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I link to Urban Workbench, a website that promotes sustainable living, because I like the idea. It fits into my developing philosophy of husbandry, a term so easily rejected and laughed at today because it is the antithesis of our developing culture of squander and abandon. I also like the idealistic young men and women [...]

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As everyone knows, there are a number of women’s shelters in operation all over the country, and in these shelters women can obtain free counsel, protection, and shelter. In most cases, men are not allowed to reside in these government funded shelters, and until recently their services were often only extended to women. People often [...]

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Imagine that it is a beautiful spring morning, the brightening sky is clear and each breath is clean, cool and refreshing. You head out to look at the flowers and fruit trees and draw in the sweet scents of a world in bloom. Suddenly, a fierce, harsh “CAW” erupts nearby. Others respond from a distance, [...]

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Cultural borrowings often have odd results, but sometimes they can inspire disbelief or even hilarity. Such was the case when, not long ago, some journalists discovered that Chinese housewives had been signing up for pole dancing lessons to improve physical fitness and enjoy themselves. Many Americans (myself among them) snickered at the idea of Chinese [...]

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I have had some recent experience with the world of social work, and although I’ve tried to have an open mind, I certainly haven’t been too impressed by it. Yesterday evening I was in an “anger management” class, and the teacher embraced what appeared to be a Daoist ideology. He described emotions as “energy,” which [...]

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There have been a number of articles popping up in recent years about how advanced paternal age can negatively affect a child’s health. It seems at times that the aim of these pieces is to promote the idea that men have a “biological clock” just like women. Although that is the wrong way to look [...]

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A reader sent me an article pointing out that sex-chromosome chimerism has been found to be quite common in sheep. The estimated rate of sex-chromosome chimerism in sheep is over 4%, but I suspect it would be found to be somewhat higher with more extensive tissue testing. This is relevant to the Chimera Hypothesis due [...]

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Introduction On Christmas Day last year I was reading an article about cattle breeding, recalled the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and suddenly an explanation for human homosexuality came to mind. As a fairly new parent, this issue, along with others concerning how people grow and what they ultimately become, has been on [...]

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Only an elite few are familiar with the exquisite pain that is gout, that "disease of kings" that strikes in the wee hours like a thief in the night, leaving its victim howling and cursing as he hops on one foot or hobbles to the medicine cabinet for a dose of painkillers. Podagra, the most [...]

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Until I had kids I didn’t really think much about the issue of homosexuality. It seemed a bit odd, but not all that important. Things changed when I realized what a big issue it has become in schools, and then it started to bother me. Not only the political aspects of homosexuality, but the fact [...]

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