Italy was taken off the list, we're PIGS again, only with Ireland this time. Check out more info in The Economist's "The man who screwed Italy": Italy *is* badly screwed, but it's a different kind of screwed. They don't owe so much money, they've just been steadily losing competitivity since the 40s, and are not doing…

I think if the narcos aren't running Mexico it's just because they're disciplined enough to do what's in their best interest, and keep it down enough, so that it resembles more Chicago in the 20s than Somalia. Just bribe everyone you need, kill everyone you want to, and let others take care of all the hassle of…

Apparently the 40th failed stated failed so bad it disappeared. We're going to be left wondering which it was

They're also voted.

Am I the only one who's reminded of cybermen by that thing? it gives me the creeps

Not gripping, I'm clawing at the pavement like a maniac.

@bob_d

indeed

Take comfort in the fact that there are people who believe in hollow earth. It could have been worse

Except that any rotation movement is caused by a centripetal acceleration and anyone "feels" a centrifugal acceleration when seen from inside the rotating frame of reference. Those guys are not confused at all

@bob_d

@voltcruelerz

It is, it's not against cancer itself, but against the HPV, that causes other things and often cancer

It's only hopeless if their practitioners start studying a bit more of the scientific method and applying it, and start testing their beautiful models with actual subjects and rejecting them if people don't act the way they predict

OUCH!

The Decline Effect Is Stupid

the problem is getting a grant to repeat the test in two other different areas and cultures, which probably requires that the first test "points to...". And the negative result a scientist can see as useful, a non-scientist will probably see as a huge waste of time and money

" If everything can be explained using evolutionary psychology, then have we actually explained anything at all?"

@ipomen_scarlet

I guess I don't have a right to think that cutting off women's clitorises so they can't have orgasms is a barbaric practice, since I don't have one.