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Monkeying with evolution
"My dear, let us hope that it isn't true!" the wife of the bishop of Worcester is reputed to have exclaimed 150 years ago, on hearing that human beings might be descended from apes. "But if it is true, let us hope that it doesn't become widely known!"...Tags: Medical Specialization, Galileo Galilei, Genetics, Racism, Sociology
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Why dirty is funny
When a federal appeals court judge who is presiding over an obscenity trial is himself revealed to have a "porn stash" on a personal website, as happened a couple of weeks ago, some might get indignant. Others might titter. But what if it turns out that...Tags: Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Immanuel Kant, Judges, Jim Holt
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'A Guitar and a Pen,' edited by Robert Hicks, John Bohlinger and Justin Stelter
A Guitar and a Pen
Stories by Country Music's Greatest Songwriters
Edited by Robert Hicks, John Bohlinger
and Justin Stelter
Center Street: 258 pp., $23.99
O irony of ironies.
Here I spend half my life trying to pass as a member of the...Tags: Hank Williams, Country Music, Vince Gill, Music Industry, Classical Music
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August 11, 1999
Dear Tom, Recently while vacationing in Canada, I believe weather reports gave the barometric pressure in “kilopascals.” It seemed strange because we figured millimeters (mm) of mercury would be used instead of the “inches of mercury” used with barometer...Tags: Disasters, National Hurricane Center, St. Charles, Weather Reports, Natural Disasters
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Apr 30, 2002
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