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Predictions For 2011: Submit Yours Today!
Since everybody remembers what Yogi Berra said about this hoary subject, we can skip it. Still, we can't help but wonder with Calvin, where are all the rocket ships…
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Nanodots, Kindles, And The Future Of E-Books
US News and World Report reprinted a press release from the National Science Foundation which announced that, "Nanodots Breakthrough May Lead to 'A Library on One Chip'." A researcher at…
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Scientists Too Sure Of Themselves: Except, Of Course, Climatologists And Neuroscientists
Since most of us are ill inclined to labor until Monday next, I don't want to post anything of momentous importance until then---accepting, as we must, that all that appears…
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Regifting Robin, Cute Christmas Puzzle
Since it is that festive time of year, we have a fun little puzzle recommended to me by my aunt. Apparently, this is going around via an email chain, stumping people all over the country. Try and then come back here after—but only after—you have figured out the solution, which I provide below.
DO NOT LOOK BELOW THIS LINE!
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Denis Dutton RIP? Arts & Letters Daily Too?
The shock to the loyal readers of Arts & Letters Daily must have been as great as mine, when I clicked and saw this (early Tuesday morning in Taipei, 28…
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What Will They Protest Now? Guest Post by G. Willikers
'G. Willikers' is an old friend of mine and another long-time higher education insider. I tend to think old G is right, and that those schools who have banned ROTC…
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Global Warming Superheroes
"Holy CO2, Gaia Girl! It's the evil Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley! We have to stop him before he goes all Lordly on us!" "Gosh, you're right Flash…
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Taipei Cabbies And Food
So we were in a cab and the driver waits to hear Where to? News Years street, we say. Why? the driver asks. To So and So's famous place for…
