crosses

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Springing up more and more along the highways in British Columbia are memorials to people who have died in collisions. It used to be just an annoyance to me but now they are so common that they have become a blight on the scenery. Is there anything more pathetic than a little Teddy Bear zap...

I have a question. I'm sure we have all seen those white crosses with plastic flowers along the roadside, where presumably someone died in an accident. No doubt they have meaning to someone, but I am curious about WHO it is that places these and what tradition it is. I have seen them in South...

I was talking to some friends the other night. We're all around 30, and interested in science and philosophy. We started to speculate whether we could make it under the bar, in terms of science being able to keep us alive for a very long time. I think there will come a point when science can...