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This is easily my favorite "homage" I've seen so far.

Men like blond bombshells (and women want to look like them)
Long before TV—in 15th- and 16th- century Italy, and possibly two millennia ago—women were dying their hair blond. A recent study shows that in Iran, where exposure to Western media…

The woman who has failed her driving theory test NINETY times – and it’s cost her nearly £3,000
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
UPDATED: 04:07 EST, 18 March 2011
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A woman has failed her driving theory test an amazing 90 times…

I unabashedly think antiquate-it-yourself faux retro-futurism is cool, from Jet Age, Eames-inspired modernism applied to PC case design* to the current love/bane of the intertard set, steampunk.

Why there has been an accelerating interest in…

I've been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I heard in my own second-grade classroom a few years back.

When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few…

Scott Westerfeld's Goliath ships today, concluding his fabulous steampunk YA trilogy that began with Leviathan and continued in Behemoth. This alternate history of WWI is set in a world divided into two technological camps. On the Darwinist side,…

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A small subset of suicide attempts may be linked to an infection that starts in the litter box. A new study suggests an association between Toxoplasma gondii and suicide attempts among women.

Interesting finding, to be sure, but how does one even…