Discover magazine. A little more easily digestible (content wise) for the layperson's scientific appetite. Though I have loved watching Alan Alda on the Scientific American PBS series.
Starring in a movie directed by Uwe Boll or Lars Von Trier?
One can't really cuddle a cow though they are often generous with their milk. Still ... horses win by their intelligence and their beauty.
For a law or governmental policy you distinctly disagree with: write a letter to members of the government or commit an act of nonviolent civil disobedience to protest the law/policy?
I don't make enough income to bother and make an effort to hide away it from the IRS. 1 job = one w2 form = declaring all of my income.
Eating one marshmallow now (and no possibility of a second marshmallow) or waiting a determined bit of time (in restraint) so one can possible get a second marshmallow and thusly get the chance of eating two marshmallows?