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I touched her eyes Pressed my stained face I will never be clean again
When someone suggests that "Effect X interacts with profession", this is an admission that "We couldn't repeat the original observations of Effect X", followed by "We will look at smaller and smaller...
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Mirror neurons and little men in boats: The rise and fall of an antivax paper...
Previously cross-posted at For Better ScienceA recent paper by Li, Tomlenovic, Li & Shaw has attracted a great deal of attention, both positive and negative. The authors assert that aluminium...
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We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio... they had...
The Chinese scammers at SCIRP are the Wal*Mart of parasitical publishing; they cater to the low-rent rough-trade end of the desperate-to-publish market, charging only $99 to host one's vanity...
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Worst Fear-&-Loathing-in-Las-Vegas hommage EVAH
We can't stop here, this is wind-turbine toilet-block country![h/t Brisbane Times, RW]
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Pursued by an army of birds in the rain Vikings on Pig-back
BEWAREST THOUGH THE BLOOD-MOON, FOR THAT SHALL BE THE HARBINGER OF THE PIG-BACK ARMY AND THE GREAT WELTER[H/t DrSueOosthuizen and Danish Royal Library]
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Scenes from the Libertarian Utopia
Sometimes I wonder if we went overboard with privatising resources.
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Everything is better with googly eyes
It turns out that my colleagues do not share this philosophy... not when it comes to plots of PC2 against PC1, and PC4 against PC3, as parameterised by hue angle. Also they have no sense of humour.Next...
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For Entertainment Purposes Only [Director's cut]
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there includes Leonid's frame-story.Figures like the ones below are a recurring feature in our...
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A blot on the Escutcheon
Sejant, couchant, passant: Legitimate heraldic terms.Fondant, pedant, pissant: Apparently not legitimate. I am disappoint.[Derp Horse from "The Queen's Beasts"]I would pay good money for a...
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And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of...
The pictogram for "Shelter your head from fructile dive-bomb attacks" is universally understood.Alternative title: Fruit flies like a banana.
View ArticleGish Gallop, meet Moving Goalposts... ah, I see you already know each other
The blogpost that goes with this title cannot be found. It is probably wasting its time on Twittle, arguing with barmpots and eedjits.
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This exists
If it is a half-way decent "simulation of plasma caffeine concentration", it will make the letters on the screen all jittery and hard-to-read, and everything moves in time with your pulse, while...
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Pictures at an Inhibition
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and frame-story.Here is a foretaste of what is to come, to...
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The Expulsion from the Garden: Adam's actual sin
Reasons to follow Neuroskeptic's Twittle stream, #116:Where else would we learn about the Turkish researchers who have discovered the sweet-sensitive penile taste-buds in mammalian males?They argue...
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Girls in the hood
Learned essays have been written on the semiotics of colour language of car paints, fashion discourse, and "Nineteenth-century English travelogues about northern Scandinavia", but I am not sure if...
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Bonus Heraldry
"Let's have more heraldry pictures scanned from The Queen's Beasts!" asked absolutely no-one, so here you are.That's a Derp Yale at the left. As any fule kno.
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Transition-metal Alchemist
The workings of the Morphogenic Field have long been the target of Riddled posting; they may even be lurking somewhere in the small print of the Mission Statement. But we are no longer alone in this...
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WorkPhotoshop of the TeleMicroscopes
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and frame-story.Here are some impressive titles:They...
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Pipped to the post by the Zzxjoanw Press
"ZygoScient Research Insights"?Imma guessing that the very last position in Beall's List of Predatory Publishers is especially prestigious, so the scammers are competing for it.Directors of Zygoscient...
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