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Super Bowl: Are American Sports Fans the Classy Ones?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lPMMsTimTg This weekend’s Super Bowl promises to offer excess, violence and, if history is a guide, not much…
Better Living By Doing Your Own Yard Work
I live in a two-bedroom house on a 50×100-foot plot here in Pacific Standard’s home of Santa Barbara,…
Britannia Crosses Another Country off Her Bucket List
Writing at Wired.com’s Danger Room, David Axe (who’s also done some sterling work for us) notes, citing The…
Why Do Men Commit Most Research Fraud?
A study published earlier this week reporting that males commit two-thirds of research fraud has raised a lot…
Prius Sales Suggest Californians Really Are More Eco-Friendly
When it comes to the environment, California car buyers are, if you’ll excuse the expression, walking the walk.…
Sociologists and The End of Sleep
The past week has seen a flurry of attention around the latest purported wonder drug, Modafinil, which claims…
Death Penalty Update: Even Hanging Thieves in Public Doesn’t Deter Crime
Such is the latest lesson to be learned from that laboratory of contemporary criminology, the Islamic Republic of…
Follow Up: A Year Since Pussy Riot, Castellon’s Phantom Race Car
They wore sundresses in Moscow. In January. This weekend marked a year since Russian punk band Pussy Riot…