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I've spent the last half hour trying to sort out a favicon so that you can better identify The Mind Tavern in your browser tab. I am using a thinking emoji. For some odd reason, it is showing (44) in front of the site name and also a dot on the icon. Annoying! Hope to get some answers soon.

I've shifted a few things around today. A new forum section is now available, called Amazing People. You can start a thread about anyone you consider amazing, for whatever reason. Label the threads however you like. e.g. This person is amazing: Jon (admin), or Michelangelo is great, or I love...

We now have the technology to edit the code of life. Crispr Cas9 is a new method for rather accurately editing segments of your DNA., a breakthrough in modern science. Let me give a few examples of how it might be used: - You want your child to have green eyes, so you force it - You want to...

Bit of a disaster on day two. I went low carb yesterday. As has happened in the past, I ended up with a splitting headache. Had it all night too so rubbish sleep. I managed to get in bed by 11:15pm and set my alarm for 8am. But I was awake so much last night that I got up at 10:48am!! Rubbish...

I've got a slightly different angle on this topic to most people (surprise surprise)! So, are Vegans cruel? No, not due to them depriving us of all that lovely juicy meat we like to eat, which for me is one of life's big pleasures. Instead, it is due to the ethics of Vegans depriving one of...

One thing from this discussion is clear to me. We are all on the same page. We all want equality for everyone. The difficult part is how to achieve it and that is where some of our views differ.

Just to throw some perspective into the mix, my position is not that empowerment is a bad thing. You have to read what I say very carefully! Let me quote: Notice I have said two individuals with EQUAL levels of power. So my argument is NOT empowering woman = disemplowerment of men. Rather, it...

There is often lots of obfuscation of terms when it comes to this topic. When we talk about a wage gap, what is your definition for a wage gap, Doc?

Forgive the narcissism for a moment. That is why it is under the mental health section. :p I am undergoing what amounts to a gender change. This may come as a shock to some of you, but it's been a long time coming. But you can relax, it is not what you think. Instead of removing certain parts...

Where is the evidence for an illegal wage gap?

After a long wait, I finally have my results. I'm currently in possession of two early bits of data, which I will share. Firstly, the gene TAS2R38 means that I have a 51% chance of detecting certain bitter tastes. This clearly explains why I consider brussel sprouts the spawn of the devil...

Yes, I was being facetious regarding the crop circles. It seemed funny that when they were first heard of, they started cropping up (see what I did there?) with increasing regularity. The circles became patterns of circles and farmers got annoyed!

Doc, are crop circles not enough evidence?

The Bee has landed.

One of these days, this will become true. It is only a question of time before we are found. Has it already happened? Some claim it has.

I know in Christianity, prayer is a thing, and presumably God can hear your prayers. Do Muslims also pray? Hindus? This is one reason why God may be made of silicon. It must be hard to listen simultaneously to thousands of prayers, yet parallel processing with advanced computers make this...

Overpaid or over-empowered? [Only kidding]

No longer do we have the opportunity to think for ourselves. Instead, we operate within a plethora of pre-determined thought. Our buffet of perspectives is complete, no original thought left. All has been done before, and many times over. We are operating within a framework of frameworks, where...

Let me indulge you all in a little algebra... Marxists want equality, or so I understand. Look at communism, with their rectangular buildings, efficient yet austere. Equal wages, no perks (unless you are the leaders, of course). So, Marxism = equality. Yet Feminists also want empowerment for...