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http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/04/06/climate-change-and-argumentative-fallacies/
…there’s a certain class of rhetoric I’m going to call the “one way hash” argument. … Certain bad arguments work the same way—skim online debates between biologists and earnest ID afficionados…
http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/06/01/perils-of-pop-philosophy/
So maybe this is a proposal for a new genre of article. The function of the ordinary pop-science/social science/philosophy piece is to give the reader a sort of thumbnail-sketch of the findings or…
http://freethoughtfortwayne.org/2009/06/01/june-2009-church-state-from-americans-united-is-out/
The June 2009 issue of Church & State, the official magazine of Americans United For Separation of Church and State is out, and available for free online. Included are a couple of great…
http://skepticblog.org/2009/05/28/the-fallacy-of-locally-grown-produce/
Locally grown produce is rarely efficient. Apply a little mathematics to the problem, and you’ll find that the ugly alternative of giant suburban distribution centers accomplishes the same thing -…
http://freethoughtfortwayne.org/2009/05/29/open-forum-friday-ten-books-screwed/
Last year that stalwart bastion of fine literature, Regnery Press, published a little tract called 10 Books That Screwed Up The World: And 5 Others That Didn’t Help. Regnery…
37 million people* are living below the poverty line. In 2008 in the U.S. the poverty line was fixed at $11,201/yr. for a single person ($933/mo.) or $21,834/yr. for a family of four ($1819.50/mo.)**.
Just to put that in perspective, as many people are living below the poverty line as the populations of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Columbus, Austin, Fort Worth, Memphis, Charlotte, Baltimore, Boston, El Paso, Milwaukee, Seattle, Nashville, Denver, Washington and Las Vegas combined***.How many people are struggling at just above or near the poverty line? How many more are just making ends meet even while being classified as lower middle class?*37 million poor hidden in the land of plenty (Guardian, 19 Feb 2006)
Demonstration of a 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A acoustic modem. I love seeing old hardware like this.
http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/wordpress-cms-plugins.html
WordPress is a great blogging platform with a potential of being an easy to use content management system. This is the third article of our four-part series, “The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8068733.stm
Appetite is one of the most researched areas of weight-loss science. Unfortunately, the appetite system is complex, and still poorly understood. There are probably dozens of hormones that play a role…
http://layscience.net/node/572
The trouble is that the finding probably isn’t that revolutionary, isn’t a missing link (no such thing really exists in biology), and may not even be a human ancestor. The anatomical analysis…
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