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March 31, 2009
Category: Church and State
A charity is an organisation dedicated to the public benefit, one that does not seek to make profits, and that does not have political goals. So how the heck does something like the Catholic Church qualify as a charity?
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March 30, 2009
Extreme boating: explorer George Kourounis takes a leisurely punt on a lake of acid (pH ~0.5).
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March 26, 2009
Category: General
Over at Ask MetaFilter, user lizzicide wanted a system that would alert her if her car was towed. Apparently the moderators didn't rate my answer, because it's gone now. Good thing I saved it for posterity.
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March 25, 2009
Category: Art
Artist and illustrator Nate Wragg has created this wonderful twisted homage to the charming How and Why Wonder Books of his childhood. Wragg says: It's a book series that focuses on a particular aspect of science in each volume. The...
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March 24, 2009
Category: General
There's an old adage for bomb technicians - if you see them running, try to keep up. But new research suggests bolting for the exit is a poor choice of strategy in bombing events.
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March 23, 2009
Category: bad science
Last week the Independent newspaper reported on the case of Tim Nicholson, a UK executive claiming religious discrimination after losing his job because of his beliefs on climate change. Nicholson had been head of sustainability at Grainger plc, a residential...
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March 20, 2009
Like the boffins at NASA / ESA, you must learn to use gravitational fields to slingshot your rocket ship to its destination.
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March 18, 2009
Alternative museums are all the rage these days, from the million-dollar animatronics of the US Creation Museum to the quaint if ramshackle Genesis Expo in Portsmouth, UK. Lying somewhere between the two is The Museum of the Aquatic Ape...
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March 17, 2009
Category: General
The British Transport Police seem set to continue the fight against terror with their curious strategy of scaring the living hell out of everyone themselves
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March 16, 2009
Category: Art
When placed side-by-side, identical images of objects tilted and receding into the background appeared to have different angles. Why?
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