Gadfly · 2015

God And Fingers

by | Jul 9, 2015

There is evidence that fork-like instruments were developed thousands of years ago to facilitate eating barbecue by the fireside.

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Climate and Sexuality

by | Jul 1, 2015

If we should pay attention to what science says about the condition of the earth, shouldn’t we also pay attention to what science says…

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American Medicine

by | Jun 17, 2015

While doing some research for a column about our bizarre, scam-filled, and often totally baffling health care “system,”...

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Dreams and Nightmares

by | Jun 10, 2015

I have always been a faithful reader of Lloyd Omdal’s columns because he can pick a problem apart and submit a reasonable solution with…

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Blood moons

by | Jun 3, 2015

There is a blood moon “gospel” of sorts among Christian fundamentalists that prophecies the Rapture, or the End Times...

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Maxims

by | May 27, 2015

A reader recently sent me a marvelous computer -- animated video of our rover Curiosity landing on Mars in November of 2011.

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Babel Babble

by | Apr 30, 2015

At last count the 7 billion descendants of Adam and Eve – or of Pithecanthropus erectus – who presently inhabit the earth try to…

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Imagine

by | Apr 15, 2015

Memo to the North Dakota House of Representatives: The times they are a’changin.’

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Animal Speech

by | Mar 25, 2015

According to the Bible—and Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution—Adam and relatives of Pithecanthropus Erectus have dominion over all of the animals on earth. If

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Religion and Science

by | Mar 18, 2015

It has come to pass that when a minority religious group rules a majority religious group disaster will occur. Look at conditions in Syria.

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