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Entertainment/culture Humor Music Religion

They sold their souls for rock and roll

It’s been a long time since I saw something like this. I remember back in the 1980’s, I saw an utterly hysterically funny series on a religious cable outlet about the evils of rock ‘n’ roll, complete with dire warnings about how rock ‘n’ roll was a one-way ticket straight to hell. Well, it turns […]

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Medicine

Chimps Sharpen, Use Spears to Hunt

In February of this year Jill Pruetz, an anthropologist with Iowa State University, witnessed Kenyan chimpanzees break off branches from trees, sharpen them using their teeth, and then use these spears to hunt lesser bush babies, a kind of small primate. The bush babies sleep in the hollows of trees, and the chimps were repeatedly […]

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Medicine Politics Surgery

NJ Governor Jon Corzine: The consequences of not wearing seatbelts

Having done a lot of trauma coverage in my time (although the last time I covered trauma call was nearly eight years ago), I have to admit that, when I first heard of the motor vehicle collision (I never call such crashes “accidents” because they rarely are) in which New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine was […]

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EneMan Humor Medicine

He’s here, he’s there, he’s everywhere

…and how! Who knew our intrepid mascot liked hockey so much? I wonder if he’s Canadian. Maybe so.

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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: The pit and the pendulum, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Kreskin

Believe it or not, it’s been almost nine months since, almost on a whim, I first started this little indulgence of mine known as Your Friday Dose of Woo, with some truly fine woo known as quantum homeopathy. Before you know it, we’ll be celebrating a full year of woo. (Yes, I know that woo […]