This is becoming an ongoing joke. It’s the algore effect, except now it seems to affect any hyped up global warming event. UPDATE: The following Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearings have been postponed due to inclement weather this week: – The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Water and [...]

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So, here’s the short form. Replacing a laptop keyboard ought to be simplicity itself. And it would be if laptop designers weren’t terrified by the prospect of exposed screwheads. So instead they devise these tortuous mechanisms to hide all the screws with plastic covers with invisible snaps that require the delicacy of a mayfly and [...]

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So, the process of gambling stimulates the amygdala, which controls the fear response in the brain. This is supposed to be why some people are more willing to gamble than others, because their fear response is less. “Laboratory and field evidence suggests that people often avoid risks with losses even when they might earn a [...]

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