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Life Isn’t Fair: Galarraga’s Imperfectly Perfect Game

The decks are awash: the tears have already reached the scuppers, and there's no sign of abatement. The output from the perpetually lachrymose has been prodigious. Even people who aren't…
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Ways Around Peer Review: viXra vs. arXiv; Plus, a Saturday Bonus!

viXra.org Which is arxiv.org backwards. From our pal LuboÅ¡ Motl, comes a (non-endorsed) introduction to a competitor of arxiv.org, the invitation-only "preprint" server. A "preprint" is a paper that has…
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Attention Lawyers: New Way To Sue Over Global Warming

Remember old Ned Comer? Old Ned was a good old boy who got walloped by Hurricane Katrina. Yes, sir, it rained on old Ned and he did get wet. He…
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Ottawa Soccer League: Score Too High, You Lose

Ottawa has a new rule on the books for kids playing league soccer. Any team that goes ahead by more than five goals loses. Yes, dear reader, your eyes do…
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You Have To Die Of Something: Cancer Deaths to Double

The morning headline is designed to make you nervous: Cancer deaths to double by 2030: study. "My God!," you reason to yourself before the coffee hits the bloodstream, "That means…
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New Term For “Brights” Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins

A New Name The "brights" are at it again. What is a "bright"? It is not, as is by now well known to contemporary thinkers, the opposite of a "dim",…
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    Rhetocrates, Quite right.

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