I found myself wondering the other day if the MBTA (the local mass transit authority) had a policy about the minimum age of unaccompanied minors, the way inter-city transit companies do. I can't find anything explicit on their website, but their fare structure is: up to two children 11 and under ride free with an adult; discounted passes for ( Read more... )

Exposure to cellphone radiation protected mice doomed to Alzheimer's from memory loss -- and reversed memory loss in those that had already started down the path of dementia.

As most of you know, if A and B are correlated, there are basically three possible explanations: A causes B; B causes A; or C causes both A and B. Researchers in Norway ( Read more... )

My favourite yoga studio (Black Lotus) is hosting an infant massage workshop over four Thursday afternoons, starting in January.

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Starting off with three from The Homosexual Agenda:

Uganda's proposed law to jail gay people for life is expected to cause strife at a Commonwealth summit. It would also jail people for three years who know of a gay or lesbian person and who don't inform the police within 24 hours, jail those for seven years who defend gay rights, and put to ( Read more... )

Cute news of the day: Police car hood-cam captures cat climbing officer while he issues a ticket. He valiantly tries to carry on with his duties as the cat climbs up his leg and chest.

The award for Best Name In The News Today goes to: Senator Xenophon of Australia calls for a parliamentary inquiry into Church of Scientology, calling it a ( Read more... )

I don't usually pass along the gruesomely upsetting stories, for no reasons that I can clearly articulate. But this one came with a request to spread the under-reported news. From desiringsubject and veek: Gay Puerto Rican man brutally murdered (warning: strong violence triggers).

To counter that with some good news: Argentina grants same-sex couple a marriage ( Read more... )

I am annoyed that the BBC's "World" response to swine flu crisis article doesn't include Africa.

US to lift the ban on HIV+ people entering the country.

An interesting review of a biography of Ayn Rand.

An American survey shows that parents would rather talk to their kids about sex and drugs than math and scienceFollow-up to something I posted ( Read more... )

And you thought Ralph Lauren's ads were bad...French Vogue does a feature spread with a white model painted to look like a black woman (oh, and then they paint her white over the black, for extra WTF points). See all the photos and more commentary here. My first thought was that they couldn't get a black model to agree to wear outfits that ( Read more... )

From desiringsubject: Transgendered people in New York state will no longer need a medical reference in order to legally change their names.

Another look at medical co-ops and alternatives to fee-for-service payment from Time magazine.

One of the participants who survived the deadly sweat lodge run by James Arthur Ray on October 8 has stepped forward to tell ( Read more... )

British web site to provide CCTV feeds to public, pay £1000 for spotting crimes. Doubleplusungood!

At the request of lightcastle: For those of you who have lost track (or never had track) of the different US health care legislative proposals, here's a comparison.

Researchers to use 18th-century captains' log books to analyze climate changes. As a side ( Read more... )