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David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher.
Benjamin Cohen is an Asst. Professor of Science, Tech., and Society at the University of Virginia. He studies the place of S & T in environmental history, policy, and ethics. He also writes other stuff.
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This I know to be true...
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Posted on: July 12, 2007 11:57 AM, by David Ng
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Nights of Cabiria is an effecting, amazing, superlative film.
Posted by: BRC | July 12, 2007 12:31 PM
Rare are the rains of Timbuktu?
Posted by: Timon | July 12, 2007 2:49 PM
Oswald did it.
Posted by: pshaw | September 4, 2007 4:27 PM
Gravity's always waiting.
Posted by: Monado | September 4, 2007 11:19 PM
Another one for "The Truth"
There are currently no possible methods for the re-conversion of thermal energy back into any other forms of energy. Thus the universe is heading towards eventual heat-death where there is no matter and no other energy but that which is thermal!
Posted by: Alexander Bolingbroke | September 20, 2007 5:08 AM
Reality can neither be explained nor described it can merely be titled. A string of something's titles' does not qualify as explanation not description. My computer's monitor is not a monitor. Monitor is a title given to describe an observation so you and I may both understand to what I am referring. A monitor in not a monitor, it is what it is and words cannot encapsulate that.
Posted by: Irrelevant | September 20, 2007 9:33 PM
Gin is better than whiskey. Most of the time.
Posted by: Gary Sharpe | October 1, 2007 1:24 PM
for "The Truth"
Beer is better than whiskey or gin.
Posted by: Francesca Davis | October 2, 2007 12:06 AM
Humans are Primates.
Posted by: Ryan Somma | October 24, 2007 10:08 AM
Edited for simplicity's sake:
Humans are Apes.
Posted by: Ryan Somma | October 24, 2007 1:41 PM
SUV's are decidedly not stupid in Colorado, Wyoming or vast stretches of Utah. Oh, and for above, Beer IS better than Gin or Whiskey, for a given range of beer.
Posted by: Mark Reardon | October 25, 2007 4:58 PM
What is disorder anyway? I don't think real disorder exists. I think disorder is just a different kind of order that we don't understand (yet). Like when we look at constellations, we see a pattern. But looking from a different point in space, they fall out of that pattern. Maybe we see disorder because we're not looking in the right direction.
Posted by: Churmy | October 27, 2007 12:47 PM
Men and Women are not equal. Men are not equal to other men. Similarly for women. But, everyone has there own strengths and weaknesses. When we contribute our strengths (and not our weaknesses), balance and the best outcome is achieved.
Why the "politically correct" crowd (in North America) can't see this is beyond me.
Posted by: Reid | December 9, 2007 10:24 PM
Global Warming is real but it is also not entirely caused by us. It is an inevitable occurrence as part of a cycle but DEFINITELY has been very much sped up by human existence and error.
Posted by: knottylindsi | December 15, 2007 3:04 PM
Dudes, someone totally forgot to mention cannabis in the truth. ;)
Posted by: bitmonk | January 25, 2008 6:35 AM
OOOOOH, oooh. Howabout simply "the war on drugs". Let's just say, I mean, c'mon, perhaps that the UN Millenium Goals could be achieved with the world drug war budget maybe ten times over? ;)
Posted by: bitmonk | January 25, 2008 6:36 AM
People who claim Global Warming science is "settled" are to science as squids are to an airplane.
This is truth.
Deal with it.
Posted by: peter grynch | February 25, 2008 9:14 PM
Flossing helps you keep your teeth.
Posted by: Anita de Waard | April 14, 2008 9:00 AM
we need to start shooting our garbage into space I figure why not into the blackhole.
Posted by: Michael Ganje | May 16, 2008 1:41 PM
1) There is no magic, only hard work. (Ask a magician!)
2) Vodka is better than gin, whiskey and beer. Fewer toxins. Less hangover.
3) SUVs are not stupid. People driving them when they don't need to is stupid.
Posted by: Tom | June 24, 2008 1:47 PM