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Best Drinking Songs?
The results of the Theme Song post are below. Best drinking songs? How about this? I mean The Perfect Fool's part, Ed "Fire Chief" Wynn's bit. Don't you dare say…
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10 Misunderstood Scientific Ideas
Friday, time to relax. From reader Ken Steele comes a link to io9's "10 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing" which will be fun to peruse. Can…
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Climate Change Summer Camp!
"The National Park Service (NPS) is spending $140,368 to fly 10 students to Sydney, Australia so they can experience a 'climate change journey.'...The grant [which supports this odyssey] also includes…
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What I Have Learned From Global Warming: Contest Winner Essays
Two of the essays from the winners of the Rename Global Warming Contest are in! A big hand from all, please. More are to come---when the winners send them in!…
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Making Gay Okay Reviewed. Part I, The Acts
Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything, by Robert R. Reilly (Ignatius Press: sample chapter). It's common in medicine to track men who have (or who simulate)…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: What’s God Like?
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. If you…
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Winners Announced In The Rename “Global Warming” Contest!
On 17 July we started the Rename "Global Warming" Contest. This produced 66 entries, which is a record for contests here. Thanks to everybody who participated. I think we've done…
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Another Academic Calls For Shorter People To Battle Global Warming
Academic philosopher S Matthew Liao (NYU) and pals are coming to get you. They want to monkey with your genes, kill your unwanted, inject growth-stunting hormones into your womb, poison…