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String Theory Confirmed By Airline
String theory begins by telling its audience that most of nature remains hidden from us in tiny, curled up dimensions of space. You can't see them, but they're there. I…
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Air Force Forced To Drops Ethics From Nuclear Weapons Ethics Training
The Center for Inquiry, that group of ex-CSICOP members turned rogue skeptics, has condemned---condemned!---the United States Air Force for teaching Just War theory in its Nuclear War Ethics course. This…
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Updates
Beavering Away Will be engaged busily this week; posts may become sporadic, confused, nonsensical. More then usually, I mean. Now is the chance to send in a Guest Post (200…
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Traveling Day Quiz
Off once again into the wild blue yonder. So today a quiz, inspired by the Cnet article whose over-stated title is "Researchers build DNA neural network that thinks." The piece…
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UN Nearly Makes Climate Change A Peace And Security Matter
Sorry for the cliché but Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble! Global warming is generating an "unholy brew" of vexatious weather events that threaten "international peace…
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Obama Wants Statisticians!
"Politics as done by Martians." That's Peggy Noonan's phrase, to describe President Obama's call for and use of statisticians and data miners in his re-election campaign. The hiring of such…
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Reading Spencer’s Radiation Paper; Polar Bears Flap: Scientist Under Investigation
Thanks to all the readers who have altered me to Roy Spencer and William Braswell's new paper, "On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy…
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The Absurdity Of The Budget Debate
The president makes an appearance at La Raza---which stands for The Race: which race? the race---and announces that it would be keen if he followed Woody Allen's advice and dictated…