November 2010
15 posts
“There was a pinging noise, familiar to anyone who’s ever pulled the pin from a grenade. I had walked into a tripwire”
—Experience: I threw myself on to an exploding grenade
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“Kevin Lafferty is a smart, cautious, thoughtful scientist who doesn’t hate cats, but he has put forth a provocative theory that suggests that a clever cat parasite may alter human cultures on a massive scale.”
—Cat Parasite Affects Everything We Feel and Do
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“Britain’s health service makes it the only one of 11 leading industrialised nations where wealth does not determine access to care – providing the most widely accessible treatments at low cost among rich nations, a study has found.”
—NHS fares best on free access to healthcare
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“Evangelical Christians in Brazil have banned the use of USB connections after claiming the technology is the mark of Satan-worshippers.”
—USB - Satan’s Data Connection | Science | guardian.co.uk
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