{"id":1078,"date":"2008-10-04T13:11:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T18:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2008-10-04T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T18:11:29","slug":"on-sex-and-intelligent-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/04\/on-sex-and-intelligent-life","title":{"rendered":"on sex and intelligent life"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Sex is for recreation; leave reproduction to the professionals.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Steptoe\">Patrick Steptoe<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This from reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/intelligentlife\/ILscreen.html\">Intelligent Life<\/a>, published by The Economist. Their tagline &#8220;Lifestyle with Substance&#8221; simply rocks. Picked it up in Amsterdam, and I hope their subscriptions reach my home (reminds me of The New Yorker, just quarterly). 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Their tagline &#8220;Lifestyle with Substance&#8221; simply rocks. Picked it up in Amsterdam, and I hope their subscriptions reach my home (reminds me of The New Yorker, just quarterly). 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