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Certified Hot!
No, not me, likely as that would be, but the slot machines at the Soaring Eagle Casinos. Thanks to the---can we call it anything else?---hot tip from long-time reader BillB,…
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The Great Global Warming Blunder by Roy W. Spencer
The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists by Roy W. Spencer This book was given to me for review by the publisher. Clouds…
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Kids Who Play Video Games Take Longer To Fall Asleep Than Those Who Sit Quietly
This is a follow-up to the post Shocking Research: Kids Who Play Games, Watch TV, Text Don’t Read And Do Poorly At School. The original New York Times article quoted…
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What Do You Have To Be Thankful For? Don Alejo Garza
Not to be too gloomy on a day such as this, but take a gander at this cross of death, first published in Reforma, and copied on the site Borderland…
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Shocking Research: Kids Who Play Games, Watch TV, Text Don’t Read And Do Poorly At School
The New York Times has come to the conclusion that watching television and playing video games is not conducive to reading. Further, preliminary evidence suggests that chatting on cell phones,…
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Tolkien Wants A King, Cheating With Statistics
Cheating With Statistics Reader Matt Lewis points us to Planet Moron, to an article which tears apart a statistical argument used by the Washington Post, an argument which sought to…
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Peer Review Fails? Sympathetic Priest? What’s Going On Here?
Duke Scores Another Own Goal According to Science, Duke University oncologist Anil Potti quit after being caught cheating: Anil Potti had published papers in prominent journals identifying gene signatures in…
