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World AIDS Day: AIDS is a Niche Concern

כ״ד בכסלו ה׳תשע״א (Wednesday 1 December 2010)

This post is in honor of World AIDS Day. According to Ynet, 382 people contracted HIV in Israel in 2009. On a side note, one of the eeriest things about moving from the United States to a tiny country with socialist medicine is that statistics like this can be announced with some authority and even [...]

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Birobidzhan: The Worst Idea Ever

י״א בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 28 November 2009)

How do you know you’ve got the worst idea ever? It’s unlikely that anyone will come up to you and say, “Your idea is so bad it makes me want to cry,” nor will your idea win a “worst idea ever” vote (masses of people tend actually to prefer bad ideas as a matter of [...]

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