Do Toyota’s really have a problem?

Another useless medical test.

Why Greece can’t pay.

A bill has been introduced in the New York State Assembly that would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.

The above is almost as smart as expressing your anger at another nation by destroying your own.

Is Alzheimer’s an overreaction to infection?

The print edition of the paper included a picture of a jug of water with a flame burning on it.

I would have thought that anyone who expected a drilling operation anywhere in their neighborhood would seek to get a baseline analysis of what is in their well water right away. I would want to know what I have been drinking all along so that I know if I am just getting hysterical when something turns up in the water later one.

Using lasers and gold to fight Toxoplasmosis.

Scrap metal dealers tend to be scary people for a lot of reasons. This is one of them.

History is being made. Don’t you feel special to live in times like these?

9 days after a big quake.

You mean that people did not already know this?

What the future looks like. If you are optimistic that is.

Sometimes the small guys are the meanest.

H/T Hip And Thigh

A very old example of an acrostic poem. But it must be admitted that the translation is no longer acrostic.

A soldier reflects on the dangers of glorifying soldiers.

A story of the tsunami that came from the recent earthquake in Chile. Some background here.

Admittedly, Government and the Rights of Man made more sense when it was written then it does now. But this week’s essay of the week makes it plan that it still has relevance now.