Science

This week's evidence that End Times are near:

Well, if you can't be happy, you might as well have more sex:

A 'female Viagra' that works on the pleasure centre of a woman's brain to restore flagging libido could be on sale within two years.

Women who take flibanserin once a day have sex more often and enjoy it more, large-scale trials have shown.

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Just way too cool for words:

It turns out there's lots of water on the moon — at least near the lunar south pole.

The discovery announced Friday comes from an analysis of data from a spacecraft NASA intentionally crashed into the moon last month.

The disaster film "2012," based on all the hype about Mayan calendars and doomsday predictions, prompted this, 10 end-of-the-world predictions that, well, didn't turn out. I call your attention to this one, since Pat is still around and apparently not even a little bit embarrassed at having been so wrong:

Events have pulled us into ultra seriousness lately, so let's do one just for fun:

Never say the green goofs can't possibly get any goofier:

THEY'RE faithful, friendly and furry - but under their harmless, fluffy exteriors, dogs and cats, the world's most popular house pets, use up more energy resources in a year than driving a car, a new book says.

Well, well:

There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem -- 35% say that today, down from 44% in April 200

Dang. You would have thought this was for hot concert tickets or the newest electronic gaming device:

"Strange old world just keeps getting stranger" department:

Some schools across the country have banned alcohol-based sanitizers from
classrooms. These products can pose a serious poisoning risk to children if
consumed inappropriately. Not only do today`s most-common sanitizers consist of
up to 70 percent ethyl alcohol, a higher alcohol percentage than many hard
liquors, in 2006 The Association of Poison Control Centers reported 12,000 cases

I went to a mini Germanfest with friends Saturday evening at the Knights of Columbus hall on Reed Road. Good food and good music, but there were a couple of hundred people (at least) in a small space, and I started getting phobic about the possibility of catching flu there. Then I spend a lot of Sunday beating myself up for being so irrational. I console myself now with the fact that I'm not the only one: