Get Off Your Couch, Walking Maintains Brain Volume

All ye couch potatoes nibbling on Paneer Tikka Masala and digging into Chicken 65, get off your couches NOW. And start walking if you want to keep your brains working well. Walking Slows Cognitive Decline A new study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago says walking […]

Amazing America: Infecting Prisoners with Syphilis Bacteria; And You Schmucks Thought All Barbaric Bastards Were Only in India or the Nazi Camps

We’ve long believed that human beings are the worst species on the planet in their cruelty to sentient and insentient beings. Yet, even we, the hardened, cynical folks at your favorite SI blog, never cease to be amazed at new disclosures of man’s hideous behavior to fellow humans. News report in the NYT and elsewhere […]

Poor Bastards Numbers in America Hit Record High

Boy, it sure looks like our current country the United States of America is going the way of our former country India. The US Census released the poverty numbers today. And they are real UGLY. So bad that they are the highest since poverty estimates started 51 years back. There were 43.6 million people living […]

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