Science
You know the time has come to stop paying your taxes when you discover that your government spends hundreds of thousands, nay, millions, on the following researches:
The federal government is spending $423,500 to find out why men don’t like to wear condoms . . .
As Patterico points out, I’ll give you the answer for half that.| MORE ›
Should we say farewell to Google?
The biggest internet revolution for a generation will be unveiled this month with the launch of software that will understand questions and give specific, tailored answers in a way that the web has never managed before.| MORE ›
Little Green Footballs has done much to expose the ‘anti-vaccination crowd’ who use flawed science and simply unscientific arguments to convince people to stop vaccinating children against important diseases.
One of the websites that gives room to such people is the liberal website the Huffington Post.
Reuters reports:
The new influenza strain circulating around most of the United States is putting a worrying number of young adults and children into the hospital and hitting more schools than usual, U.S. health officials said on Monday.
The H1N1 swine flu virus killed a vice principal at a New York City school over the weekend and has spread to 48 states.| MORE ›
Confirmed cases of swine flu jumped by more than 65 percent Saturday with the World Health Organization reporting 615 people in 15 countries infected with the virus commonly known as swine flu.
The organization had reported 367 cases on Friday. The jump in cases was due to ongoing testing of a backlog of specimens in Mexico, the WHO said.| MORE ›
James Schlesinger and Robert Hirsch got real today at the Washington Post, laying out in plain language the fact that energy production is more black than green and will be for the foreseeable future:| MORE ›
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