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Happy Birthday, Dungeons & Dragons. Hard to believe players have been throwing the dice and checking their character sheets for thirty years. And yeah, twenty-five years ago, I was a player. D&D never got to me the way chess did, but I enjoyed it.

Belgium has produced statistics which indicate that men are far more willing to have sex with their bosses than women. At least, in Belgium they are. I'm sorry, but did someone pay real money to generate this data?

The folks at the annual CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) conference in Thailand made some excellent decisions this week, including one to continue to protect the minke whale from Japan and other whaling nations, which hunted it almost to extinction once before. Bravo, CITES.