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Selling Fear Is A Risky—And Profitable—Business: Part I
Not a trick question: what's the difference between a risk of one in ten million and one of two in ten million? The official answer is "Not much." Though I…
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Global Warming To Cause New Crisis. What Will It Be?
Seems the Arctic ice sheet has refused to do what it was told by computer models. The models "conservatively" insisted the ice would be gone entirely by 2013, yet the…
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Aesthetics: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part X
Previous installments: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX. Remember our review of Peter Kreeft's Summa Philosophica? We did nine (of ten plus one) chapters, then I laid…
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Analysing Perceptions Of Cute Videos Of Threatened Species
Another peer-reviewed paper for you. "Tickled to Death: Analysing Public Perceptions of 'Cute' Videos of Threatened Species (Slow Lorises -- Nycticebus spp.) on Web 2.0 Sites" by K. Anne-Isola Nekaris…
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fMRI Discovers Freud, Distribution Plushies Lurking In Brain
Regular readers will know my opinion on fMRI research. Nothing but newfangled electronic phrenologic theory-discovering machines. Well, I take it all back. Yes, the new paper "A Triple Dissociation of…
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Sam Harris’s Moral Landscape Challenge: Win Big Money!
Brother Luís Dias informs us that arch-atheist Sam Harris has thrown down the silken gauntlet. Pfffssshh! Or maybe it's pfffthclunk? Because this one's stuffed full of hope---to the tune of…
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20% Of Scientists To Jump Ship Because Of Sequestration
According to Huffington Post, 20% of the country's scientists will jump on the nearest cargo ship and head for points unknown because the government slowed its rate of increase in…
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The 0.3% “Consensus”—Guest Post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
A major peer-reviewed paper by four senior researchers has exposed grave errors in an earlier paper in a new and unknown journal that had claimed a 97.1% scientific consensus that…