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Chicago Bulls mascot rescues woman from inattentive Celtics-fan boyfriend

Posted on 2016-03-31 by GaryApril 4, 2016
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OK, in some respects this is pretty obnoxious, but it’s still funny. The Chicago Bulls “Kiss Cam” catches a Celtics fan who’s so engrossed in a phone call that he ignores his girlfriend’s or wife’s frustrated request to be kissed. … Continue reading →

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Bogus medical reports in the press

Posted on 2016-03-30 by GaryMarch 28, 2016
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Here’s yet another short video from pediatrician Aaron Carroll, this one venting annoyance at misleading or overhyped reports of medical research in the news media. Link: https://youtu.be/e0W5PQRYSac Incidentally, in this video Dr Carroll mentions belonging to a group of doctors … Continue reading →

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False positives in medical (and other) tests

Posted on 2016-03-29 by GaryApril 1, 2016
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(Updated 2016 April 1 to add some additional point and try to improve the explanation below the video.) Here’s a video with a surprise ending — a big surprise, in fact. The question addressed is this: What if you’re take … Continue reading →

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McCrory administration misrepresents new NC law

Posted on 2016-03-28 by GaryMay 8, 2016
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As noted in a previous post, North Carolina’s newest law is so ill-considered that it mandates the very thing is was supposedly meant to prevent. For example, the law (full text here) requires some men (complete with beards) to use … Continue reading →

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John Oliver debunks Trump’s border wall

Posted on 2016-03-26 by GaryMarch 26, 2016
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As you’ve no doubt heard, Donald Trump proposes to keep foreigners out of the country by building a high wall along the southern U.S. border. If you don’t think about it too hard, this might sound like a sensible idea, … Continue reading →

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Conan O’Brien’s tribute to Garry Shandling

Posted on 2016-03-26 by GaryMarch 26, 2016
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Garry Shandling died Thursday at the age of 66, and that night Conan O’Brien talked about how Shandling helped him get past a personal crisis, partly as a consequence of a strange coincidence. There have been a lot of tributes … Continue reading →

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Red State Update: Is Trump Hitler?

Posted on 2016-03-25 by GaryMarch 25, 2016
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Jackie and Dunlap ponder whether Trump is really as bad as Hitler, including the possibility that he might even be worse — a rich, Yankee Hitler. Some naughty four-through-six letter words here and there. Link: https://youtu.be/qRNne_45j7A by … Continue reading →

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Unintended consequences of new NC law

Posted on 2016-03-24 by GaryMay 8, 2016
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(Update 2016 March 28: The McCrory administration has produced a press release seriously misrepresenting the import on the law. More in this later post.) (Update 2016 March 26: It turns out the new law also contains a provision canceling a … Continue reading →

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Close encounter

Posted on 2016-03-21 by GaryMarch 20, 2016
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I suspect most of you have seen this bit from NBC’s Saturday Night Live late last year, but in case you haven’t, here it is. Government officials question Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, and Ryan Gosling about their encounters with aliens. … Continue reading →

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Evolutionary leftovers in the human body

Posted on 2016-03-20 by GaryMarch 20, 2016
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Interesting brief video (under four minutes) about some things in our bodies that aren’t very useful but are left over in our DNA from our remote ancestors: Link: https://youtu.be/rFxu7NEoKC8 by … Continue reading →

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