The New Ballad of Chicken Little
Once upon a day, so bright and fine Walked Chicken B. Little. A scientist, mind! "The sky is blue," he said, "but I am not." "For I know much, quite…
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One Out Of Four, Most Used Statistic
Were you aware, and did you know, that one out of four Americans: are obese (a rate matched by their dogs) will struggle with hunger will contract a STD will,…
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Welcome Back BYTE!
BYTE is back! It was the winter of 1979. Allen Ordway, Brian Grenke and me sat at a table in the Algebra teacher's room. We were typing in a Basic…
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Appeals Court Confirms TSA X-Ray Strip Search Validity
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has confirmed that criminals and suspected criminals have more rights and more protections under the Fourth Amendment than do citizens who…
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Some Common Global Warming Fallacies
The level of debate on global warming is shriekingly poor. Not that I have any hope of convincing the world to reject bad logic, but here are some of the…
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The Horrible Dangers Of Third-Hand Smoke
All countries have been known to periodically lose their minds. France in 1789 banned religion by the point of a blade, Russia in 1917 banned freedom by the barrel of…
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California Requires LGBT History In Textbooks; The Disabled, Too
The rulers of the State of California are very unhappy with their subjects and their backward and old fashioned ideas; and, darn it, the rulers are just not going to…
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The Economic Fallacy, Greenpeace, David Suzuki, And Global Warming
"You can't believe what that guy says. He research was funded by Greenpeace!" The person uttering this sentence has committed the economic fallacy, which is the belief that the truth…
