Blame It On Love

Abstinence-Only Education Ruined By Trip To Zoo (no replies)

eeek — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:50:41 -0700

http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/abstinence_only_education_0

Obama Favors Plug-in Hybrids over Hydrogen Vehicles (no replies)

eeek — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:06:52 -0700

When President George W. Bush was in the White House, he hyped hydrogen as the future of the automobile industry. But with President Obama now on the job, the next major step for the nation's cars and trucks comes with a plug.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hybrid-cars-plug-in-obama-stimulus-money

CSU to stop accepting applications for spring 2010 (no replies)

eeek — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:03:49 -0700

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- California State University says it will stop accepting nearly all student applications for the spring 2010 term to help offset deep budget cuts to the 23-campus system.

http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/2014307.html?mi_rss=Latest%20News

Attractive Males Release Fewer Sperm (no replies)

eeek — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:42:52 -0700

ScienceDaily (July 10, 2009) — Attractive males release fewer sperm per mating to maximise their chances of producing offspring across a range of females, according to a new paper on the evolution of ejaculation strategies. The findings by researchers at UCL (University College London) and the University of Oxford suggest that, paradoxically, matings with attractive males may be less fertile than those with unattractive ones.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709095425.htm

Tremors On Southern San Andreas Fault May Mean Increased Earthquake Risk (no replies)

eeek — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:22:30 -0700

ScienceDaily (July 9, 2009) — Increases in mysterious underground tremors observed in several active earthquake fault zones around the world could signal a build-up of stress at locked segments of the faults and presumably an increased likelihood of a major quake, according to a new University of California, Berkeley, study.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709140817.htm

Granola and Masturbation (no replies)

eeek — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:20:19 -0700

You can’t live in Michigan long without running into a building, or project, or something that is named after W.K. Kellogg, founder of the Kellogg cereal company and major philanthropist. It’s his brother, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, who is really the interesting one, though.

http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=8085

Social Security Numbers Can Be Predicted With Public Information (no replies)

eeek — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:26:48 -0700

ScienceDaily (July 7, 2009) — Carnegie Mellon University researchers have shown that public information readily gleaned from governmental sources, commercial data bases, or online social networks can be used to routinely predict most — and sometimes all — of an individual's nine-digit Social Security number.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090706171509.htm

True perfect love (no replies)

eeek — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:32:03 -0700

DOJ Investigating Telecoms For Possible Antitrust Behavior (no replies)

eeek — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:24:38 -0700

The U.S. Department of Justice is in the preliminary phase of looking at whether large U.S. telecom companies have abused their market power by locking up exclusive agreements with popular smartphone manufacturers, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

http://www.crn.com/networking/218400596;jsessionid=UIUVE0CNOOXZEQSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN

Michael Jackson A 'Pervert,' 'Pedophile': Congressman (no replies)

eeek — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:21:52 -0700

Ever heard this done on the banjo before? (1 reply)

eeek — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:52:27 -0700

Who's Smiling and Who's Frowning About the Palin News (no replies)

eeek — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:01:19 -0700

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's decision to resign at the end of this month is one of the most surprising, perplexing and just plain fascinating moves from a national politician in recent memory. As such, it produces any number of consequences -- intended and otherwise -- in the political world. (Like it or not, Palin is a prime mover on the national scene; she acts and others react.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/05/AR2009070502753.html

Tujunga Fire (no replies)

eeek — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:50:51 -0700

Tujunga Fire will remain at 85% overnight. 90 Forest Service firefighters are working by moonlight to finish the job.

http://www.inciweb.org/incident/1715/

Commitment (no replies)

eeek — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:03:55 -0700

Do your homework!!! (no replies)

eeek — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:10:27 -0700

Ghost hunting can be a real pain in the ass… (no replies)

eeek — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:21:18 -0700

Have you ever wondered when you should resume sex safely after ghost hunting? How can you exorcise a ghost that has possessed your womb? Or how can you remove a ghost from your rectum? (After you’ve finished with it, presumably.)

http://skepbitch.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/ghost-hunting-can-be-a-real-pain-in-the-ass/

Naked Skepticism (no replies)

eeek — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:19:53 -0700

No, I’m not talking about our Skepchick calendar, although we will be hearing more about that soon.

http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=8010

Corrosive, stinking Chinese drywall may be radioactive (1 reply)

eeek — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:50:04 -0700

Health concerns are raised over the imported wallboard. Some drywall made with radioactive phosphogypsum, a waste byproduct, was shipped to the U.S. by at least four Chinese-based firms.

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fi-drywall4-2009jul04,0,2029189.story?track=rss

Report: Double Stuf Oreos Could Raise Tolerance To Stuf (no replies)

eeek — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:13:34 -0700

EAST HANOVER, NJ—A new report released by the Food and Drug Administration Monday suggests that regular consumption of Oreo's Double Stuf cookies could lead to an increased tolerance to stuf.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/report_double_stuf_oreos

Palin: Really Retreating Or Just Reloading? (no replies)

eeek — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:25:15 -0700

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has won millions of admirers with her gift for direct, personal communication. Her appeal combines an earnest and urgent seriousness with a bright and winning air of spontaneity. And the governor was working each of these elements extra hard at her hastily arranged news conference Friday.

She needed to, because she had a difficult message to deliver and an even more difficult rationale to sell.

http://www.npr.org/watchingwashington/2009/07/palin_really_retreating_or_jus_1.html?ft=1&f=15724598

happy 4th of July!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :roll: (6 replies)

decline to state — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:11:53 -0700

Alzheimer's Symptoms Reversed: Blood Stem Cell Growth Factor Reverses Memory Decline In Mice (no replies)

eeek — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:57:04 -0700

ScienceDaily (July 2, 2009) — A human growth factor that stimulates blood stem cells to proliferate in the bone marrow reverses memory impairment in mice genetically altered to develop Alzheimer's disease, researchers at the University of South Florida and James A. Haley Hospital found.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090701160557.htm

The Problem With Self-help Books: The Negative Side To Positive Self-statements (2 replies)

eeek — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:48:15 -0700

ScienceDaily (July 3, 2009) — In times of doubt and uncertainty, many Americans turn to self-help books in search of encouragement, guidance and self-affirmation. The positive self-statements suggested in these books, such as "I am a lovable person" or "I will succeed," are designed to lift a person's low self-esteem and push them into positive action.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090702110503.htm

Ruth Madoff Evicted From Penthouse By Federal Marshals (no replies)

eeek — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:30:49 -0700

Ruth Madoff, wife of federally convicted Ponzi scammer Bernard Madoff, was officially evicted from her $7 million Upper East Side Manhattan Penthouse apartment today by U.S. Marshals, part of the agreement she made with federal officials in her effort to not be stripped of all the assets she shared with her husband.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/07/ruth_madoff_evicted_from_penth.html?ft=1&f=103943429

sunken ships (no replies)

eeek — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:40:07 -0700

An underwater archeologist named Tex,
found sunken ships made him think about sex;
for some reason or another
they reminded him of his mother,
so he called them his Oedipus wrecks...

Michael Jackson Dead at 12 (1 reply)

Bob — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:31:00 -0700

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/king_of_pop_dead_at_12

No One In Women's Shelter Able To Cook Decent Meal (2 replies)

eeek — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:36:28 -0700

CLEVELAND—Despite having no other household responsibilities to occupy their time, none of the residents of the Cleveland YWCA Battered Women's Shelter can prepare a decent hot meal by 6 p.m., sources at the shelter reported Tuesday.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/no_one_in_womens_shelter

Be Happy (1 reply)

eeek — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:01:04 -0700

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
-The Dalai Lama

New alarm clock (no replies)

eeek — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:52:11 -0700

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/world-s-biggest-alarm-clock-shakes-you-out-of-bed-is-computer-controlled

Shuttle Cake Goes Wrong (no replies)

eeek — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:22:34 -0700

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-ones-for-ladies.html