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Sitting Kills

A big infographic about how sitting down for six hours a day increases your risk of death, compared to active days.

The GOP's bizarre war on sex

Apparently, the country is a lot kinkier than Newt Gingrich. So why is he running away from his "open marriage" initiaitves?

Good Consent

There's been a lot of chatter in the past year about "enthusiastic consent," the standard the pro-sex community is attempting to set for when people should have sex-- basically, when both people are enthusiastic about it. Ozy talks a lot about "good consent," a weaker standard when people don't know if they're enthusiastic because they don't necessarily know what they want, but they get into bed anyway in order to find out.

Jobs, Jobs, and Cars

Mitch Daniels' reply to the State of the Union claimed that Barack Obama "disparaged people in business," including people like "Steve Jobs, [who] created more of them than all those stimulus dollars the president borrowed and blew." Krugman points out that Apple has created only 43,000 jobs in the US, most of them retail positions with no stability, whereas the GM bailout preserved 400,000 jobs.

New Drone has no pilot.

The Navy prepares to launch X-47B, a completely autonomous, death-dropping flying robot.

Dan Savage on Newt: He didn't want an 'open relationship': He just wanted to cheat.

"Technically you're not asking your wife for an open marriage if you've already been fucking another woman for six years. You're presenting your wife with an ultimatum. That doesn't make you a proponent of open marriage, Newt, it makes you a CPOS."

Slow-Cooked Squirrel

A keeper of a recipie. The poster recommends a zinfandel as the accompanying wine.

It's Monday!

"Don't get me started. One time I went on wikipedia trying to figure out the drummer from Def Leppard’s name and I accidentally got a degree in neurobiology."

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"Don't get me started. One time I went on wikipedia trying to figure out the drummer from Def Leppard’s name and I accidentally got a degree in neurobiology."

He needed an interdisciplinary team, but probably no neurobiologists. Physio-therapists and occupational therapists, and so on. And his name is Rick Allen. I guess for everything I should know, my brain contains at least three pointless facts about Def Leppard. Sad, really.