“While Bush shouts to the world about America’s war against ‘evil’, his statements are being deconstructed in classrooms and lecture halls.” sp!ked

“Developing safe, specific, powerful memory-improving drugs raises many ethical issues about the implications of cognitive enhancement.” The Scientist (requires free registration)

‘Scientists have found that men are more likely than women to be telling the truth if they say: “Not tonight darling, I’ve got a headache”.’ BBC

“(A) new study, published in the November issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, has identified an apparent ‘depression trait marker’ in the brain that may explain why recovered patients remain vulnerable to another depressive episode. The finding could have important implications for developing more targeted treatments that help patients stay well longer AND identifying family members at risk before they have even experienced a major depression.” EurekAlert!

What’s the longest word in the English language? Is it floccinaucinihilipilification (which is one letter longer, and IMHO much more useful, than antidisestablishmentarianism)? Wikipedia

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“The past two weeks have seen several examples of what has become a trend: making comparisons and references to terrorists and Saddam Hussein in order to smear political foes. While such attacks are far from the direct attempts to suppress dissent we have witnessed in the wake of September 11, 2001, the way in which such comparisons have settled into everyday politics is troubling.” Spinsanity

“Intelligent life might be more likely in a Universe in flux. Ever since Copernicus put the Sun, rather than Earth, at the centre of the Universe, scientists and philosophers have suspected that there’s nothing special about our cosmic time and place. But two physicists now suggest otherwise.

Only galaxies about the age of our Milky Way have the right conditions for intelligent life to develop, argue Jaume Garriga of the University of Barcelona, Spain, and Alexander Vilenkin of Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts1. And that age, they say, might coincide with a fundamental change in the Universe.

What’s more, the search for other planetary systems could tell us whether they’re right or not.” Nature

…but his new email begs readers to trust him and click on the attachment! BBSpot [thanks, Walker!]