This little cartoon is so funny and yet so true.

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“Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.” -Brandon Sanderson At the risk of inflaming everyone…
“The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to -271.3°C, not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.” –Stephen Hawking Imagine you traveled out into empty space. Away from any and…
“Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.” -Jules Verne…
Best climate cartoon for a long time: http://xkcd.com/402/ Attached to some serious science via Nature.

Surely a good scientist would experiment with different ways of pulling the lever - different hands, fingers, feet, by rope, and getting other scientists to try.

And it the Bush administration had a scientific mindset, it might try something differentwith each war.