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Worst Invention Of All Time?
Your help is urgently needed to decide what is the worst invention of all time. Any man-made item, and only man-made items, are eligible. Rocks, for instance, no matter to…
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How Paranormal Research Differs From Normal Research
Cornell's Daryl Bem case is instructive. He's an academic who has published several notable peer-reviewed articles which claim that (several different versions of) ESP is real. Trouble is, despite the…
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The Science In The Mercury Report By Florida’s DEP — Guest Post By Willie Soon
Our friend Willie Soon wrote this editorial in response to this letter from the Florida DEP. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is here. As a scientist who has spent…
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The Difference Between Technical And Plain English Correlation
Since the subject has come up so often, today a note on the words correlated and correlation. They have technical definitions and plain English meanings. The two definitions overlap but…
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Gloom, Despair, Email Spoofing, And Kahan’s Science Literacy Paper
Somebody spoofed my Yahoo email address which I use for ordering, registrations and the like. Sent hundreds of emails to my contact list yesterday. Now I ordinarily run Linux, which…
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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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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.…
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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…