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Palestinian militants have taken an IDF soldier hostage, demanding hundreds of Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for the one IDF soldier. Hmm.

From the Wall Street Journal: CHICAGO—Last September, Bruce Lahn, a professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, stood before a packed lecture hall and reported the results of a new DNA analysis: He had found signs of recent evolution in the brains of some people, but not of...

Hey! open thread. Feel free to use the rant function. Foxnews is playing this for all its worth. Good? Bad? I'm thinking good. Fox is by far the least biased (though bias exists) Good for the nation? I'm thinking good. Snow has talent (and seems to be up to the job) I'm betting most...

Ok, I live in Missouri in the US and there is a town in Missouri thats somewhat famous for "floating lights" for which I have never really heard a good explanation. So, my question is for you guys to put your heads together and convince me that their nothing special so I don't waist a tank of...

Seems a tad immoral to me.

Seems that way. Cut through a dandelion with a lawnmower once. What happens? Tear out a dandelion at ground level. What happens? Knock a persons teeth out after their second set of teeth are in. What happens? Arms come off in a farm accident. What happens? I state my case. Now the elusive...

Apple has finally started selling a 2 button mouse, with a scroll pad and forward-back buttons. I guess this is a good step forward, but it comes with a price, $49, and it only fully works with tiger. I think I will stick with my trackball

I read on the Vietnam thread the following comment. There does seem to be a wider group of individuals who seem to ascribe to this view. I was interested in probing this more explicitly. Do people here believe there is anything worth fighting for?

http://www.macmillanscience.com/1403945004.htm By the way, Badly Shaved Monkey has no financial interest in this publication!

HNY We here at Australian Skeptics have given our web site the big make over. New look and new features. You can now download selected articles from 'the Skeptic' mag. http://www.skeptics.com.au/journal/23_2003.htm

http://www.space.com/news/aps_report_041123.html It sounds to me as if M2M&B is actually hurting some very promising missions. I would definitely like to see the long term budgeting for this. IMHO other projects seem much more important than getting back to the moon or going to Mars, as far...

Straying away from my usual topic here. I need to explore why we seek love outside of ourselves and whether that exploration is beneficial to the soul. Some plonkers will say "Define love.". My response would be that anybody who has had good parents; kids; decent siblings; a long and meaningful...

All the figures suggest that crime has risen substantially over the last 80 years in the UK. It is difficult to judge how much, since figures are reported differently and it's not clear that as much as 50% of all crimes were reported in the past, as they are today. But it does seem clear that...

I'm one of those who think that we're probably not alone, as I voted in the other poll, but I've been growing more and more skeptical about the SETI project. I assume their methods are OK; I just think it is highly unlikely that we will find anything that way, or any other way for the matter...

I'm in the middle of a projected 360min burn to svcd. I burned a couple at vcd it took only 90 to 120 min. seing as i have 4hrs to wait for a direct comparison. any thoughts? :(

To be quite explicit I'm asking whether it is worth investigating, whether the throwing of coins to determine one of the 64 hexagrams, will, to a statistically significant extent, be more of an appropriate hexagram to read for advice, for the question asked, than compared to any of the others...

There was a story recently in N Cal about a woman who was killed on the freeway when hit by a car that crossed the median. The focus was on the inadequacy of the median barrier in preventing the collision. http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/8082550p-9015047c.html Anyway, it came down to...

I am the late president Mobutu Sese Sekou of the Congo Democratic Republic (former Republic of Zaire). There was unrest (war) in my country which resulted in the overthrow of my government and my own death. My family members escaped to Morocco and Sylvia Browne is presently providing valuable...

Get a free appraisal on your soul! Mine is worth £35694 pounds sterling! That comes out to $61,424.22 at today's exchange rate! (GBP to USD) Not bad for an Atheist, huh? How much is your soul worth? Here's a currency converter

Connecting Iraq and Al Qaeda: What's It Worth? Apparently, $20+ million to the Bush administration. $25 million reward for al-Qaida figure U.S. pursues Jordanian said to be involved in Iraq attacks "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, believed by U.S. officials to be the leading al-Qaida figure...

I keep seeing this commercial on catv and wonder how many suckers fall for this one. Interesting strategy - charge a ridiculous price and maybe people will think it actually works. Was it PT Barnum (or Hitler?) that said if you're going to lie make it a big one? Also curious as to how they came...