My recent post on moderate drinking and breast cancer risk spurred a lot of comments.  So I thought you might also be interested in a new initiative from the National Institutes of Health called Rethinking Drinking. The goal is to help people assess the risks and/or benefits of their drinking h...

Found a funny site while reading VillageVoice: Bedpost. Look at the screenshot! "What time did you start?""How long did it last?""How was it?""And this was with whom?""Enter some descriptive tags." Laughing my ass off. And no, I did not sign up. :P...

Pharyngula linked to Bobbie Jean Pentecost's snarky "50 Reasons Why I Reject Evolution".  Her previous post was "100 Things You Probably Didn't Want to Know", reproduced here with answers replaced: How old will you be in five years?  I will be eligible for membership in AARP (which, despit...

It's just after midnight here and I'm wide awake. I made the mistake of watching LOST right before bed and my brain just has to process the whole thing for awhile. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the ...

According to Microsoft, you can now surf the audio podcast catalog in their Zune site and stream them directly without connecting to the Zune Marketplace, as well as waste your time doing music......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw A Violinist in the Metro A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousand o...

Because I’m an atheist I’m often accused of having no morals, which simply isn’t true. However it is true that my morals conflict with many of those handed out in the Bible, as the results of the following quiz reveal: Your morality is 0% in line with that of the bible.   Damn...

So there is this meme going around…maybe you’ve seen it?  Here are the rules: Think of 20 albums, CDs, LPs (if you’re over 40), that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life. Dug into your soul. Music that brought you to life when you heard it. Royally affected you, ki...

What a coincidence; I was just reading all about this in The God Delusion! Of course, I don’t think that this result should be any surprise even without that… Your morality is 0% in line with that of the bible.   Damn you heathen! Your book learnin’ has done warped your mind. ...

1. Did you date someone from your school? Yes, sophomore (2nd) year. 2. Did you marry someone from high school? No. 3. Did you carpool?Sophomore (2nd) and the first half of junior (3rd) year I regularly got rides to and from school from people who lived slightly further out than me.  ...