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- Announcing The Science 2.0® Smart Baby(TM) Sperm Bank
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BeautifulPeople.com, the dating site where ugly people need not apply, has launched a virtual sperm (and egg) bank for people who want to have beautiful babies. Really. They call it the Beautiful Baby service and they have also made it available to non ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 9 2012 - 9:24pm
- More World Cup Insults For England- Scottish Fans More Supportive Of Their Team
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As if a vaguely distant coach and a missing striker who doesn't like his fans is not bad enough, a new study says Scots are more patriotic than those in England. Dr. Jackie Abell from Lancaster University, writing in the British Psychological Society ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2010 - 5:06pm
- 2000 Days Of Blogging
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Today is the 2000th day of blogging for me. And this is my 2003rd post! It all started in December 2004, when I first learned about the existence of a thing called "blog". I had been contacted by Judy Jackson, from the office of public affairs a ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 24 2010 - 5:13am
- The Say Of The Week
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"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts..." Sherlock Holmes ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 25 2010 - 5:40am
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Blog Post - Payal Joshi - Jun 29 2010 - 9:25am
- Of Blood And Brazil
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Total Football Versus The Beautiful Game Anyone who predicted Brazil would not be the World Cup winner, much less get beaten in the quarter-finals, was just being contrarian. Virtually no analysis that went beyond hope had Brazil running through this eve ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 5 2010 - 2:01am
- Oil Spill From An Almost Artistic Point Of View
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The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is nothing but a plain disaster. It was of course a topic at ESA's Living Planet Symposium in Bergen this week, where use of satellites to help mitigate this environmental- and economic- disaster was on the agenda. ...
Blog Post - Bente Lilja Bye - Jul 3 2010 - 10:08am
- A Brit Celebrates July 4th
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A Brit Celebrates July 4th I've only been writing here for just over a year. From day one I have been made to feel very welcome, and I want to thank everyone here and all of my readers for that. Of course, Hank gets the biggest and bestest thank yo ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 3 2010 - 3:37pm
- Another Poetic Interlude
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Another Poetic Interlude Language is my first love. When I discovered the joy of the scientific method I applied it to language. The study of linguistics can be incredibly boring or a source of great joy. The choice is there to be made. It's a matt ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 5 2010 - 4:32pm
- July 5th 2010 Is Not The Future Date In "Back To The Future"
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If you follow social media, you may have been alarmed by claims that today is the day Doc Brown traveled to at the end of Back to the Future, that comedy classic from 1985, approaches. To sum up the plot, Doc Brown has created a time machine (out of a DeLo ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 20 2010 - 2:37pm
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