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    Refuting moon-landing deniers from a different angle

    Found this vid interesting
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    SQL Error Message

    Received this message while clicking submit on a reply (posting.php?mode=reply) General Error SQL ERROR [ mysqli ] Table './leagueofreason/phpbb_search_wordmatch' is marked as crashed and should be repaired [145] An SQL error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact the Board...
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    CAPTCHA problem.

    I was trying to log in from my phone and got my account to the captcha stage, however there was no captcha to solve, just the dialog box. Checked it with two web browsers and indeed the captcha seems to be not there.. This is the source of the page I get <i> </i><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC...
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    Terraria

    No love for Terraria? It's like 2d minecraft, lacking any other description. http://www.terraria.org/
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    The Science of Why we don't believe in Science

    Found a very interesting read here. http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/denial-science-chris-mooney
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    Another Reason to avoid visiting AiG

    Evidently, Answers in Genesis is using code that categorizes readers based on their browser's history http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/12/another_reason_to_avoid_visiti.php edit-In the categories they use, they put "christian" users, christian in quotes even...
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    Cosmological Models with no Big Bang

    http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.1750 This is a very interesting theory that I ran into, if I'm reading it right, it establishes a constant conservation between time, mass, and length and allows the speed of light and the gravitational constant into variables. Wouldn't this eliminate any...
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    New ties observed between HCFS and obesity

    Found this study very compelling. What it compels me to do, I'm not certain. Imma going to eat a donut now. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/
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    An epidemic of Fear: How...skipping shots endangers us all

    http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience A very interesting and well-researched article on wired that thoroughly refutes the anti-vax movement. Can't believe I missed this back in Oct!
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    Interesting "Why do you believe in god" pamphlet / image

    I found this while I was browsing around...it's too big to not thumbnail, but it looks like a proto layout of a pamphlet --and apparently photobucket sucks and resized the thing. If anybody's having trouble reading I'll see if I can get it somewhere else
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    That troll who keeps trolling the boards

    I decided to respond, because I was bored...too bad the posts got deleted again. ^.x So I'm making my own post....but I cleaned up all of the extra carriage returns and the repeated text, I didn't do anything to his grammar though...you can't fix stupid.
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    I, for one, will bow to our new cephalopod overlords.

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18281-octopuses-use-coconut-shells-as-portable-shelters.html Apparently octopuses have discovered tool use.
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    Nature:Stolen e-mails have revealed no scientific conspiracy

    http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/full/462545a.html
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    The ethics of eugenics

    I'm helping somebody with a paper and I was wondering if anybody knew some good books / sites regarding the ethical standpoints of various cultures / religions on eugenics in both the present and the past. Of course, somebody immediately pulled the "darwin=eugenics evilllll man! evolution is...
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    Hořava’s Gravitiation Model

    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=splitting-time-from-space This is looking very promising, the gist is essentially that at extremely high energy levels, relativity undergoes a 'phase change' of sorts that uncouples time and space. The new theory explains several phenomena that...
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    Torchlight

    I'd write a review of this game but it would mean I wouldn't be playing torchlight. -scampers off-
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    A Star to a Layperson

    One explaination I use for stars when I am speaking to lay people is that they are essentially nuclear explosions so large that their own gravity is holding them together. Is this accurate enough in its vagueness, or can anybody give me a more appropriate 'brief' regarding how to explain what a...
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    Just ..discovered...Edward Current

    :lol: :lol: :lol: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EFF5EBB67439C829
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    Stephen Colbert interviews Richard Dawkins

    http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=250381 Enjoy. For those of you who aren't in the US, you can use the directions @ http://lifehacker.com/394410/access-us%20only-web-content-with-hotspot-shield
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    Artistic Integrity

    I am embroiled in a debate with other authors over what comprises artistic integrity, and if 'selling out' (working with monetary gain as a motivation) compromises that. Is the concept of integrity, especially artistic integrity, a subjective thing? What comprises it? What could compromise it?
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