Montana's plan for wolf management much more sensible than Idaho ...
Far up the East Fork of the Bitterroot, about as close to the Continental Divide as anyone wants to hike in mid-November, I paused to catch my breath and size up the competition.Tracks in the snow suggested a large mountain lion and I had the same idea: That saddle ahead looked promising for elk. Some 100 yards back, crisp new tracks in the snow showed a bear also was on the prowl - probably looking for his bed at this late date, but surely not averse to a bedtime snack of elk haunch. Farther down the way I'd cut a man's tracks, another hunter heading south as I climbed east. .
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Science hopes to change events that have already occurred
Ever wish you could reach back in time and change the past? Maybe you'd like to take back an unfortunate voice mail message, or rephrase what you just said to your boss. Or perhaps you've even dreamed of tweaking the outcome of yesterday's lottery to make yourself the winner. Common sense tells us that influencing the past is impossible -- what's done is done, right? Even if it were possible, think of the mind-bending paradoxes it would create. While tinkering with the past, you might change the circumstances by which your parents met, derailing the key event that led to your birth. Such are the perils of retrocausality, the idea that the present can affect the past, and the future can affect the present. Strange as it sounds, retrocausality is perfectly permissible within the known laws of nature.
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Casino smoking rooms shock naïve Ontarians
The Ontario government announced on Tuesday that government run casinos in Windsor and Niagara Falls will be allowed to build outdoor smoking rooms in order to keep their smoking clientele happy. These self contained rooms are prohibited for bars and restaurants under the Smoke Free Ontario Act that came into force last June with much fanfare. Jim Watson, who holds the cutesy and politically correct title of Minister of Health Promotion, vigorously defended the province's move saying that unlike bars and restaurants, the primary function of casinos is gambling and not the consumption of food and beverages. Watson never did explain why gamblers who smoke are less likely to suffer adverse affects from smoking and second hand smoke than those who simply eat and drink. Perhaps one day, he will enlighten us.
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Far up the East Fork of the Bitterroot, about as close to the Continental Divide as anyone wants to hike in mid-November, I paused to catch my breath and size up the competition.Tracks in the snow suggested a large mountain lion and I had the same idea: That saddle ahead looked promising for elk. Some 100 yards back, crisp new tracks in the snow showed a bear also was on the prowl - probably looking for his bed at this late date, but surely not averse to a bedtime snack of elk haunch. Farther down the way I'd cut a man's tracks, another hunter heading south as I climbed east. .
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Science hopes to change events that have already occurred
Ever wish you could reach back in time and change the past? Maybe you'd like to take back an unfortunate voice mail message, or rephrase what you just said to your boss. Or perhaps you've even dreamed of tweaking the outcome of yesterday's lottery to make yourself the winner. Common sense tells us that influencing the past is impossible -- what's done is done, right? Even if it were possible, think of the mind-bending paradoxes it would create. While tinkering with the past, you might change the circumstances by which your parents met, derailing the key event that led to your birth. Such are the perils of retrocausality, the idea that the present can affect the past, and the future can affect the present. Strange as it sounds, retrocausality is perfectly permissible within the known laws of nature.
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Casino smoking rooms shock naïve Ontarians
The Ontario government announced on Tuesday that government run casinos in Windsor and Niagara Falls will be allowed to build outdoor smoking rooms in order to keep their smoking clientele happy. These self contained rooms are prohibited for bars and restaurants under the Smoke Free Ontario Act that came into force last June with much fanfare. Jim Watson, who holds the cutesy and politically correct title of Minister of Health Promotion, vigorously defended the province's move saying that unlike bars and restaurants, the primary function of casinos is gambling and not the consumption of food and beverages. Watson never did explain why gamblers who smoke are less likely to suffer adverse affects from smoking and second hand smoke than those who simply eat and drink. Perhaps one day, he will enlighten us.
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