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Caught With My Pants Down
No, not like Andrew "Stuffed Shorts" Weiner. I mean literally, as in the picture below, taken while walking across the Manhattan Bridge. A guy on a bike, who I later…
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Stephen Hawking Says Heaven Fairy Story
"There is no heaven; it's a fairy story," said Stephen Hawking to The Guardian. And since the wheelchair-bound physicist is famous, and known to be clever (despite bedevilment by disease),…
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Works Of High Seriousness: Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill
Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill What a stimulating journey through the greatest works of literature, interpreted with a mind towards statecraft. Hill wants us to…
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Can Cell Phones Cause Cancer?
2015 --- Dateline, New York City. Michael Bloomberg, who after purchasing his fourth term as Mayor of Gotham, today signed into law a ban on cellphones in public. This follows…
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The Showman’s Courtship: Guest Post By Artemus Ward
Artemus Ward, who wrote this piece circa 1858, was a showman and writer who toured these great United States with his artistic exhibition, which consisted of "three moral Bares, a…
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Italian Scientists On Trial For Manslaughter After Failing To Predict Earthquake
Seven Italian geologists have been hauled before an Italian judge---whether in chains or no, we are not informed---and charged with the heinous crime of manslaughter. Specifically, these men are being…
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Proving What You Want To Believe
You can always find a way to believe anything. That "always" is strict---the magic of belief, like a card trick with a gaffed deck, can always be worked. But just…
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The Myth Of Killer Mercury: Guest Post By Willie Soon & Paul Driessen
Willie Soon has graciously allowed us to reprint his and Paul Driessen's editorial that ran in the 25 May 2011 Wall Street Journal. Dr Soon received double our normal rate…
