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It is widely understood that there are a variety of environmental exposures that have immense impact during pregnancy but much less impact a...

Apple became the world’s most valuable-ever company two weeks ago. It is worth $624bn, more than all the listed companies in Portugal, Irel...

I was looking over the traffic statistics for Wash Park Prophet over the last week and noted that there was only a single hour in the last 1...

How do you tell the difference between a movement on the verge of violence, a potentially violent movement still far from taking decisive ac...

KABUL, Aug. 31, 2012 (Reuters) . . . A 12-year-old boy was kidnapped and killed in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, his severed head...

A black camerawoman who works for CNN says she was "not surprised" to have two people at the Republican National Convention throw ...

In a nutshell: [T]he [unanimous] court bases its analysis [striking down a Texas voter ID law] on three basically uncontested facts: (1...

A New York Times opinion piece from last week by a research who argues for prenatal effects in the womb as a cause of some share of autism ...

Explorations about how the fantasy epic might have been written in the hands of the likes of Ayn Rand, Ernest Hemingway, and Oscar Wilde are...

About 10-20 percent of people in the United States have Toxoplasma gondii , or T. gondii , in their bodies, but in most it was thought to l...

Gross national product aka GNP (or the slight variant on it, gross domestic product aka GDP) are measures of aggregate national production i...

I care more about what companies do than what they say.  Call you company what you will.  Spend millions on advertising.  But, what matters ...

In light of the July 20 massacre in which a gunman killed 12 moviegoers in Colorado, Scalia was asked whether legislatures could ban the sa...

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (a Democrat) and his wife Helen Thorpe, separated yesterday. They lived in a nice urban residential nei...

Denver's average daily temperature in July 2012 was 78.9 degreees, a new record high average daily temperature (there were seven days ov...

I am not going to alter the Wash Park Prophet "brand" that I have used to blog here under for the last seven years. But, in the i...

Most European countries, mostly due to their proportional representation electoral systems and/or strong regional political differentiation,...

The U.S. Navy (in support of the Marine Corps) has deployed an unmanned cargo helicopter called K-MAX in Afghanistan where it has worked we...