ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Originally from here . A  New York Times article looks at the  findings of several recent studies on this puzzle: A new study fro...

I came across this link in my archives.  The site is well worth visiting, for a reality correction.  Our views of what female breasts ar...

That title is much more ambitious than what this post can offer, which is a minimal introduction to  certain pitfalls in interpreting po...

Originally from here . Prologue This post has no mothers, but it has multiple fathers, the wounded young men of arts and literature who...

From here , and just because I think it's funny.  (Also this .) David Brooks has written an ode to the hard-boiled Sam Spade charac...

Originally from here . US conservatives have an odd schizophrenic angle to the power of markets:  They are all-important (godlike, even),...

Originally from here . I've been re-reading many of Terry Pratchett's books, in his memory.  I often come across little jewels (o...

This post was originally published here . I've always liked statistics as a science  but never thought it hawt and sexy.  Now I wis...

This post, on the CDC recommendations about alcohol consumption by fertile women not using contraception was first published last Februar...

The post is originally from here .  For other posts about female clothing, see, for example,  this , this and this post. Richard Sta...

Originally from here . Sometimes I despair of people's desire for very simple solutions to complicated problems.  Life is complica...

The Republicans presented their alternative to  "Obamacare" (the Affordable Care Act or ACA) in June.  That would be the system...

This is the second post* in the toolkit series which tries to equip you with a few tools that might come handy in debates with people who d...

INTRODUCTION* John Tierney is a right-wing libertarian science writer at the New York Times .  Wikipedia describes him as follows: In...

Originally posted here. A delicious topic:  How fundamentalist religions cope with sexuality in general and with women's sexuality ...

This post* is from the imaginary series of what weird stuff Echidne's mind latched onto when it was supposed to do real work, and has ...

This was first posted in 2010 , but its concerns:  about the lack of proper vacation time in the United States,  are still with us.  If an...

I'm offering you a hammer or a saw or a chisel in these toolkit posts, not to build furniture or a house with, but to equip you to argu...