Sincere condolences to those who lost loved ones in London and elsewhere.

josiemonkey, don't worry. Unlike Ivan, Dennis only side-swiped Jamaica. Our family lost power and had some property damage--again--but no one was hurt this time. I wish I could say the same for Cuba and Haiti.

Happy birthday, psionicferal. :)
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From dinogrrl

What Sex Is Your Brain?

Apparently, I think like a male. This was a rather unexpected result. And, truthfully, a tad bit disturbing. Though I'm not really sure what, if anything, it implies.

Argh. The famous author from my high school has once again made us proud:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/12/13/odd.literature.sex.reut/index.html

American author and journalist Tom Wolfe won one of the world's most dreaded literary ( Read more... )

Violence in the Media ( Read more... )

I have all this stuff scattered around different forums (fora?). I'll start putting these articles here so that I can find them easily when I want them.

http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/commish/2004/wolpaw_release_12-06-2004.htm
( Read more... )

Am confused to see that pharmacists are above doctors. But we are above the clergy, and beat lawyers by a long shot, so ( Read more... )

The official UK site:
http://www.worldaidsday.org/

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/12/01/world.aids.day.ap/index.html
"Today the face of AIDS is increasingly young and female," said ( Read more... )

http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/39/22/25
Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and dèjá vu experiences have something in common-all involve the entorhinal cortex region of the brain. In fact, findings linking dèjá vu to the entorhinal cortex may ( Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/25/secondterm.abstinence.ap/index.html
President Bush's re-election ensures that more federal money will flow to abstinence education that precludes discussion of birth control, even as the ( Read more... )

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=281258Read more... )