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"Governments don't want to admit the failure of health-care or surveillance systems, and they are afraid of the trade and travel sanctions that may result from a large outbreak."
Software developer Steve Laniel says that if we really want the Information Age rather than the Chatter Age, there’s only one solution: relearn self-control.rn
"The creator of America's first and best satirical daily newspaper cartoon talks about 40 years of upsetting politicians and editors."
"Mentally disturbed people are not merely paying a personal price for our social sanity, but are sometimes gifted too in their own peculiar way."
"What makes cobras kings is not just their size, or their deadliness...it is that they eat other snakes. How does the king cobra maintain such an apparently high-risk lifestyle?"
"Our self-image is one of bold action. In reality, Americans resist change, pressing the government to act boldly only when a national calamity forces it upon us."
"One obvious problem for many porn users is the conflict between their stated belief in equality and respect for women, and the material they're watching in private."
"American journalists in Baghdad were under attack not just from Iraqi insurgents, but, at least verbally, from our own country's civilian and military commanders as well."
A US study into adult creativity has discovered that the more an adult acts and thinks like a child, the more imaginative he or she becomes.
Large-scale drainage projects were popular in the early 20th century - but most came to nothing.
For a few decades in the 20th century, it seemed as humanity's triumphs of public health were turning into an ironic and deadly trap. Because more babies were surviving infancy […]
Why is it that we when we talk about our work, we inspire neither those we address nor ourselves?
People who live in religious neighborhoods buy just as much pornography as people everywhere else. They're just less likely to subscribe to an online porn site on a Sunday.
Many Eruptions readers have been keeping a very close eye on the events at Merapi in Indonesia - you should check out their discussion. The situation at the volcano is […]
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Producers said it was too dangerous to make "The Black Tulip," so the filmmaker had to take a line of credit against her house. And that was just the beginning […]
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The filmmaker does not consider herself a feminist, saying that women and men have their own distinct God-given talents.
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France has no right to ban the burqa, says the filmmaker. "If they want to wear a burqa, if they feel safe and beautiful that way, who is France to […]
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The absolute repression that women dealt with under the Taliban was all the more painful because Afghan women had previously enjoyed so much freedom. The filmmaker recalls pictures of her […]
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The filmmaker recalls some of the most terrifying moments during the shooting of her film—including a near-kidnapping and finding a severed hand in the back of a car.
(Note: Look for updates on Merapi and Kliuchevskoi later today) I caught an article over the weekend about the potential of recent volcanism on Venus. The study that appeared Geophysical Research Letters found […]