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Date: September 14th, 2008

This isn’t The Onion?

14 September, 2008 (04:54) | Antiscience, Journalism, Other science | 4 comments

Oh, wait. It’s just the time-honored (sorry, honoured) tradition of writing a headline that has the opposite implication than the actual story.
Call for creationism in science
Professor Michael Reiss says that if pupils have strongly-held beliefs about creationism these should be explored.
Rather than dismissing creationism as a “misconception”, he says it should be seen [...]

Obvious to the Most Casual Observer

14 September, 2008 (04:54) | Politics | 1 comment

Spot the Logical Fallacy
While I was watching the political convention last week (and the week before as well, actually), it astounded me at how often the speakers would resort to obvious logical fallacies. I counted five false dichotomies and four straw men within the Sarah Palin speech alone. Now, just to not be [...]

Hi-Tech Food

14 September, 2008 (04:54) | Food, Physics, Silly |

Laser pizza cutter
I’ll bet the slices are all the same size, but it’s disappointing that the pieces still stick to each other.
Print me some toast. The scan-toaster.
The toaster utilizes a network of toasting “modules” — hot wires that rotate within a 30 degree radius — that burn the image or text you [...]

 

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