Category Archives: sciences

“a disgrace to american science”

Posted on Saturday, 2002 March 23 by Anton

Philip Stott on l’affaire Lomborg. (Link from Andy Kashdan, from John Cole.)

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it’s magnetism, darling

Posted on Thursday, 2002 March 21 by Anton

Couples go to the Magnetic Pole to conceive. (Bottom of the story.) It’s a funny old world.

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complete the sentence: Smoking marijuana is _______ than drinking beer.

Posted on Thursday, 2002 March 21 by Anton

Also from New Scientist, formal experiment confirms anecdotal reports: Alcohol impairs driving more than marijuana. One has heard it rumoured that, among the bicycle messengers in the Financial District of San Francisco, the only ones who have accidents are those … Continue reading →

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envy rules

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 17 by Anton

Research Shows Just How Much People Hate A Winner. This is scary: pointless envy is stronger than economists expected. (Full paper) Some of my libertarian dogma may need rebuilding.

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