Posts tagged as It's Science!
Why Do Our Elected Officials Love Cancer?
Do you want to care about something boring and dull but important? Sure you do! While the budget is being hammered out for our fine country's 2011 fiscal year, so far the House has suggested they'd be happy cutting $1.6 billion from the National Institutes of Health. What's that you say? We pay money from our taxes to go to health research? How disgusting! But it turns out that when legislators actually know what the NIH does, they want to give it more money, not less. Also? Unlike much of the government, the NIH makes money [PDF] for America. Through science! While they are, you know, curing diseases and stuff. But whatever. Cut that budget down!
I Can't Believe They Want to Mine the Moon
In the great story of the privatization of all Americans services industries, we tend to pay more attention to things like health care and prisons. But a bit more than a year ago, the administration began budgeting to privatize space flight: "Obama’s plan calls for funneling money to private companies that are jockeying for NASA contracts," is how that was described. And now here they are, getting their cash: six companies have gotten $30 million each, including new startup "Moon Express," which apparently wants to help people go mine the moon. They basically think they can go dig platinum out of the moon, and I feel like I have already seen this dystopia. I know that many of us have some really negative feelings about the moon but I'm pretty sure we'll miss it (and/or "tides") when it's gone.
Performing Oral Sex in America: By the Numbers
Crunching the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior numbers: "Looking at those men between the ages of 20 and 60 who 'gave oral to male' we find: 4.4% – during the past month, 6.3% – during the past year, 10.3% – during lifetime." Other notable bits include that 12% of women aged 14 and 15 reported performing oral sex on boys in the last year.
"Pepsigeddon" Crisis Abruptly Ends at ScienceBlogs
This morning, the CEO of ScienceBlogs announced the termination of a their Pepsi advertorial blog, to be written by the fine scientists at Pepsi, after a huge freakout and the defection of some bloggers. Some there think the outrage was hypocritical!
But ASDljkdfasdf; COULD Make Other Volcanoes Happen, Says Someone
EVEN THOUGH other volcanoes besides Iceland's Asdlfjasdfasdf; aren't blowing up, it doesn't mean they couldn't, report scientists, newspapers hungry for filler.
How The Borg Gave Us Health Care Reform
And now you know how Seven of Nine gave us health care reform.
But Alaska Is Rife with Liquid Black Bounty!
The same kind of scientists "frauds" who talk about "climate change" are also claiming that we are "running out of oil." Sarah Palin is going to be pissed. Just insert scare quotes throughout: The scientist and researchers from Oxford University claimed official figures are inflated because Opec member countries over-reported reserves in the 1980s when competing for global market share. The new research, released today, said estimates of conventional reserves should be downgraded from 1.15 trillion barrels to 1.35 trillion barrels to between 850 billion and 900 billion barrels, adding that demand may outstrip supply as early as 2014." And what's more? Shia LaBeouf agrees that now is the time to go big in the market on oil! (Previously; previously; via.)
It Used To Be That 1/3rd of "Best" New Magazines Failed in the First Five Years...
A study of 224 publications that were launched between 1986 and 2006 and honored as a best new publication by the Library Journal found that: "34 percent of these newly launched 'best' magazines failed within the first five years, with 13 failing within their first year alone. And while another 37 percent of these magazines are still being published, Black notes that this number is skewed because it includes some launched as recently as 2006." (Other studies show a "90 percent overall failure rate of magazines launched between 1985 and 2002.") But now? Or at least, between 1994 to 2003? 54 percent failed in the first five years. The good news is that they don't really make new magazines anymore, I think.
ER Doctors Want To Steal Our Organs!
When you die in the ER, if you are an organ donor, your organs are not harvested! But now an emergency room-based project, funded by the organ-craving socialists at the Department of Health and Human Services, promises to steal away your organs before you are even brain dead, so as to save other people who need your kidneys and things. There are "questions"! From "some" who think ER doctors "might not do everything possible to save patients and may even hasten their deaths, to increase the chance of obtaining organs." Yes. That's how ER doctors are. Just ready to kill you for your eyeballs. Also? "Experts" are concerned that when people check "yes," instead of "no," on their driver's licenses, in response to the question "would you like to be an organ donor," maybe they are not understanding what that means? Some "experts" think that maybe some people think "organs" and "donor" are confusing? And they are just checking "YES TAKE MY ORGANS" willy-nilly? And so the world's stupidest debate rages on, expressed in the world's stupidest piece of Washington Post newspaper writing.
