Results: Those of you expecting surprises, please move along. Nothing to see here. The numbers: #1 The Beatles 67%; #4 Elvis Costello 33%. The Beatles advance to the Great Eight. Up next, our search for the greatest Baby Boomer band of all time takes you to the Fillmore region, where the ToR’s upset king (and […]
Archive | November 23, 2009
Why are we in Colombia?
There has been a pretty steady drumbeat of news coming out of Latin America recently surrounding the possibility of war between Venezuela and Colombia. In most of this media coverage, the blame here has been placed pretty squarely on Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s president, who is portrayed as a possible warmonger against our valiant ally in […]
Massive calculus and physics hoax exposed
Oh dear: Newtongate: the final nail in the coffin of Renaissance and Enlightenment ‘thinking’ It’s now clear that “Sir” Isaac Newton and a series of co-conspirators were guilty of several crimes against science, including: Conspiring to avoid public scrutiny Insulting dissenting scientists and equating them with holocaust deniers Manipulation of evidence Knowingly publishing scientific fraud […]
The intelligence of natural selection; Charles Darwin, Africa and human evolution
The first human-like creature to pick up a pointed stick and use it as a tool to slay another creature changed everything. Instead of waiting for the accumulation of random genetic variations to impart gradually improving biological tools our creature could create tools itself. The advantage to humans of being able to organise, teach and […]
S&R Honors
Click here to learn more about past honorees...- Atheists in heaven? Vatican spin machine leaps into action
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- UPDATED: Pope Francis says atheists can go to heaven: Sweet Jesus! The College of Cardinals done elected a hippie
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- An open letter to Burt Rutan, regarding his WSJ commentary on human-caused climate disruption
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- Climate scientists still besieged
- Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching”
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Samuel Smith: No one hurt - that's the best news in all of this.…
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Atheists in heaven? Vatican spin machine leaps into action | Scholars and Rogues: […] we reported on the latest from Pope Fran…
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Bret Higgins: The last three Bridge issues, well, only three sin…
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