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The Omnibrain is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, The Omnibrain is a real graduate student at a real school somewhere in the continental United States - or maybe Europe.
OmniBrain is now Of Two Minds!
Category: Space
According to the LA Times:NASA said Wednesday that it had found no evidence that any of its astronauts ever flew while inebriated, or even showed up for work impaired, as was recently alleged by an outside investigative panel. Bull Shit. Tang is disgusting without Vodka....
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Category: Philosophy of Science
Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy writes eloquently on debating pseudoscientists: Debunking fringe theories is usually not trivial. For example, Richard Hoagland has been making his (mistaken) claims about Mars for literally decades. The breadth and depth of his claims is astonishing! It would take forever to debunk everything he says,...
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 11:24 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Webcomics
Via Tick Tock Talk: The IQ brain clock....
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Category: Space
We all know that the full moon turns you into a werewolf or just plain stark raving mad. Well at least according to this website: The full moon is credited for a lycanthropic man's moonlight metamorphosis into a dangerous howling beast - the werewolf (in North American cultures, or a...
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Category: Video
Entertaining video about why the 'design' of the universe is Unintelligent.
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Category: Space
What would you talk about with an astronaut at the pub? (assuming you've had a few to many). Some of us New Scientist staffers were idly wondering about the universe in the pub last night - arguing about the "speed of dark" (as opposed to the speed of light) for...
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