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Roger Kimball’s Challenge
The famous writer Roger Kimball has issued a challenge: Name the silliest argument to be offered by a serious academic in the last 25 years and to be taken up…
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Lizards all male climate change club
Nature magazine reports this headline: Condemned to single-sex life by climate change. They are talking about a species of lizards called tuatara that live "on about 30 small islands in…
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CONTEST: Preliminary Discussion of the “Best Internet Conspiracy Theory”
This is the first posting preliminary to the announcement of an Official Contest to find the Best Internet Conspiracy Theory. The Contest will be officially announced in about one week.…
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San Francisco mandatory carbon-footprint reduction program begins
Mayor Gavin Newsom announced that San Francisco's mandatory carbon-footprint reduction program will begin as scheduled on the first of March. "There never was a problem as serious as global warming…
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The Time Is Now For It To Be Now. Again.
What's Up? Time for our biannual update, dear readers. My forays into this new thing called "video" have, at long last, begun. It took me so long because I do…
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I’m No Longer At Cornell
I got fired about a month ago. This would ordinarily fall under the categories, "About time" or "So?", and thus it is not worth mentioning. Except for this. I had…
Willie Soon & I Are On An Internet Radio Show Today Celebrating Earth Day: Update
Gaia herself was reportedly besides herself with excitement when she heard Willie Soon and I were to be interviewed on The Yaron Brook Show today. You can tune in to…
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800 gram balls: Key words in my log files
Every now and then I have a glance at my log files to see what kinds of key words people type into sites like Google and who are subsequently directed…