Ten-second boxing match
I rarely watch professional boxing, but I did manage to work this short match into my schedule. [youtube]http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=JH5wEEFfer0&feature=related[/youtube]
New ideas for sports competitions
Japanese TV shows are legendary for coming up with wacky ideas.  This one has to be the wackiest I've ever seen. I'm at a loss for words.
They’re bombing 1 1/2 million people in a cage.
"They're bombing 1 1/2 million people in a cage," says a Norwegian doctor working in Gaza. The attached video contains pointed commentary by Bill Moyers, who addresses massive media failure and indiscriminate death. So often, the human condition seems to be the same sad story over and over, ever so…
What if college and healthcare were both free?
Erich's post about free college got me thinking: what if college and healthcare were both free? What if America's college-bound population -- the nation's intelligentsia -- could seriously consider getting married and having children at the same young age that the rest of the population tended to reproduced? What if…
Walking with Dinosaurs
Over the recent holiday I was fortunate to find several good films on DVD at my local public library. One I have just mentioned -- The Ox-Bow Incident. Another is a trilogy about evolution, produced by the BBC. The films are titled, "Walking with Monsters," "Walking with Dinosaurs," and "Walking…