Author: mike

The results of this mega-experiment indicate that [Aspartame/Nutrasweet] is a multipotential carcinogenic agent, even at a daily dose of 20 mg/kg [bodyweight], much less than the current acceptable daily intake … the time span...

Ah poor Harrison Ford, how far have you fallen from Solo and Jones… 1997, Air Force One. “Get off my PLANE!” 2006, Firewall. “Get off my SERVER!”

One thing that has always bothered me about the extreme replacement hypothesis of the “Out of Africa” essentialists is that the idea that thousands of humans (or pre-humans) emerging from their African homes would...

I finally discovered why it is that as I grow older I have increasingly hairy ears: the locus for the hair earlobe gene is carried only on the Y portion of the 23rd chromosome....

More Bush-Bono lovefest here.

Why is there a greater tendency for Europeans to wear more revealing “Speedos” while USians tend to wear less revealing swimming trunks? As with many aggressively expansionist cultures throughout history, the US is permeated...

GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS INDEX RANKINGS 2006 (2005) 1: Switzerland (4) 2: Finland: (2) 3: Sweden (7) 4: Denmark (3) 5: Singapore (5) 6: United States (1) 7: Japan (10) 8: Germany (6) 9: Netherlands (11)...

We got back from our South American trek. Quite illuminating. It’s the furthest south I’ve been on the earth and it was cool to see the moon “upside down”, with the dark “seas” flipped...

Went to Machu Picchu – it is as extraordinary as I had imagined. Missed our Amazonian jungle connection – me and Lisa got a dose of some nasty parasites. Next stop – Buenos Aires.

Unless the assassination target is prominent, or the number of victims rises to at least the high single digits, such events barely rate a mention in Western news reports. Yet the most reliable estimates...