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Happy 1000th Post!
This is it! The nine-hundred-ninety-ninth-plus-one post! The post whose number is a pleasing and large (relatively speaking) power of ten! The post that pushes us over the top of the…
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Can Cell Phones Cause Cancer?
2015 --- Dateline, New York City. Michael Bloomberg, who after purchasing his fourth term as Mayor of Gotham, today signed into law a ban on cellphones in public. This follows…
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The Showman’s Courtship: Guest Post By Artemus Ward
Artemus Ward, who wrote this piece circa 1858, was a showman and writer who toured these great United States with his artistic exhibition, which consisted of "three moral Bares, a…
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The Myth Of Killer Mercury: Guest Post By Willie Soon & Paul Driessen
Willie Soon has graciously allowed us to reprint his and Paul Driessen's editorial that ran in the 25 May 2011 Wall Street Journal. Dr Soon received double our normal rate…
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The Impossibility Of Minimizing Your Environmental “Impact”
I like the word impact, especially in sentences of the type, "The missile impacted on the insurgents' hideout, killing all inside." But it leaves me cold and vaguely homicidal to…
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Wisconsin Election Statistics
Much is being made of the election between Republican State Supreme Court Justice Prosser and Democrat Kloppenburg. On election night a quick count of votes was made and released immediately…
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Climate Science And Significance: Wall Street Journal Takes On Statistics
Coin Flips and Dice Rolls Doug Keenan has a must-read piece in the Wall Street Journal on the time series analysis of global temperature (Thanks to Randy, Roger, and John…
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Dear English Rioter
Dear English Rioter, I suppose it wasn't hard to learn how to fill light bulbs with ammonia (nasty stuff). But how did you bring yourself to throw that first one…