Category: web
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Fresh brains attack the zombie problem
The future of zombie research It’s about time there were fresh brains in zombie research. So, it’s great to see that once again neuroscience is breathing new life into a topic that has had the life sucked out of it by philosophers. For too long, large brained philosopher David Chalmers and his fellow head-scratchers have…
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Disappointing the stupid and credulous since 1999
Either the silly season started early or they’ve finally run out of things to write about Diana & Maddie because for some strange reason the News of the World are now calling me. I just got a call from some guy asking about my cocaine order form on my website, claimed he was from the…
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Cultural Hacker Alert
If somebody called RICHARD DAWKINS adds you to their facebook account DONT accept it because he is a cultural theorist. DONT tell everyone on your list because if somebody on your list adds them you get them on your list and he’ll figure out how MEMES spread. So DONT copy and paste this message to…
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Slayage
http://slayageonline.com/ Also, thanks(?) to Big Monkey, I found this follow up to my recent post: I guess if i had thought about it, I would have known such a thing existed but I still can’t help wondering if it is a big joke. After 23 issues, I guess they mean it. Now a journal about…
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smashing..
Atom smasher may give birth to ‘Black Saturns’ If we ever make black holes on Earth, they might be much stranger objects than the star-swallowing monsters known to exist in space. According to a new theory, any black hole that pops out of the Large Hadron Collider under construction in Switzerland might be surrounded by…
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why wikipedia is wicked
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Duck_Goose Given that criticism is always easier than praise (is the second law of thermodynamics? I’m not too sure) it is inevitable that lots of people only ever see the problems with Wikipedia.. That because anyone can edit anything then it isn’t definitive, it’s not composed by experts, anyone can maliciously or through stupidity introduce…