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“All Effect and No Cause”: Colliding Branes, Bouncing Universes, Promiscuous Singularities, and Fashionable Nothings — Five Versions of How It All Began

May 21, 2012
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“All Effect and No Cause”: Colliding Branes, Bouncing Universes, Promiscuous Singularities, and   Fashionable Nothings — Five Versions of How It All Began

"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." — G. K. Chesterton

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Bring on the Carbon Dioxide — The Upside of “Global Warming”

May 11, 2012
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Bring on the Carbon Dioxide — The Upside of “Global Warming”

"... the potential benefit described here is a huge one."

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“Make Room! Make Room!” — For More Government Planning, That Is

May 8, 2012
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“Make Room! Make Room!” — For More Government Planning, That Is

"If sustainable development is to be achieved, the goals of economic development must be reappraised." - 'People and the Planet'

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How Much Do Modern Scientists Owe to Bible Thumpers?

May 5, 2012
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How Much Do Modern Scientists Owe to Bible Thumpers?

"Christians believed that science could be done and should be done."

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Newswalk: Brain Drain; “Forward!”; and PC Journalism

May 3, 2012
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Newswalk: Brain Drain; “Forward!”; and PC Journalism

“If you’re by yourself or you’re not from around here or you don’t know anybody around here, you’re a target. Automatically.”

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Newswalk: The Downtrodden 99 Percent, The Legendary Prophet, and The Religion That Justifies Anything

May 1, 2012
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Newswalk: The Downtrodden 99 Percent, The Legendary Prophet, and The Religion That Justifies Anything

"As often as not, the constructs that emerge in the theoretical sim world do not qualify as proof of what happens in the real world."

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Bad Ideas Are Still Having Bad Consequences — Some Background to the Norway Massacre

April 28, 2012
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Bad Ideas Are Still Having Bad Consequences — Some Background to the Norway Massacre

"This event illustrates the fact that eugenic ideas are still flourishing and influential in some areas of society and are, likewise, still very destructive."

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Huxley on “Propaganda in a Democratic Society”

April 11, 2012
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Huxley on “Propaganda in a Democratic Society”

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper." — Thomas Jefferson

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The Latest from Detroit

April 7, 2012
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The Latest from Detroit

“While we were working to improve the efficiency of cars and light-duty trucks, something interesting happened." — President Obama

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The Upset Milk Jug — C. S. Lewis on the Explanatory Limitations of Accidents

April 2, 2012
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The Upset Milk Jug — C. S. Lewis on the Explanatory Limitations of Accidents

"If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents—the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms."

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Headlines Don’t Tell the Whole Story — And in Some Cases, None of It

March 29, 2012
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Headlines Don’t Tell the Whole Story — And in Some Cases, None of It

"Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline." — Walter Winchell

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Freedom of Religion for Everyone — Well, Almost Everyone

March 12, 2012
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Freedom of Religion for Everyone — Well, Almost Everyone

"It's part of a pattern. There is basically a war on anyone who dissents from Darwin and we've seen that for several years." — John West

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