Back in 1992, very quietly, a group of scientists announced a phenomenon that few humans are aware of to this day: . That’s right, there are women out there—thousands, if not millions, of women—who can actually think their way to an orgasm. Dig:
orgasm (n.) 1684, from Fr. orgasme, from Gk. orgasmos “excitement, swelling,” from [...]

Hmmm…. looks like it might be. It looks like a week since the last question… so it makes sense. Unless… the Daily Questions (not necessarily limited to one a day, like Apples) - all of the last week’s worth - are floating around Cyberspace, waiting for a clear path to Here.
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Nightwalking :
Exploring the dark with Peripheral Vision
by
Nelson Zink and Stephen Parks
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It all began one afternoon a couple of years ago. We were talking about people who have the ability to see farther or more deeply or more clearly than the rest of us, those exceptional individuals who can easily master complexity and ambiguity and [...]

“NEW DELHI, May 5 (Reuters) - A remark by President George W. Bush
saying India was partly responsible for rising global food prices has
sparked a nationalistic storm across the political spectrum, with the
[Indian] defence minister calling it a “cruel joke”.The Hindu nationalist
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s main opposition party, threatened
on Monday to force a parliamentary debate [...]

As a kid, I read a book by George Gamow, entitled “1, 2, 3… Infinity” - it was written (I think) sometime in the 40’s, and I found it on the book-rack at the Bleriot PX in Paris, and took it to summer camp at La Rochelle with me. Even then, I had gotten into [...]

Here are some government “officials”
you might want to call, or write, or email… I think I’m going to
give some phone numbers here, and links to places you can find mail
and email addresses and perhaps additional phones (most of the
elected critters have multiple “local” offices, where you can
call and talk to somebody whose basic job might [...]

Of course you don’t. But… do you think it makes a damn what you think or what you want? If you’re looking at the TOC on the Daily Question’s Front Page, click on Read More to see this picture, otherwise you won’t know what the hell we’re talking about here. The picture is of a [...]

Yes.No.Maybe.Maybe Not.
The truth is, we can’t sense it.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
The (in)famous Michelson-Morley experiment is widely believed to have proven that the Aether does not exist. Nearly everyone who has ever heard - or read - the words “Michelson-Morley” believes that their experiment(s) and some subsequent ones proved that in fact [...]

The function of the Drug War is to create the Drug Crisis. The Drug Crisis involves billions of dollars in hidden cash flow. Addicted to this flow of money are law enforcement agencies, drug producers and distributors, covert agencies who use it as a source of black funding, and politicians and bankers who are [...]

Here’s something that blows my mind… the other day there was an article in what passes for a daily paper in these parts, the Odessa Amurrikan - on the front page, no less - and it mentioned that the latest estimate for the Great Patriotic War On Terror is Twelve Billion Dollars a month.
I remember [...]