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The dangerous life of sword swallowers

As Clive Thompson reports, a radiologist named Brian Witcombe wondered what we all have at some point: How dangerous is it to swallow a sword? So he studied 110 sword swallowers and published it in...

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Thomas Edison used his own version of DRM

It looks like Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison had something in common. I was amused to find this little tidbit from a NY Times article on Edison: Edison was adamant that Edison recordings would be played...

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A weird coincidence: Soft drinks can harm you

I was driving to my girlfriend’s house today to walk her dog while she’s out of town, and I was drinking a Pepsi. For some odd reason, I started thinking about the long-term effects of new drugs and...

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Some Tuesday night links

Here are some media-related links for your amusement: 1. There’s a subculture in New York that digs through old buildings and dumpsters to find rare old books. 2. A scientist talks about his experience...

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Science blogger gets banned from creationist documentary screening

Man, this is too good. PZ Myers, science blogger for Pharyngula, tried to go to a screening for the documentary narrated by creationist-flack Ben Stein, Expelled. It’s a film that makes arguments in...

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Mocking the mockers: The ambiguity of a Youtube video

“This is too clever to have been done by creationists.” I thought this while watching a nearly four minute Youtube video called “Beware the Believers” depicting a rapping Richard Dawkins and...

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VINDICATED: American Enterprise Institute falls for NASA “global warming”...

A few weeks ago I posted an email I had sent to Kenneth Green, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Green had written an article in which he cited a NASA press release that he...

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