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What Do You Have To Be Thankful For? Don Alejo Garza
Not to be too gloomy on a day such as this, but take a gander at this cross of death, first published in Reforma, and copied on the site Borderland…
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Shocking Research: Kids Who Play Games, Watch TV, Text Don’t Read And Do Poorly At School
The New York Times has come to the conclusion that watching television and playing video games is not conducive to reading. Further, preliminary evidence suggests that chatting on cell phones,…
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Tolkien Wants A King, Cheating With Statistics
Cheating With Statistics Reader Matt Lewis points us to Planet Moron, to an article which tears apart a statistical argument used by the Washington Post, an argument which sought to…
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Peer Review Fails? Sympathetic Priest? What’s Going On Here?
Duke Scores Another Own Goal According to Science, Duke University oncologist Anil Potti quit after being caught cheating: Anil Potti had published papers in prominent journals identifying gene signatures in…
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The Government Loves You And Wants You To Stop Smoking
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking…
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New Expert Panel To Pick Experts For Expert Panels: Lessons From The TSA
But climate change experts opposed to [Prime minister Julia Gillard's idea of creating a citizens panel to discuss climate change] were saying 'these are citizens, they are not experts on…
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TSA Full-Body Scans Would Not Pass Hospital IRB Reviews
Zzzzaapp! Some angry photons have just been blasted off toward your body, scouting for "contraband." In the process of the search, these energetic massless particles will kick the crap out…
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College Students More Loquacious Than Erudite: Vocabulary Test Results
The results of the Great Vocabulary Test of 2010 are in. Two weeks ago, in this thread, after announcing my surprise that no student in any of my classes knew…