Drink up!

Don’t pee in the water? Let’s get real. You have to pee and you have to … well, you know, in the toilet. And, therein, Stan Nodvik says, is the major source of pharmaceuticals in our drinking water, in our lakes and rivers, and, of course, in the oceans.

How so? Well, Stan says no drug in pill or capsule or liquid form, including those vitamins, is completely absorbed by the human body. If someone takes, for example, an antidepressant like wellbutrin, then what excess of bupropion beyond what the body/mind needs is voided either as urine or feces.

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Snipped from MacHeist.com.

Okay, this has been one of the most fun, legal ways to get free apps! MacHeist creates these extremely challenging puzzles, games and investigative adventures, and if you solve them, they reward you with awesome free software.

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Snipped from NewScientist.com.

Once again, the puritanical heretics, aka. the religious, are trying to remove your right to the freedom from their religion. They don’t give a two, left shits about the Constitution’s First Amendment stating the separation of church from State.

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[This is a follow-up to an earlier post of mine on blog4brains about lobbyists, entitled "Lobbyists and Our Economic Woes." If you have not read the earlier post, I encourage you to do so.]

Need a job? Here’s a job without any requirements at all — no higher or special education, no background checks, no random drug tests. You do need one thing going for you, and that’s the inborn skills of a pitchman — being a natural pitchman is a must requirement. (Some may say an ability to navigate ethical gray areas is an important skill as well, but that is neither here nor there.) The chores of obtaining proper contacts and mustering the ability to network are important but secondary traits.

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Snipped from NewScientist.com.

Great, more evidence to show why religion creates a more incompetent world. Recent studies are showing that the deeply religious show less activity in a part of the brain that is “linked to anxiety when erring on a simple test.” Well that is what we need more of, people that have less inherent feedback about being wrong because god’s got their back. This anxiety about being wrong makes us want to be right, an important thing in real world functioning. If all were deeply religious, and no one cared about being wrong, this world would be an absolute mess.

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Snipped from BBC.co.uk.

Pope Benedict XVI, known for his brilliant mind and progressive policies, has spoken to the African population about their frightening HIV/AIDS crisis. In what was expected to be a speech rooted in age old religious fervor and ridged conservative policy, was instead a speech that was sharply insightful, objective and, from what many epidemiologists are saying, is surely to rid the continent with this horrifying disease within about 10 years.

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