Official Business — June 15, 2012, 5:19 pm
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On the latest episode of Moyers & Company, “Dark Money in Politics,” Harper’s Magazine contributing editor Thomas Frank discussed the corrupting force of money on Washington, D.C.:
More on the effects of unfettered campaign contributions made through Super PACs can be found in Frank’s April 2012 cover story, “It’s a Rich Man’s World: How billionaire backers pick America’s candidates.”
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Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)
A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”
The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.
