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Bernie Madoff To Join Peter Gleick’s Pacific Institute: Work-Release Program

Perhaps we should file this under Nobody Saw This Coming. Here is a (second) press release issued in the dead of night from the Pacific Institute. Tip o' the hat…

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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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The Last Cruise Of The USS Iowa

The USS Iowa on its last trip I was aboard the SS Jeremiah O'Brien yesterday when the USS Iowa was towed from its berth up San Francisco bay and…

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From Homochirality In Amino Acids To Conquering Dinosaurs: How Journalists Report Science

Today, just a pointer to a hilarious story by Robert McHenry in The American of how a workaday paper in a chemical journal with the title Evidence for the Likely…

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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…

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Interest In On-Line Statistics Courses?

You might have heard what happened to when Stanford professor Andrew Ng put his machine learning (a practical kind of statistical modeling) on line. He expected mild interest. One hundred…

Phil R on Use The Tools The Left Created Against ThemSeptember 11, 2025
spudjr60, I am in now way calling for or condoning violence but blind trust in the goodness of others in…
spudjr60 on Use The Tools The Left Created Against ThemSeptember 11, 2025
The Gospel reading for today is Love your enemies It is really hard to love Democrat politicians today; but as…
Michael Dowd on Use The Tools The Left Created Against ThemSeptember 11, 2025
Left and right is a false dichotomy. The real dichotomy is the conflict between two systems of government: one that…
McChuck on The Various Solutions To Black Crime AnalyzedSeptember 11, 2025
@hudbwu - That's precisely what Africans are. We can deal with them by returning them to their homeland, where their…
hudbwu on The Various Solutions To Black Crime AnalyzedSeptember 11, 2025
> Free, compulsory trips to any African country of choice. Really? You bread an out-of-control ethnicity without a tradition of…