dollars have disappeared into the maw of fat bankers' salaries and rising equity while we, the taxpayers are still stuck with high principal, tight loans, high fees, and skittish lenders. Yup, Naomi Klein was right — a crisis is just another way for the financial class to soak the poor.

But only for guys, according to the article. Women are still not allowed to be overweight. THIS IS BULLSHIT.

"The tree of crazy is an ever-present aspect of America's flora. Only now, it's being watered by misguided he-said-she-said reporting and taking over the forest. Latest word is that the enlightened and mild provision in the draft legislation to help elderly people who want living wills — the one hysterics turned into the "death panel" canard — is losing favor, according to the Wall Street Journal, because of "complaints over the provision." Good thing our leaders weren't so cowardly in 1964, or we would never have passed a civil rights bill — because of complaints over the provisions in it that would enslave whites."

Interviewing artists about their favorite artistic tools. Very cool magazine/blog.

(AKA Pharmaceutical Interns). A) Portrait of iconic liberal antagonist. B) freakish pop-culture facial affectation. C) Name of a nasty political system you googled.

And the police actually arrested him – for walking around in the rain. In someone's neighborhood. Because that's suspicious. God forbid we walk around the neighborhood in the rain. Stupid

"Why do you have to take this stuff so personally? ask the intellectual, clever, and engaged men, who have never considered that the content of the abstract exercise that's so much fun for them is the stuff of my life." – another profoundly moving piece of writing from Melissa McEwan. I can't begin to thank her for the way she has changed the way I see the world I live in.

This opposition cannot be appeased. Some pundits claim that Mr. Obama has polarized the country by following too liberal an agenda. But the truth is that the attacks on the president have no relationship to anything he is actually doing or proposing.

The stubborn yet false rumor that President Obama’s health care proposals would create government-sponsored “death panels” to decide which patients were worthy of living seemed to arise from nowhere in recent weeks.

Straight from the President – Get the facts about the stability and security you get from health insurance reform.

Bad headline for an interesting study.

Challenge vs. skill, showing "flow" region.

Great talk about overcoming creative barriers and getting stuff accomplished.