Sunday, February 28, 2010

Solution to the Coin Quiz

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I asked , What US coin has the highest value, according to the denomination in numbers (not words) given on it? To start off with, you need ...
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The Big Beethoven Poll (2nd attempt)

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Sorry, I completely messed up the wording for the first poll, so I cancelled it and let's try it again now. Again, this is in reference ...
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It Must be Tough to be a Schlafly

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Imagine growing up in a household where Phyllis Schlafly, that hypocritical harridan, was your mother. You'd hear things like "By ...
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

A Coin Quiz

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OK, here's a coin quiz: What US coin has the highest value, according to the denomination in numbers (not words) given on it? Yes, it is...
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More Anti-Science Stupidity from Non-Scientist

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Here is yet another "oh those nasty scientists" rant from the senior managing editor of the New English Review, Rebecca Bynum. ...
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Severin Blanchet

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Severin Blanchet was a French actor, writer, and filmmaker. He starred in the movie "Jardins en Automne" , where he played Vince...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Stanley Fish is a Moron

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Stanley Fish is a moron. Yes, I know he's a "literary theorist" and "legal scholar" and he has a Ph. D. and wrote 10...
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

My Genetic Journey (Part 2)

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About a year and a half ago, I got a kit from National Geographic's Genographic Project to determine my paternal "deep ancestry...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

My Eulogy for Kenneth Iverson

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Kenneth Iverson (1920-2004) was a computer scientist who invented the computer language APL. I was invited to speak at the Iverson memoria...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Test if You Know What You Don't Know

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One of my favorite quotes is due to the American humorist Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw): "I honestly beleave it iz better tew know...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The Vacuity of Intelligent Design

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Lawyer and ID advocate Barry Arrington has a post up at Uncommon Descent in which he says that ID is not bogus because his grandfather coul...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Update on the Rom Houben Story

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You may recall my previous discussion of the Rom Houben case. Houben is the Dutch man who has been in a coma for over 20 years, and was ...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Cornelius Hunter on Parsimony

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The creationist Cornelius Hunter has a post where he attempts to cast doubt on the evolution of placental mammals because he finds the curr...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Recursive Podcast

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In keeping with the title of this blog, you may enjoy this video of a podcaster demonstrating how to play his own podcast:
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Monday, February 08, 2010

Suzan Mazur - Perpetually Clueless

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Suzan Mazur is the "journalist" who attended a meeting on evolution, misunderstood nearly everything that was going on , and has n...
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Saturday, February 06, 2010

Cashill on Sternberg

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It's interesting to compare this screed by creepy far-right loony Jack Cashill on the Sternberg affair with this one by Ed Brayton. S...
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Friday, February 05, 2010

A Test for Intelligent Design

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Intelligent design advocates claim over and over again that their pseudoscience is just "the study of patterns in nature that are best ...
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Thursday, February 04, 2010

Meyer's Interview of Berlinski

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Here's an interview of David Berlinski by creationist Stephen Meyer, author of Signature in the Cell . It's really fascinating for ...
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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Portrait of a Jihadist

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Andrea Elliott in the New York Times has this troubling story about Omar Hammami, a college boy turned Muslim extremist. It's definit...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Sign in the Harvard Museum

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Here's a sign in the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Wouldn't it be better to say that supernatural explanations for biological...
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