Category: deep thoughts
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Book Review: Ten Questions Science Can’t Answer (Yet) – A Guide to the Scientific Wilderness, by Michael Hanlon
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years of reading about and contributing to science, it’s the old cliche that the more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know. The method of science has revealed a whole lot about the universe we live in, but even the most well-established facts…
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Bottles and Cans Just Clap Your Hands
I’ve been in Montreal for the last few days. I was there to see Geoff become a max-level priest. He got some sweet skills when he dinged, like the ability to create holy water. This will obviously be useful in the upcoming vampire apocalypse, which I understand is the main reason he always wanted to…
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If You Don’t Like Swine Flu, Stop Having Sex With Pigs
Here is some perspective. There have been six cases of swine flu in Canada so far. The chance of dying from swine flu if you get it is less than 1%. So if you randomly shuffled Canada’s 33 million people and gave six of them swine flu, the probability of you dying from it is…
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