Happy New Year to our fellow lovers of life and of freedom. Live long & prosper! Rise early. Work late. Strike oil. — J. Paul

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APPETIZERS When faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.— Robert A.

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The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.— Cornelius TacitusTo have a license number of one’s automobile as low as possible is a

You will find that the state is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. — John

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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in

A readers’ survey by Nature1 showed that one in five respondents already used some form of cognition-enhancing drug. 1. Maher, Nature 452:674-675 (2008). The following