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Good news: It is almost Christmas

Good news: There is some good eatin' on those.

How can I surreptitiously make sure the babysitter is not doing something dodgy while I am out?

Just look how countries survived the high inflation in Europe in the 20s after losing WWI, and vote accordingly. How can I get these people to leave me alone?

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Good news: He is a dog. You can just lock him in the yard until he behaves

The Roti sans Pareil, a 17 stuffed bird recipe from 1807. Gastronomy

Stop being ridiculous. Take yourself super seriously, so that the bird will realise the gravitas your person bears. My wife's birthday is coming up, and I don't know what to get her. She didn't appreciate the frying pan last year, or the book on how to beca better wife before that. I am lost.

Bad news: perhaps it is an acquired taste, or you must develop your palate to appreciate notes of model glue and rubber, but I simply don't want to.

Bad news: Some of us don't know what mezcal is.

Iamblichus

Get a fast truck, scan the metereological chatter daily, and keep cruising the Alley. I got a new washing machine and a full suit the other day, admittedly a little beat up. Where can I get quality childcare?

Good news: Humans all have enzymes to break down alcohol in moderate amounts. If they so choose, people need not be teetotalers.

History of Baby Hatches - OrphanCare Orphan

The ancient Romans had a complex system of representing numbers with their fingers. They could count to 100 on one hand and up to 10000 using both. It involved assigning values to each joint and the manner in which the fingers are positioned. I think Bede explains the details somewhere.

Yes, it clearly says Religion has survival benefit. If you start from a perspective of evolutionary theory, it explains nicely why humans have consistently and almost universally been religious in the past, therefore. Biology as you say. It does not however say there isn't a 'divine calling'...

Please supply the evidence of this said "debunking", for I am unaware of this. It actually shows a profound misunderstanding of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). EBM works by cumulative data and making deductive conclusions based thereon. Hence meta-analyses, which by pooling the data from lots of...

I don't understand what you think you are saying here. We don't have data for this question in most Asian contexts. Am I supposed to make things up then? As to Hong Kong, this article sums it up nicely: DEFINE_ME It is probably the low-ish smoking and lack of metabolic diseases, maybe related...

Religious activity has a far more pronounced effect than merely social/community life. We have known this for decades, this is merely another instance of it. Being social is healthy, but belonging to a religious group increases how healthy you are significantly - they have even shown that how...

So the studies are overwhelmingly North American and European, so Spirituality means essentially Christianity or Judaism mostly. As far as I know there are not enough studies done in the Far East on this, it being a societal problem - China has idealogical reasons to align with Atheism and...