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With child-rearing ideas like these, you have to wonder how the human species survived… 2

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With child-rearing ideas like these, you have to wonder how the human species survived as long as it did

Over the years there has been some colossally bad advice about how to raise babies, mostly coming from men.  If breast milk is so deficient as Walter W. Sackett Jr believed, why didn't primates including humans go extinct millions of years ago? 

As much as I value science, it's only useful when backed up by actual evidence. Screwball ideas like most of these are no more scientific than creationism or the flying spaghetti monster. 

Baby “Experts” You Should Definitely Ignore
In the annals of bad baby advice, a dubious prize goes to Tennessee preacher Michael Pearl, who provoked outrage last year when it came to light that a book he’d written with his wife, To Train Up a C…


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Apparently I'm not the only one thinking of a diesel-flywheel-hybrid Audi su…

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Apparently I'm not the only one thinking of a diesel-flywheel-hybrid Audi supercar

UK magazine Autocar is reporting today that +Audi International is working on a plans for a supercar powered by a diesel engine with a flywheel-hybrid-electric system much like the Le Mans-winning R18 e-tron quattro. About a month ago I speculated pretty much the same thing https://plus.google.com/114133424228405038490/posts/jD87pkgvvP6 following the rumors that Audi was scuttling it's plans to build a battery-electric version of the R8. 

The difference here is that Audi is guessing that this diesel hybrid would be a new model above the R8. It's entirely possible that such a model could be derived from the R8 platform while gaining a new name like R10.  I'd certainly love to try out a car like this regardless of what it's called. 

Audi R10 diesel hypercar plotted | Autocar
Audi is planning to build a diesel hypercar, using Le Mans-developed hybrid technology


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Is it all part of a plan to cull the herd? 1

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Is it all part of a plan to cull the herd?

God Tells Woman to Go 100 MPH And Lay On Horn Because Florida
Oh, Florida. Sweet, sweet Florida. You give and give and give. This time you’ve given us a 41-year old loon who insists that God was telling her to go 100 MPH in a 30 MPH zone and hold down her horn f…

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Should be a breeze, right? 4

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Should be a breeze, right?

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A developer in China reaffirmed its plan to finish the world's tallest building in 90 days. What could possibly go wrong?

Developer reaffirms plan to finish world’s tallest building in 90 days
The world’s tallest skyscraper supposedly remains on track to debut in China early next year, but the details surrounding its progress seem quite strange. Read this article by Christopher MacManus on …


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The original Mac portable of 1989 was pretty much the opposite of a contemporary… 1

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The original Mac portable of 1989 was pretty much the opposite of a contemporary MacBook Air

The fact that you could move it around was about the limit of its portability at 16 pounds and 4 inches thick. This particular example has been modified somewhat to with new guts that have actually transformed it into a hackintosh, allowing it to run OSX.

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This is just so utterly wrong 2

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This is just so utterly wrong

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Oh no.

Florida’s most-blinged Camaro ZL1 brings out the haters in force
To paraphrase Rene Magritte, this is not a car. Yes, it is a Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 convertible, and it has an engine which can turn those 30-inch Forgiato gold saucers into forward motion. But the tran…

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Sergio rides to the rescue of a great American brand once again 3

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Sergio rides to the rescue of a great American brand once again

Fiat to purchase bankrupt Hostess Brands
Italian automaker Fiat has announced their plans to purchase Hostess Brands, saving the legendary American bakery from liquidation. “Iconic Hostess products such as the Twinkie®, the Ring Din…


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The new 1.0-liter EcoBoost from +Ford Motor Company does fit in the overhead bi… 3

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The new 1.0-liter EcoBoost from +Ford Motor Company does fit in the overhead bin

Ford Built An Engine So Small They Were Able To Send It Through Airport Security
Going through TSA checkpoints when flying is always a chore. You have to chug your booze, take off your shoes, belt, aluminum underpants, empty your pockets, and take your laptop and engine blocks out…

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Enterprises (including campaigns) need to think more carefully about what is str…

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Enterprises (including campaigns) need to think more carefully about what is strategic

Outsourcing and offshoring can really come back to bite you in the ass if you're not careful. In the case of the Romney campaign, it seems like all of its vaunted Orca project should have been considered a strategic effort.

Instead, the Romney campaign did what many corporations have done in tight times—it kept its IT budget in check and heavily outsourced technology relative to its budget, keeping only a few strategic efforts in-house.

If the parties are smart (something they rarely show evidence of) they would be developing these systems now, long before the pressure of a campaign and keep them online for continual development and testing. Once the nominee is selected, those resources would be made available to the candidates team instead of having to reinvent the wheel every four years. 

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Romney's flopped "Orca" project possibly built by Best Buy?

Well, that explains that…

Romney campaign got its IT from Best Buy, Staples, and friends
MindShift Technologies and small firms handled most of campaign’s internal tech.

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