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Science and technology links

Two very stupid people who clearly hugely underestimated the pattern-recognition software in human brains. The school that has a maths pirate : love pieces like this. Via newredshoes . Great photos of pollution in China . About Wikipedia™ and its denizens (the comments are surprisingly good). About the online world of cyber crime . Cool graphic of missions to Mars . Long ...

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'Fringe' star John Noble celebrates weird science

... (Anna Torv). She needed Bishop and his filial caretaker to help her track down perpetrators of "fringe science" (way-out stuff like mind control, teleportation, astral projection and genetic engineering) who threaten national ... no trouble articulating those concepts when I'm performing a scene," Noble says. "A lot of the science that we delve into is not new to me — it's fascinated me for a very ...

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Antagonists and Plot

I've been discussing antagonists and plot with one of my writer-friends, which has blossomed into ideas for this post. So here are my thoughts on antagonists... 1) What is an antagonist? Technically, an antagonist is anyone or anything that opposes a protagonist and blocks the way to a desired goal. This is sometimes framed as "man against man, man against himself, or man against nature."...

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salamander saviour?

It's an interesting possibility that the disease-resistance of some species of amphibians might be usable in saving other species.

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Apparently, some school boards are asking the question:

..., who taught for six years in Rochester and now works for Aventa Learning, a for-profit online education company, said she spent about five hours a week tweaking old lesson plans and creating new ones, like an earth science curriculum that sells for $59.95. “I knew I had good lessons, so I thought, ‘Why not see what other people think of it?’ ” Ms. Michalek said. After $31,000 in sales, she has ...

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Oh the wonders of his tongue

...I don’t care. That’s not what I’m after. You know, try to be serious about it, try to be grown-up about it a little bit. Approach it, you know, not scientifically, it’s not a science, but like a conundrum — like an issue worth dealing with responsibly, attentively, carefully, where you can apply, or should apply, everything that you have in order to detect, find out what it is that it says on the ...

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'Sexiest Man': No new blood this time

... films, have dominated conversations about who's hot in Hollywood for the past year, but when it comes to choosing the sexiest man, People senior editor Galina Espinoza said it's more of an art than a science. (Lautner did not make this year's list, but the "Twilight" star is under 18.) "We essentially do a roundup of all the guys who got our hearts racing throughout the year, who were looking ...

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On prayer and science

... once again calling global warming "junk science". The only two "scientists" cited in...real phenomenon and whose quotes and articles were badly skewed and taken out...is it to her to reject science? I'm sure if I told... years of actual, peer-reviewed science about climate change, she'll ... in the editorial with actual science, and quoted my sources, which ... go through and rebut with science. If I don't get ...

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Climate Change or Changing the Scientific Method

... "scientists" were actively colluding with "science writers" in the press to spin...a researcher and professor of climate science at the University of Winnipeg, ...in opposition to the way climate science was being politicized during the mid...: Anthony Watts's meteorological focused science blog, Watts Up With That ,... list of alarmist viewpoint supporting articles to his name. (referenced skeptics) ...

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