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Gloom, Despair, Email Spoofing, And Kahan’s Science Literacy Paper

Somebody spoofed my Yahoo email address which I use for ordering, registrations and the like. Sent hundreds of emails to my contact list yesterday. Now I ordinarily run Linux, which…

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Astrologers See Obama Victory

Alas, our great nation is in retrograde, with the House of Koalemos (Greek god of stupidity) rising, ever rising. Dark cosmic forces have aligned---perhaps maligned is a better way to…

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On The Murder And Death Of Classical Music

It is difficult to discover one word which adequately and non-misleadingly describes what is today called "music" and what used to go by that name a century or more ago.…

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Scientists Discover Women Who Lick Their Lips Are Judged More Attractive By College Men

Hot or Not? First the good news. It's completely unrelated to what follows, but it is good news. Scientists say "Aliens 'wouldn't want to eat or enslave us' says ET-hunting…

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Believers Less Vindictive Than Godless Atheists: New Research

Vengeance Is Mine The actual title of the Live Science press release was "Believers Leave Punishment to Powerful God," a story which opens with the memorable words: Believing in an…

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Interest In On-Line Statistics Courses?

You might have heard what happened to when Stanford professor Andrew Ng put his machine learning (a practical kind of statistical modeling) on line. He expected mild interest. One hundred…

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Scientific Truths Are Not Better Truths Than Just-Plain Truths

One of the key fallacies of scientism, in the sense of being the most destructive to common sense and personal wellbeing, is to suppose that any theory put forth in…

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What Organic Boors, Swedish Pronouns, And The Exorcist Have In Common

Not much, except to demonstrate that the natural state of modernity is something closely resembling mass lunacy. To explain. Swedish Pronouns Via Sam Schulman â€(Twitter: @Sam_Schulman) we infer that 1984…

C-Marie on Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?June 4, 2026
Hi Matt, Love your writings. Some I do not understand, but then, am on the sunnyside up of 82 1/2…
Jim Fedako on Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?June 4, 2026
Whatever schedule keeps you posting is fine by me. As far as email notifications, I don’t always get them so…
Uncle Mike on Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?June 4, 2026
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Blaine Wieland on Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?June 4, 2026
Dr.Briggs, I'm a long-time subscriber. (Years and years.) What I have always liked is that you write because you have…
Tars Tarkas on Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?June 4, 2026
How about a monthly or bi-weekly podcast? The Z-Man had this and it rounded out his written articles. Many of…