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Traveling Day Quiz
Off once again into the wild blue yonder. So today a quiz, inspired by the Cnet article whose over-stated title is "Researchers build DNA neural network that thinks." The piece…
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UN Nearly Makes Climate Change A Peace And Security Matter
Sorry for the cliché but Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble! Global warming is generating an "unholy brew" of vexatious weather events that threaten "international peace…
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Obama Wants Statisticians!
"Politics as done by Martians." That's Peggy Noonan's phrase, to describe President Obama's call for and use of statisticians and data miners in his re-election campaign. The hiring of such…
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Reading Spencer’s Radiation Paper; Polar Bears Flap: Scientist Under Investigation
Thanks to all the readers who have altered me to Roy Spencer and William Braswell's new paper, "On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy…
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The Absurdity Of The Budget Debate
The president makes an appearance at La Raza---which stands for The Race: which race? the race---and announces that it would be keen if he followed Woody Allen's advice and dictated…
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The Case Against Raising Taxes: Spending Drives Debt
The argument is simple: let the government raise taxes (Obama's "balanced" approach), and the government will not only spend all of this increased revenue, but will spend more than that,…
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Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Review
Short version: it stinks. Ubuntu is a version of Linux, an open-source and free operating system. I've been using various flavors of Unix for the past twenty years, and prefer…
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Interest In Penile Length Among Academics Growing
Who said Finns don't have a sense of humor? One of Finland's very own has produced the second biggest joke of the year (the first obviously being our president and…
