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We have been phoned about every five days by men purporting to be raising money for police charities. Nobody else phones us so often. I checked, and was told that this was not genuine and that the police were expressly forbidden to ask for money from the public, whether they are current or retired member …
One pays for things like blogs and websites. Money, that is. Today I decided I want to move to another planet, a planet without hi-tech stuff or teeming with fraudsters. I tried to renew my subscription for this blog domain. Should be easy, yes? No. It seems that my wife, minutes before, had tried to …
US Senators have accused Facebook of disregarding research showing harm to teens. Senators grilled Facebook executives recently, accusing them of ignoring internal research indicating that social media can harm teens. Lawmakers demanded that Facebook executives explain the company’s efforts to attract young users despite evidence that Instagram, owned by Facebook, makes body image issues worse …
Epicureans did not pool their assets in any communal fashion, as other philosophical groups actually did; the argument was that such a practice would either indicate or, worse yet, foster mutual suspicion. It is hard to define such terms as “job” in the context of the ancient world; “Old Money”, Athenian patricians –men only, of …
Studies that discovered it is safer to transport a rhinoceros upside-down and that beards may be an evolutionary development to help protect men’s faces from punches, have won Ig Nobel prizes. Another study to receive an award studied the ways cats communicate with humans. The prizes, awarded by science magazine Annals of Improbable Research, were …
