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Antiprimes
This post originally ran 31 August 2009. Everybody knows that a prime number is one which can only be evenly divided by itself and 1. Thus, for example, 13 is…
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The Mathematics Of Santa Claus’ Present Delivery System
It's the time of year when people begin asking the very pertinent question: How does Santa Claus do it? How does he get all those presents to all those kids…
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The Week In Doom — Scottish Gingerbread Person Edition
Item From the London Times, a quotation from the print edition, 30 November this year, the "arts" section, page 4, on a PR piece about some screen thot who appeared…
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Bloggy Details
Subscribe Been getting loads of emails---okay, a few---all right, one---on how to receive the daily posts, steaming hot, right in your Inbox. That's easy! Go to the bottom of the…
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Woman Warriors Are Like Pizza Bagels
See the picture atop the post (best seen at the homepage)? It's what the New York Times used to tout women as warriors. Now I am a man at least…
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Gene Editing: What Could Go Wrong?
Headline: Big Tongues and Extra Vertebrae: The Unintended Consequences of Animal Gene Editing: Unintended consequences have included enlarged rabbit tongues and extra pig vertebrae, as bioethicists warn of hubris Scientists…
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Probability Of Abiogenesis? There Isn’t One
Remember before when we agreed nothing has a probability? Bully. So if no thing has a probability, neither does abiogenesis, since abiogenesis is a thing. Since abiogenesis is a thing…
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Bishop Barron and Ben Shapiro Chat About Salvation
Atheists reject Christ in the sense that they deny Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead because he is God. Atheists also therefore reject the idea of eternal life…
