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Astrologers See Obama Victory
Alas, our great nation is in retrograde, with the House of Koalemos (Greek god of stupidity) rising, ever rising. Dark cosmic forces have aligned---perhaps maligned is a better way to…
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Grade Inflation
Via GradeInflation.com via Mark Perry via HotAir comes this telling picture. Be sure to read the original site. Although Stuart Rojstaczer doesn't have much data from Community Colleges, he does…
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On The Murder And Death Of Classical Music
It is difficult to discover one word which adequately and non-misleadingly describes what is today called "music" and what used to go by that name a century or more ago.…
The Last Cruise Of The USS Iowa
The USS Iowa on its last trip I was aboard the SS Jeremiah O'Brien yesterday when the USS Iowa was towed from its berth up San Francisco bay and…
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From Homochirality In Amino Acids To Conquering Dinosaurs: How Journalists Report Science
Today, just a pointer to a hilarious story by Robert McHenry in The American of how a workaday paper in a chemical journal with the title Evidence for the Likely…
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Scientists Discover Women Who Lick Their Lips Are Judged More Attractive By College Men
Hot or Not? First the good news. It's completely unrelated to what follows, but it is good news. Scientists say "Aliens 'wouldn't want to eat or enslave us' says ET-hunting…
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Believers Less Vindictive Than Godless Atheists: New Research
Vengeance Is Mine The actual title of the Live Science press release was "Believers Leave Punishment to Powerful God," a story which opens with the memorable words: Believing in an…
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Why Truth Isn’t Absolute: A Defense Of Relativism — Guest Post by Luis Dias
Regular readers will recognize frequent commentor and foil Luis Dias, who today offers us his defense of relativism. As the Staford Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes, "Although relativistic lines of thought…
