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Happy New Year!
An oldie, but a goody. Better to start the new year smiling.
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The Great Far East Mission of 2009
I'm winging my way---squeezed into a seat the size of shoebox---to the Far East. Taiwan, specifically; Formosa as was. My mission there is highly classified and secret. I'll be on…
Nobel prize in medicine here I come!
From Sense about Science comes Celebrities and Science Review 2008. This article in The Independent explains it in more detail (originally linked on Instapundit). The Sense about Science report looks…
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People with nothing to do will find something to do
Universities have are a long way from what Aristotle had in mind. Full documentation here. At least download and read the letters the University sent to Sampson. Just hilarious.
(Ex-Army Captain) Kyle Smith gets his statistics right
Mull this one carefully. Say a mammogram is 90 percent accurate at spotting patients with breast cancer, and 93 percent accurate at spotting those without breast cancer. Breast cancer afflicts…
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Next time you drive by Janovic Plaza…
It's watered down, but the music is good, too. Thanks, Doc Searls!
Civil rights group files suit against TBS network to stop showing A Christmas Story
Controversial civil rights group ISEF yesterday filed suit in federal court against Turner Broadcasting and its cable affiliate TBS to cease airing the movie A Christmas Story. For several years,…
Merry Federally Recognized Holiday of December 25th That Shall Remain Nameless!
I remember when I was a kid living on the outskirts of Detroit, in Taylor in the early 1970s, in early December, aching for snow so badly that it hurt.…
