A lot of people talk about media bias — the idea that most reporters lean left, as if they suffer from political scoliosis. I have an alternative — some might say brilliant — theory: the mainstream media is biased, but it doesn’t lean left. It leans toward any idea that …
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Doing It—or Not (Lack of Libido and Other Sexual Problems)
One reason—if not the main reason—we diet and exercise is that we want to look good to the opposite sex (or maybe the same sex). And, of course, one reason—if not the main reason—we want to do that is to be attractive to our (real or imagined) sexual partner. Now, …
Read More »Nutrition: Eating Your Way to Good or Bad Health
I think Americans generally pay more attention to the gasoline they put in their cars than to the food they put in their mouths. We are a society of excess, and one of our more impressive excesses is the way in which we eat and what we choose to put …
Read More »'Flying Saucers' in Orbit Around Saturn Explained
The formation of strange flying-saucer-shaped moons embedded in Saturn’s rings have baffled scientists. New findings suggest they’re born largely from clumps of icy particles in the rings themselves, an insight that could shed light on how Earth and other planets coalesced from the disk of matter that once surrounded our …
Read More »Blogs Are Overrated
So Iranian President Ahmadinejad has a new blog and it works in that “senile grandma in the attic” sort of way. But other than realizing how much it sounds like Olbermann, it dawned on me that when the elderly, squirrels and crazed dictators start blogging, then blogging is dead. The …
Read More »'Harry Potter' Is Running Out of Magic
‘Harry Potter’ | The Police | Warner Music Group | Madonna Harry Potter’ Is Running Out of Magic I don’t read the books, so I can’t tell you if the fifth installment of the series, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” is true to the book from which …
Read More »Hope for Water on Mars Dims with Sharp New Images
New images obtained by a sharp-eyed Martian satellite reveal that some Red Planet features once thought to have been carved by flowing water were in fact created by other processes. The images were taken during the first 100 days of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission and are detailed in …
Read More »GRRR! Britney Should Disappear to the Suburbs
Britney Spears | High School Nude-ical | Birkhead’s Birthday Bash | Dumbest Man in America | Your GRRRs | Get the GRRR! Book So much to GRRR, so little time… Britney Flops Britney Spears’ much-hyped “comeback” performance at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday will go down in history …
Read More »Dr. Manny: Your Questions About Stroke Answered, Part II
We have received many questions and comments about the aftermath of a stroke. As we continue searching for answers to many of these questions, I reached out to Dr Emilio Oribe, director of neurology at the New York Hospital in Queens, and clinical assistant professor of neurology at the Weill-Cornell …
Read More »Politicizing the War on Terror
The anti-Bush crowd is furious with last week’s terror arrests in London because it might help Bush administration and the Republicans in the critical upcoming November election. The left is putting forth that the president is trying to scare people and that his policies have increased the danger from the …
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