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That number shoots up to 40 per cent among teens who actually admit to having had sex. I’m not sure how the rest of them contracted their diseases, but I’m guessing public toilet seats didn’t have much to do with it.
And those figures don’t even reflect gonorrhea, warts, HIV/AIDS or other nasties that researchers […]

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Canada, already home to many thousands of former U.S. soldiers who wanted no part of the Vietnam War, may continue its tradition of harbouring conscientious objectors by allowing Iraq War opponents to settle north of the border. The three opposition parties in Canada’s four-party minority government joined forces today to pass a non-binding motion […]

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In case you’re not familiar with the original We Are the World, it’s a song written for charity by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and sung by an all-star cast including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Bette Midler, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner and, oddly, […]

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The folks at Damn Interesting have done it again — this time with a great piece by Alan Bellows on the origins of eugenics, the practice of selectively breeding humans for the purpose of improving the gene pool.
From the article:

In 1865, Darwin’s half-cousin Sir Francis Galton pried the lid from yet another worm-can with the […]

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Someone has dug up a very trippy poem by a 20-year-old Barack Obama, penned back in 1981:

Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.

On a perhaps related note, when Obama was asked last year whether […]

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Houston, Texas has apparently been invaded by red hairy “rasberry ants,” named for the exterminator who tried in vain to wipe them out. They’ve also been crawling into sewage pumps, computers, gas meters and other electrical equipment, causing short circuits.
A Fox News clip shows Tom Rasberry himself, who says “you can kill ‘em by […]

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The 40,000 residents of Muskogee, Oklahoma have elected 19-year-old John Tyler Hammons as mayor. A crossover candidate if there ever was one, Hammons heads both the Young Republicans and the Young Democrats at his college. He garnered 69 per cent of the vote, beating three-time mayor Herschel McBride.

And for all you eligible young […]

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