Surprise of all Surprises…

    Or maybe I should say, "this in from Captain Obvious" NPR published an article (surprisingly because that's their job), When LA's Air Got Better, Kids' Asthma Cases Dropped Children who live in areas with bad air pollution are more likely to develop asthma, which is the most common chronic illness among young people. …

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No sex until marriage…

(I am sure only my husband gets the title) So we start with a recent survey on the “Purity Pledge” you know that is the one where a young lady pledges to be a virgin until marriage.  That she remains pure until her wedding night.  How Victorian of them. I wonder if they do it …

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And the evidence says…

We found this article after writing our other piece today, and we feel that it confirms, scientifically, what we were saying. There is a significant decrease in cognitive flexibility while following a fundamentalist religion. A study published in the journal Neuropsychologia has shown that religious fundamentalism is, in part, the result of a functional impairment in a brain region …

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