In her ruling Buchanan said only that she "remains convinced that the application stated 'specific and articulable' facts sufficient to issue" the order.

And as Adam Gopnik discusses in his piece in the current issue, the Internet has freed us of the obligation to retain facts; it forms part of our "extended mind."

According to researchers writing in a 2009 issue of AIDS Patient Care and STDs, the prophylactic effect of male circumcision is owed to the following physical facts.