Category: science
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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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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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Forever. Forever Ever. Forever Ever?
The concept of forever is a funny one. We all know that nothing lasts forever. When first falling in love – and in the special rare cases where it lasts, for several decades afterward – we have the gut feeling that it will last forever. Marriage, if we go down that road, makes this explicit.…
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