Tim: This study doesn't seem too impressive, as the methodology is (fatally?) confounded. It would have been significantly stronger had they used a variety of populations, and over extended periods of time. As it stands right now, their results seem pretty uninterpretable.

But with that said--it's pretty well accepted that scientific revolutions come from the innovations of single men before the age of 29. Thomas Kuhn writes quite a lot about this in this theory of scientific evolution / revolution. Apparently, marriage and family is a distraction, and people get too invested within their own paradigms after the age of 30 (or so), thus lessening the possibility to significant out-side-the-box innovations. (There are always exceptions, however.)

So in short--all of us are pretty much spent. It's all downhill from here...

Tim: Is this type of security really possible, or is this yet-another-claim to be cracked in 3 months?

Everyone: Guy Gabaldon, who as an 18-year-old Marine private single-handedly persuaded more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers to surrender in the World War II battle for Saipan, has died. He was 80. (Lunch break addition!)

Everyone: Kook Alert--The Lords' Witnesses and the True Bible Code (Lunch break addition!)

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