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• A certain film just lost its engineer demographic...

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 733
  NASA debunks 2012 conspiracy theories
  8 hours ago

• Gnomedex talk, now with audio

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 703
  Back in August, I have a talk at Gnomedex, a conference about the intersection of technology and people. It’s thrown by my old buddy Chris Pirillo. My talk was on skepticism, and I posted some video from it a month ago. However, the audio quality wasn’t great. The good news is Chris posted the official stream ...
  19 hours ago

• Are We Alone, 2012 repeat

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 703
  The "Are We Alone" SETI podcast this week is a repeat from August, but in case you missed it the topic is 2012 and other Hollywood movies where science is abused, and I talk about the real ways the world might end. Listen before going to see the movie!
  2 days ago

• I really need to unsubscribe from Debunking Christianity

  
  if i were a bell, i'd ring. — Authority: 124
  Cause every other day theres some ridiculous post I feel like I have to respond to. Todays follows up on a line John Loftus has been in love with lately: that Christianity reinvents itself for each new generation (and that this somehow discredits it). My favorite part is this: after "debunking" the notion that ...
  2 days ago

• The myth about government health care

  
  Blogging Blue — Authority: 543
  One common conservative talking point posits that a government-run health care system would lead to a rationing of care, as was suggested in an editorial in Investors Business Daily , which used world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking as “proof” of their point: People such as scientist Stephen Hawking ...
  3 days ago

• All Things Anna Nicole Smith – Latest Papers Filed in Multiple Overlapping Cases.

  
  Rose speaks - Celebrity and High Profile Trials — Authority: 127
  In South Carolina where the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith is suing Ford Shelley and G. Ben Thompson in anticipation that the court will allow the adding of Gina Thompson Shelley, Gaither Thompson II, Melody Thompson and Susan M Brown, Ben Thompson has now turned in an affidavit supporting Brown’s release from that ...
  3 days ago

• With a Wink Over His Shoulder and a Smile as he Leaves, John O’Quinn Legend and his Law Firm is Left for History Books.

  
  Rose speaks - Celebrity and High Profile Trials — Authority: 127
  For Such a complex man who won at any cost, especially if it became personal for him, as in the Howard K. Stern and L. Lin Wood situation involving the late Anna Nicole Smith and overlapping lawsuits, that era comes to an end and is for history books to decide.In the end, John O’Quinn left [...]
  1 week ago

• When antiscience kills: dowsing edition

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 703
  I am no fan of pseudoscience, as you may have guessed. Dowsing is a practice that falls squarely in that field. It’s the idea that you can detect an object — usually water, but sometimes gold, or people, or whatever — using a y-shaped branch, or copper tubes, or some other simple device. Dowsers never really ...
  1 week ago

• Why didnt dinosaurs evolve again after the Big Bang?

  
  Paul Smith's Blog — Authority: 117
  While going through my logs last month I came across a rather interesting search query that somebody used to find my blog. why didnt dinosaurs evolve again after the big bang After a little chuckle I carried on, however I did jot it down for future use. I suppose fundamentally it represents the terrible truth ...
  1 week ago

• The John O’Quinn Law Firm is to be Dissolved According to Will Filed Friday, October 30, 2009.

  
  Rose speaks - Celebrity and High Profile Trials — Authority: 127
  The Texas Lawyer Web site today said that, “John M. O’Quinn left his personal property — except for his vast car collection owned by Classy Classic Cars Ltd. — to his charitable trust, the John M. O’Quinn Foundation.”In a will O’Quinn signed in 2008 that has been filed for probate in Harris County, ...
  1 week ago

• Catching up on Howard K. Stern-Kapoor-Eroshevich and new “old pals” John J. Nazarian’s Insights

  
  Rose speaks - Celebrity and High Profile Trials — Authority: 127
  After a brief blogging break I am back…I was involved with the pre-lim of Howard K. Stern, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Kapoor, all of these people are being represented by some of the best criminal defense attorneys in the United States. Steve Sadow for me has been a sleeper, this guy is nothing but [...]
  1 week ago

• Debunking The Reverse Mortgage Myths

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 158
  A reverse mortgage is a government sponsored product for seniors 62 and over to stay in their homes and improve cash flow. Reverse mortgages have gained.
  1 week ago

• How does racism hurt white people?

  
  Restructure! — Authority: 499
  Question: How does racism hurt white people? Answers: Racism sharply reduces white people’s chance opportunities in life to acquire new knowledge or new perspectives from intelligent or wise people. * Racism causes white people to overestimate their abilities and to underestimate their own weaknesses. It ...
  1 week ago

• Houdini escapes skeptics on Halloween

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 703
  On Halloween, Justin Robert Young and my friend Andrew Mayne tried to raise the spirit of Harry Houdini in a seance at the James Randi Educational Foundation HQ in Florida. The event was live on the intertubez and and the recorded stream is on UStream . The whole thing is over an hour long, but well worth your ...
  1 week ago

• Stupid Ancient Greeks!

  
  if i were a bell, i'd ring. — Authority: 124
  THIS is the world the ancient Greeks believed existed. Notice the geo-centrism! And Im supposed to accept their philosophy? If the authors cannot get this right I have no reason to accept anything else they said just because they said it. Q.E.D. My claim is that there isnt anything in Greek philosophy worth listening ...
  1 week ago

• Deficits as far as the eye can see--whats the story?

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 118
  Let me tell you a story of the passage of time, the passage of tax cuts, and who really cares about deficits or the impact of tax cuts or deficits on the middle class. Back in 2001,  Bush and the Republican controlled Senate and House passed a huge tax cut, purportedly targeted at middle income Americans.  ...
  1 week ago

• People of colour are not a story of suffering . . . or resistance.

  
  Restructure! — Authority: 499
  We are multifaceted. And stories in which we neither suffer nor resist are just as authentic. They are a part of our daily lives. (Click on “View subtitles” to turn on the subtitles.) Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story (TED Talks) : I’m a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Denial Machine (2007)

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 540
  Dandelion Salad40:42 more about “The Denial Machine“, posted with vodpodIn the past few years, a hurricane has engulfed the debate about global warming. This scientific issue has become a rhetorical firestorm with science pitted against spin and inflammatory words on both sides. This documentary shows how fossil ...
  2 weeks ago

• Anna Nicole Smith’s Estate adds G. Ben Thompson’s Lawyer Susan Brown to S. C. Lawsuit

  
  Rose speaks - Celebrity and High Profile Trials — Authority: 127
  Here are the newest papers filed yesterday and today in the federal court for South Carolina adding Gaither Thompson II, Gina and Melodie as family members of Ford Shelley and G. Ben Thompson as defendants replacing the Doe defendants previously listed.The Estate for Anna Nicole Smith also is adding Susan Brown, one ...
  2 weeks ago

• Biology and math do not explain why there are few women in computer science.

  
  Restructure! — Authority: 499
  Slideshow by Terri Oda : Click on the play button to advance to the next slide. (via Geek Feminism )
  2 weeks ago

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