Laputan Logic blog is always so damned cheerful....

I'll just quote, then you can go over and make up your own mind.

"This is Eta Carinae, the seventh star of the southern Carina constellation and the most massive and luminous star known in our galaxy...it's probably the only star in the night sky that could conceivably kill you."

Visible only in the southern hemisphere, it'll get Hopkins about four nanoseconds before it gets me.

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Following the Intelligent Design Debate? Here's Something to Snack On

Intelligent Design is the big thing in educationally-circumscribed circles, but what can you do? Belief is belief.

Now that the Pastarians Pastafarians have outed themselves, I suppose I will have to go back out on the Sweetbreads Are Grace in Beulah Land evangelical circuit.

Hat tip to friend Lisa.

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So if Your Mind Just Goes "Blank", You'll Know Why

Well, this explains a lot....

Dr. Yoram Vardi, in charge of neurology at the Rambam Hospital and professor of urology at the Technion Israel Institute of Science, both in Haifa, Israel, has demonstrated that p300 brain waves are most reduced by exposure to sexually arousing images.

Link: FuturePundit: Israel Scientist Develops Libido-Meter Brain Wave Test.

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Be Autonomous! You'll Live Longer....

Is your health linked to your personal autonomy?

Bill Gardner, blogger at Maternal and Child Health is publishing a series of posts discussing Michael Marmot's The Status Syndrome.

The first post presents the basic finding: that health is positively correlated with autonomy.

Via Crooked Timber

Update: Coincidentally, Dvorak notes that deadlines cause heart attacks.

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