Cara Santa Maria writes: Cats may make us laugh out loud, but do the kittens in these adorable memes find their own behavior funny? I wondered about humor in the animal kingdom, so I reached out to Jonathan Balcombe, an ethologist who literally wrote the book (several in fact) on animal pleasure. I asked him …
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The book will be out within the next couple of weeks. It should be available worldwide. 9780981843001-Perfect-093012 Click to see the picture. I’ll put a link here on my website and on my personal FB page and on a FB page dedicated to Baltho, named, The Dog Who Owned a Man. It will also first …
Very clever. Watch.
The months-long Center for Public Integrity investigation into the Medicare program has uncovered a textbook example of the expensive consequences of what’s known as “regulatory capture.” Doctors and hospitals are likely being overpaid billions of dollars, which is hastening the depletion of the Medicare trust fund, because lawmakers and regulators put lobbying and professional groups …