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Stream: Why The Election Won’t Matter Much: We’re Doomed
Update Stream is up and down. I've been told "nerds are working on it." So if you are having troubles, keep checking back. Today's post is at the Stream: No…
Reader Questions About Men’s Fashion
Dr. Briggs, I just reread your post "Top 10 Men's fashion rules" and it has much more meaning to me now that I am a bit older and more 'professional'…
Posted inPhilosophy
It from bit: What about God? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Editor's note: See Kurland's page for an extended version of this article, with references. 'It from bit' symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom---at…
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Canada Slipping Fast Back Into Paganism: “Doctors” Ordered To Kill
The slogan in Canada will soon be Whatever you do, don't go to the "doctor". You might not make it out alive. Yeoman Wesley Smith reports "Canada Proposes Forcing Doctors…
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Feminist Physics Begets Feminist Glaciology
Remember when we talked about feminist physics a couple of months back? We discovered that the term meant not studying how things move, but thinking about how we feel about…
Posted inStatistics
American Statistical Association Statement On Statistical Significance & P-values, With My Comments
Editorial Note: I had this originally scheduled to go Monday, but due to Stream's Creatorgate piece showing up yesterday, I delayed this by a day. I think I only have…
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Stream: #Creatorgate. Scientists Say ‘The Creator’ Designed The Human Hand, Biologists Go Ape.
Today's post is at the Stream: #Creatorgate: Scientists Say 'The Creator' Designed The Human Hand, Biologists Go Ape. Who are the most dogmatic, inflexible, reactionary, unforgiving, monomaniacal set of people…
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Religious Leaders File Brief To Support Abortion
Here's the story: "Nearly 1,300 Religious Leaders Sign Historic Brief Urging Supreme Court to Preserve a Woman's Right to [Kill Their Unborn]". Why are women so special they get the…