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This is the life I've chosen
added on 26 Oct 2009
An oldie, but goodie: John Oliver reporting on how academia really works. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cHuman's Closest Relativewww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis If that's not enough hilarity about chimps vs. orangs, or, if you w...
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This is the life I've chosen
posted to Structure+Strangeness on 24 Oct 2009
An oldie, but goodie: John Oliver reporting on how academia really works. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cHuman's Closest Relativewww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis If that's not enough hilarity about chimps vs. orangs, or, if you w...
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Doubtbreak
posted to The Inoculated Mind on 21 Oct 2009
Swine Flu versus Media woo: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Doubt Break ‘09 www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis In other news, Bill Maher finally expressed his true opinions of vaccines while interviewing Bi...
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Good News, Bad News, No News, Bananas
posted to Cocktail Party Physics on 23 Oct 2009
A few days ago, while scanning the New York Times science section, I was so happy to see an essay about particle physics. Then I read said essay and kind of tiptoed back to the main science page, and looked around see if anyone else had seen it.Of course they had - it was the number one emailed ...
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Contrarian Chic: Why can’t the media tell the difference between an attack on dubious ‘conventional’ wisdom and an attack on genuine scientific wisdom?
posted to Climate Progress on 29 Oct 2009
The Atlantic Monthly named Freeman Dyson a “Brave Thinker” for the “contrarian view” he’s taken on climate change. They tout his quote, “I like to express heretical opinions. They might even happen to be true.” Like the authors of the error-riddled Superfreakonomics, Dyson is contrarian for the ...
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Cox on Colbert | Bad Astronomy
posted to The Loom on 29 Oct 2009
As promised, Brian Cox was on The Colbert Report last night, and hit it out of the park. The whole show was better than average (which is saying a lot) but Brian truly rocked! If you missed it (and live in the States) the whole episode is online (Brian’s segment is about 13:50 into the episode). ...
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Stewart on FauxNews
posted to Rev. BigDumbChimp on 30 Oct 2009
I'm busy as hell with my day job and a couple new businesses I'm starting so posting has been infrequent and is likely to remain so. But here is a clip from last night's The Daily Show where Jon Stewart grills FauxNews.The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cFor Fox Sake!www.thedailys...
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