News - Powered by Yahoo NewsFloyd: Using ?beer test? to judge candidates? Not voting at all is smarte
Voting is, in some respects, analogous to driving: We view it as a sacred privilege. We overestimate our own competence. We think other people do it poorly. We complain about the results.
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:27:32 -0700 -
Jacquielynn Floyd: Using ?beer test? to judge candidates? Not voting at all is smarte
Voting is, in some respects, analogous to driving: We view it as a sacred privilege. We overestimate our own competence. We think other people do it poorly. We complain about the results.
Tue, 01 May 2012 17:57:21 -0700 -
What's Better Than Sex? It Could Be Talking | Flyby | The Harvard Crimso
Apparently a chaste activity does exist that is analogous to sex: talking about oneself.
Sun, 13 May 2012 21:38:02 -0700 -
Earliest Evidence of Biblical Cult Discovere
An excavagation in a 3,000-year-old city yields evidence of an ancient religion.
Thu, 10 May 2012 12:45:19 -0700 -
In the first quarter of 2012, the growth in exports of Armenia three times exceeded import growt
In the first quarter of this year the volume of Armenia?s foreign trade turnover in comparison with the analogous indicator increased by 15 per cent, amounting to $ 1.3 billion, reported BakuToday Nacstatslu?be in Armenia.
Thu, 03 May 2012 05:25:36 -0700 -
Similar Name
MANILA, Philippines - TOTAL similarity in names, while some with just a letter or two of difference, abounds in towns and cities in the country. Not only that, these names are also found in Spain, Mexico, North America, and in South America.
Sun, 20 May 2012 06:25:02 -0700 -
Crown Point Ventures Ltd. Announces Successful Completion of the First Well in its 2012 Drilling Program and the ..
CALGARY, ALBERTA-- - Crown Point Ventures Ltd. is pleased to provide this operational update and announce that the first well of the ten well 2012 drilling program on its El Valle concession in the Golfo San Jorge Basin, Argentina has been successfully completed as an oil well. In addition, the Company ...
Fri, 18 May 2012 03:00:00 -0700 -
This Nude Unicyclist Was Arrested Trying To Cross A Bridge [Car Crime
# carcrime As a native Texan, the phrase "Don't Mess With Texas" was drilled into my brain to mean something analogous to "Keep Highways Beautiful" because of its use in an anti-littering ad campaign. Joseph Farley didn't litter while crossing a bridge in Kemah on a unicycle Wednesday afternoon, but he did "Mess With Texas" by choosing do so in the buff. More »
Thu, 10 May 2012 11:52:20 -0700 -
Talking To Space: Is Anybody Out There? [INFOGRAPHIC
If there's intelligent life within 100 light years of our planet, it's likely they've already gotten an earful (or antennae-ful, or whatever analogous organ-ful) of our radio and TV shows, which have been leaking into space since we first started broadcasting them. Scientists have also sent messages, images and even phonograph records into space in order to show E.T.
Thu, 10 May 2012 13:11:36 -0700 -
NCBI ROFL: Do women prefer more complex music around ovulation
?The evolutionary origins of music are much debated. One theory holds that the ability to produce complex musical sounds might reflect qualities that are relevant in mate choice contexts and hence, that music is functionally analogous to the sexually-selected acoustic displays of some animals. If so, women may be expected to show heightened preferences for more complex music when they are most ...
Mon, 07 May 2012 16:28:33 -0700 -