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Dear Dr. Lou,
What would you say to a late-twenties Buffy fan who was curious about starting Firefly?

I believe that “Firefly” occupies a controversial place in the “Buffyverse”. Wait, I think they call it the “Buffysphere”. Or is it the “Buffyzone”? As a huge Buffy fan, I have floated on the periphery of [...]

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Dear Dr. Lou,
Mac or PC?

I know there has always been talk and jokes about the differences between PC users and Mac users. Last month Mindset Media actually released results of a survey outlining differences between Mac and PC users. The study was given to 7,500 people, and the results depict Mac users [...]

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The NY Times recently published some new phrases and buzz words by Grant Barrett, who is a co-host of the public radio show “A Way With Words” and a lexicographer. Some of the words are:
bacn n.
Impersonal e-mail messages that are nearly as annoying as spam but that you have chosen to receive: alerts, newsletters, automated [...]

Year in Pink: Docta Edition

Dr. Lou’s Top 10 Medical Stories of 2007

Drug that Might Give You a Heart Attack… Avandia.
In previous years, it was hormone replacement therapy then Vioxx. This year, it’s the diabetes medication Avandia. In its 6/14/07 issue, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article that looked at data pooled from 42 [...]

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*image by mjkmjk @ flickr
Dear Dr. Lou: With all the elves, reindeer and idle time he’s got on his lap, do you think Santa could be a furry?
At first I thought I didn’t know what a “furry” is. I thought a quick google search would clear things up. As usual, after a few [...]

Ask Dr. Lou

For the 2nd installment of Ask Dr. Lou, we asked him not to do any back ground research into the nature of this video before answering his question. BE WARNED readers, while the video here is fine, doing any further digging will take you into the most NSFW territory you have ever been in. Furthermore, [...]