I knew the "vaccines cause autism" hypothesis has been pretty firmly disproved, but until now I didn't know that Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the doctor behind it all, had absolutely colossal undeclared conflicts of interest, was already making piles of money from trial lawyers for suggesting that the vaccines were dangerous, and would have made many ( Read more... )

Does anyone have a video of all the cutscenes from the 2010-05-21 Google Pac Man game? A playthrough showing all 256 levels would also work, perhaps uploaded to YouTube in 20-minute chunks.

13-year-old American climbs Everest, pulls out a satphone, calls his mom.

Notes on Google's double standard for dating sites pairing older men with younger women, and dating sites pairing older women with younger men.

The web and cultural shifts away from institutional loyalty, and the increasingly evident dysfunction caused by corporate control of Washington, are probably going to make overthrowing incumbents easier as a permanent shift, not just in the 2010 election. So as usual, the prediction for the future is "things will get weirder"; expect more weird ( Read more... )

Fascinating article on the history of the Euro

Interesting statistical analysis of the US voter generation gap over immigration; the article does however take pains not to discuss changes to the US labor market in the past few decades, except in very indirect and anecdotal ways.

ADHD in kids tied to organophosphate pesticides

( on avoiding politics in a paper on animal testing )

Meet Raj Patel, a 33 year old British leftist economist who has unexpectedly been declared the messiah by a Scotland-based cult.