Saturday, March 28, 2009

SkeptiCamp Phoenix today

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Today is the big day for SkeptiCamp Phoenix , starting at about 12:30 p.m. this afternoon. Magic Tony, one of our presenters, will be live-b...
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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Dan Barker's Losing Faith in Faith, in Spanish

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Dan Barker's book, Losing Faith in Faith , has been translated into Spanish and is available as a free PDF download, Perder la fe en la ...
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Friday, March 20, 2009

Corrupt drug cops in Philadelphia

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From the Philadelphia Daily News : ON A SWELTERING July afternoon in 2007, Officer Jeffrey Cujdik and his narcotics squad members raided an ...
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Immigration and jobs

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Despite the common concern that immigrants to the U.S. take jobs that would otherwise go to American citizens, immigrants actually create jo...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

Physical spam

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On our dog walk this evening, we found that two neighborhoods to the south of us have been targeted by a new sort of marketing technique--in...
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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Some interesting technology

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The March 7th, 2009 issue of The Economist Technical Quarterly has some items of interest: Cool Earth Solar of Livermore, California is usi...

The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal

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Portugal decriminalized drugs in 2001, and Glenn Greenwald discusses the evidence that he says shows it has been "an unquestionable su...
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Answers in Genesis censorship turns old-earther into young-earther

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Commenter Tim H pointed me to a post at Tim Martin's Beyond Creation Science blog about another Answers in Genesis controversy . Old-ea...
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The U.S. Nazi dirty bomb plot

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Remember how the press was all over the story of the 29-year-old millionaire white supremacist and fan of Adolf Hitler in Maine who was buil...
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Pat Robertson on Christians studying the Koran

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From the J-Walk blog : Pat Robertson answers a question from a "pastor of a ministry to international college students" who asks w...