Category: Bibliophilia
Three book-related items up today: First, a hearty congratulations to Brian Switek, whose book, now titled Written In Stone, is set to be published next fall! If the sample chapters I saw a few months back are any indication, Brian's...
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Category: Video
In the next movie, we will find out who was James T. Kirk's real father. I mean, the emperor Tiberius was born Tiberius Claudius Nero; how much more obvious could it get? (I'm reading and commenting upon a friend's PhD...
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Category: Popularization
Bora has the latest on ScienceOnline2010: The main event - the actual sessions of the conference - will be held, like last two years, in the beautiful building of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society (and publisher of American Scientist)....
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Category: Pseudoscience
What do we call the phenomenon that "every creationist movie is obligated to lie to some scientist somewhere to get their words on tape"?
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Category: Social Events
The Boston Skeptics will be having a meeting tomorrow, 15 September, to hear a presentation by Dr. Rachael Dunlop, Australian science and critical-thinking advocate....
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