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News Bias
I've largely stopped watching non-Shep Fox because it makes me ill. When I watch it by accident, it...
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Uploaded on Oct 30, 2009
Perpetual Life
Rachel Sussman has travelled the world to take photographs of the oldest living things in the world....
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Uploaded on Sep 30, 2009
The Mess We're In
The journal Nature has just published a massive feature series on, to use a well-worn phrase,...
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Uploaded on Sep 24, 2009
Chat of the Day
Gallup just put out a new well-being index (lighter green is better). The bottom line: "The...
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Uploaded on Aug 13, 2009
The Fox Problem
The tension between the business interests of the conservative-industrial-complex and the Republican...
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Uploaded on Aug 10, 2009
How important is Climate change?
Jesse Zwick points to this chart from a new University of Maryland study...
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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2009
From the "Birthers"
It's the president's birthday! And what better way to celebrate than to give the birther movement...
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Uploaded on Aug 4, 2009
The Politics of Scientists
Robin Hanson points to the above graph from a recent survey and posits: If the public knew...
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Uploaded on Aug 1, 2009
What'sa all about...
Walter Breuning, at age 112 now considered the oldest man in the world, smiles while at the Rainbow...
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Uploaded on Jul 26, 2009
Hung Ducks
I was sure I'd written about the wonderful subject of duck sex on Tet Zoo before. However,...
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Uploaded on Jul 21, 2009
Tree of Life
"The Tree of Life--carbon, glucose, light, DNA, and the golden rectangle. A tattoo by Kevin...
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Uploaded on Jul 19, 2009
Scrumptious
Le Pigeon’s executive chef, Gabriel Rucker — a 2007 Food and Wine Best New Chef — clearly knew what...
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Uploaded on Jul 19, 2009
Music = Smarts
When school budgets are cut, programs in music and the arts are often the first to get axed. While...
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Uploaded on Jul 16, 2009
Tax the Rich!
Here's one from The Cato Institute's Chris Edwards, who describes the House plan as...
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Uploaded on Jul 16, 2009
We may not be alone after all
Astrophysicist Brandon Carter's long-standing argument against finding intelligent extraterrestrial...
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Uploaded on Jul 13, 2009
Tax the rich?
By Conor Clarke The daily chart is a feature I started playing around with over at my blog. (It's...
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Uploaded on Jul 13, 2009
Don't panic!
I think there's a fair amount of scaremongering going about the costs of cap and trade. I get off...
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Uploaded on Jun 26, 2009
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