CollegeTransitionFilter: Help a sad little CS student deal with figuring out where to live, what he can expect in this economy, and how to deal with an unexpected surprise for his besieged parents. I'm an undergrad senior going to a relatively prestigious research college in the rust belt. I transfe...

Ponca City, We love you writes "The number of labor with asthma has been rising for many years. About 1 in 10 parturition in the UK develop asthma, compared with about 1 in 25 in the 1960s. The reason for this isn't clear, use 'although' several grand unified theory have been put forward such as kee...

Natural Law (Continued from Part I) Critics of the Bible often point to ancient history as a method of discrediting the authenticity of the Bible. Specifically they claim ancient history refutes the notion that the Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God. Whereas Christians and Jews might point t...

First in our report is Senator David Vitter (R-Diaper), who was late to his flight at Dulles International the other day. He threw down a big old “Don’t you know who I am” tantrum when he was late for his flight the other day. According to RawStory in a story from Roll Call, Vitter...

Survey work is fun.  Sitting alone in our offices we come up with complicated theories and wishfully testable hypotheses and then roam into the real world to collect data from the public who quite often, well, don't give a crap.  Take, for example, a new survey I'm currentl...

That’s the only conclusion I can draw from their editorial/article (hard to say which it’s supposed to be), Science prevails. The era of stem cells has officially begun. Why it’s now “official” I don’t understand. They admit that funding was available for “a...

Gawd, Politico is full of crap: He called for reducing abortions and seeking common ground on one of the nation’s most divisive issues — promises that led some on the right to think maybe, just maybe, Barack Obama was a different kind of Democrat. But no more. A series of decisions in th...

We’ve bashed the Corporate Research Associates polling around in these parts for quite some time.  Since since it’s the only game in town, however, it’s what we have to work with. Here are some quickie observations on the most recent poll: 1.  The margin of error for the most recent ...

Of Obama's decision to reverse Bush's ban on federal funding for stem cell research, Yuval Levin has this to say: ...legitimate dispute underlies the stem cell debate. But that is not the ground on which the president made his case yesterday. He argued that to deny free rein to stem cell science is ...

Self-identified rational people take pride in the fact that they can't be easily manipulated, but of course that's the pride part of their dumb monkey brains talking. Here's an interesting study that measured whether hard-to-pronounce words were perceived as riskier than words that were easier to pr...