The three threes. “Three hours a day, three days a week for three weeks.” That, apparently, is what parents have to go through to get a conventional diagnosis that their baby suffers colic. Just one little factoid from a podcast on NPR about a clinic in Rhode Island dedicated to colic. A trial tha...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.7 This week: 88.9

Tuesday 5 September: I just knew this was going to get boring, and it has. There was the six and a half hour walk on Sunday, fuelled only by a single small cheese sandwich and a few grapes. I’m sure I would have been ravenous pre-SLD. And I had to tigh...

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Blue Girl In a Red State had me in a bit of a lather with a post about how she could avoid shopping if she gave (or didn’t give; it wasn’t at all clear to begin with) her hubby Shag Buns. Being a squeeky clean sorta gal from somewhere or other, she had no idea that the juxtaposition of “shag” and...

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Michael C. LaBarbera at the University of Chicago has an archive of what must have been interesting lectures on The Biology of B-Movie Monsters.¹ Maybe he's the person to illuminate P.Z. Myers on Buffy's biology?

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Below please find the two lead paras of a Guardian story filed last week. Thanks to Frinktank. I have no comment whatsoever.

A Vatican official has said the Catholic church will excommunicate a medical team who performed Colombia's first legal abortion on an 11-year-old girl, who was eight w...

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