Year's end brings with it the inevitable "bests of" lists. The World's Fair is no exception in this pointless exercise, but for our lapsed calendar -- unfortunately leaving us in the High Middle Ages. Here then, forthwith, are the "Best Sciences of 1381," as ranked by our readers.
1. Celestial Mechanics
2. Terrestrial Mechanics
3. Alchemy
4. Whatever Nicolas Oresme was into, you know, Nico, Nico Oresme?
5. Intelligent Design
6. Post-plague analyses
7. Optics
8. Astrology
9. Logic
10. Yarn theory
11. Cathedral building stuff
12. New studies in decimal points
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I get notifications of the incredibly bigoted and stupid comments at Town Hall.Com via Google. I usually ignore them - that's PZ's domain. But this has to be commented on.
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