Excellent news. For the first time, trials are beginning for a type of birth control that would allow women to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS, without the need for their partner’s knowledge or consent – a terribly important caveat for far too many women in awful situations all over the world. The new birth [...]
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HIV-Prevention Female Birth Control In First Field Test
Posted in Health, Science, World News, tagged good things, Health, hiv/aids prevention, women's rights on 06/08/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Young White Babies To Be Outnumbered By Young ‘Other’ Babies In America, Sometime Soon!
Posted in Science, Sexytime, Stuff, The End of the World, tagged get er done, Mexicans!, oh noes!, USA!, white people on 03/10/2010 | 1 Comment »
SHIT IS ON: From the AP: “Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years. In fact, demographers say this year could be the “tipping point” when the number of babies born to [...]
The Mayans Might Just Be Proved Right
Posted in Religion, Science, The End of the World, tagged asteroids, death panels, NASA, space terrorists on 08/13/2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to the Mayan calendar, the end of the world is expected to come in 2012. Crazy, you say? Well… not quite. NASA reports that although four years ago Congress charged them with the mission of spotting most (90%) of the asteroids that pose a threat to Earth by 2020, it never gave it the [...]
Wall Street Journal Reporting On Cankles Now
Posted in Fashion, Science, Sexist, Sexytime, tagged cankles, dumb things, ignorant media, plastic surgery, professional journalism, sexism, wall street journal on 07/23/2009 | Leave a Comment »
The WSJ‘s Pulitzer-winning journalism team has decided to devote front page coverage to the LATEST! and VERY!IMPORTANT! problem area of women’s bodies… cankles! A cankle, for those of you who don’t know, is a fat ankle, the calf-ankle continuum, apparently only found on women. How does one define a “fat ankle” you ask? Who the [...]
Today’s Headlines: South Carolina Governor Lost In The Woods And Has Apparently Never Seen Deliverance
Posted in Military, Politicking, Science, Stuff, War, Weirdnesses, tagged brain trauma, drug cartels, Mark Sanford on 06/23/2009 | Leave a Comment »
• Being a 14 year-old hired killer for your local Mexican drug cartel is a pretty cool way to make a living because you get to make some money, score hot chicks, and kill people. Oh and the tattoos you get in jail? Delish… [NY Times] • An untrained idiot (like me, for instance) would [...]
Why Do Fat People Hate the Planet?
Posted in Science, tagged dumb studies, yer sittin' on the planet bro on 04/22/2009 | 1 Comment »
A study from the London School for Hygiene & Tropical Medicine claims overweight people are doubly bad for the enviroment because not only do they eat more than thin people, but they are also more likely to travel by car. According to the research, each obese person is responsible for about one ton of carbon [...]
Is That So?
Posted in Atheism, Religion, Science, tagged The Vatican on 03/04/2009 | 2 Comments »
VATICAN CARDINAL CALLS ATHEIST THEORY “ABSURD”: This from a person who steadfastly believes Eve was created from Adam’s rib, and Noah packed every animal ever (in pairs) into a boat, to save them. Eh. I’m not here to say either side is wrong or right. But I do know they’ll never know if they are. [...]
Good Ideas: Design Your Own Baby
Posted in Health, Inventions, Science, tagged custom babies, dumb things on 03/03/2009 | 1 Comment »
In a mere six months, the same voodoo priestesses doctors who gave parents the ability to choose the gender of their babies, may be able to allow child-expecting shitheads to customize the eye and hair color of their little ones. It’s The Future! “In the process of doing gender selection, said eugenics enthusiast Dr. Jeff [...]
Science Geeks Ween AIDS Patient Off Of AIDS Drugs, With Science
Posted in Science, tagged AIDS research on 02/12/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cuter Than Jesus friend “Becks (aka Sparkles – AG)” sends us this good news, and adds, “I think fundamentalists and anti-choice people really have it right when they fight against stem cell research that turns out can (possibly) cure both AIDS and leukemia. Because, ya know, it’s against God’s will and such like.” Here here. [...]
