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• Dr. Eric R. Pianka, Ecologist and 2006 Distinguished Texas scientist, recently advocated the efficient elimination of 90% of the world's population via the use of airborne Ebola, in a speech before the Texas Academy of Science. The Citizen Scientist reports that he received a standing ovation by his peers after the speech. Chilling, yes. But I wonder ... what would motivate a person who's apparently a brilliant scientist, to make such a assertion?
• Mark Spencer invented Asterisk ... and unless he's squashed like a bug, his invention is poised to disrupt the entire telecom business and make him richer than Bill Gates. Read more at Unusual Business Ideas That Work.
• CBS News has a feature on the science of sexual orientation. For the intelligent, none of what's in the report is anything new. For the stupid, you won't learn a damn thing by following the link. You're in denial and prefer to hate.

Update: April 4, 2006
An update on the Pianka story referenced above. Apparently this is all part of an alleged smear campaign by Forrest Mims, Chairman of the Environmental Science Section of the Texas Academy of Science -- who wrote the questionable story referenced above. I thought something was fishy when Mims couldn't produce a direct witness to his claims. Pianka apparently didn't advocate the death of billions by airborne Ebola. He simply warned that human population growth is leading to wide scale deforestation, and the planet has a way of keep things in check. One such way is diseases ... and if we're not careful, something like an airborne Ebola virus could wipe us all out. Unfortunately, the news has been picked up by a great number of nut jobs with their own agenda, and the perversion has spread to the MSM. No one it appears wanted to ask Pianka what he said ... no one that is, until KXAN.