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- Cosmos Ratings Are Not A 'Disaster' For Fox
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The Drudge Report is saying that "Cosmos" ratings are a disaster and, I as I discussed in Is "Cosmos" Suffering From Unrealistic Expectations? the overnights showed numbers down from the premiere, but that is hardly a disaster. 1) It� ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 19 2014 - 4:19pm
- Sweden's First College Student Doodled A Lot Too
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In the absence of any evidence for why different people perform differently in school- other than that people are different- pundits have invented everything from genetic math anxiety to stereotype threat as an explanation. ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 19 2014 - 1:27pm
- Cosmos Suffers Another Ratings Drop- Even Though It's Getting Better
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Who is to blame for the latest weekly decline in Cosmos ratings? The Walking Dead, NCAA basketball games, a mass exodus due to its opening effort to be culturally in-your-face? There is always going to be competition on TV, just like there will always be c ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 25 2014 - 5:49pm
- Suspect Object Identified?
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Suspect Object Identified? News of a mystery object washed up on Haa Alif atoll Baarah southern beach has been wrongly linked to the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Ailines Flight MH370. It appears to me that it is something rarely seen these days ou ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 26 2014 - 8:17pm
- Whistleblowing- Why I Love the Sound of a Whistle
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Whistleblowing- Why I Love the Sound of a Whistle According to an official U.K. Government source: Whistleblowing is when a worker reports suspected wrongdoing at work. Officially this is called ‘making a disclosure in the public interest’. A worker can r ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 27 2014 - 5:16pm
- Twerking The Zeitgeist: Fans Of Science Should Be Worried About Cosmos Ratings
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The reboot of Cosmos was on the must-see television list for many; it is a prime-time non-fiction science program, with one of the best hosts in science media, a generous budget, airing on 10 channels, and even had music by the guy who did Captain America. ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 31 2014 - 1:54pm
- Bitsy's Brainfood Says Its Cereal Will Make Kids Smarter
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If there is one thing wealthy elites across the developed world share in common, it is increasingly denying vaccines and genetically modified foods. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 1 2014 - 6:00am
- "Darwin, did you ever see a Grampus?"
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We often think of April 1st as more of a modern event, because it's sort of stupid and we think of our ancestors as being more serious. Not so. Even the eminent biologist Charles Darwin got pranked by his shipmates on the HMS Beagle, April 1, 1832, ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 1 2014 - 2:42am
- MH370 Transcript- Official Release
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MH370 Transcript- Official Release Malaysian authorities have released the transcript of communications between flight MH370 and ground. Unfortunately, most media outlets reporting this news are either not citing the transcript in full or are not providi ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 1 2014 - 10:33am
- No Necronomicon? Harvard Claims A Surprising Number Of Books Bound In Human Flesh
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When you have been around as long as Harvard, and your library contains 15 million books, you are bound to have a few that are bound in human flesh. Wait, what? Yes, an interesting article by Samuel Jacobs in The Crimson from 2006 got resurrected recently. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 6 2014 - 9:53pm
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