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Science Left Behind Excerpt In New Scientist

If you subscribe to New Scientist, you can read an excerpt of "Science Left Behind" by their editors, drawn from the book and dealing with some of the more nonsensical ways progressives get catered to by politicians who are happy to check science ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 31 2013 - 1:30pm

Indefensible Position: Roy Thomas Was Better For The Fantastic Four Than Stan Lee

During the short time that Roy Thomas took over as writer of the Fantastic Four from Stan Lee, the original writer, it got a lot better.  I know, I know, that is blasphemy.(1) There is a reason Stan Lee gets a cameo in every movie about every Marvel superh ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 2 2013 - 5:43pm

The Story of the Three Old Men

There was an old man and a second, older man who was considerably older than the old man; they were visiting a very old man.   The afternoon passed without them saying a word.   As the sun was low already, the old man said slowly: “I didn’t expect that I w ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 1 2013 - 8:05am

Healthcare Is Worrisome, Now You Can Stress About Deathcare Too

Two Asian charities have joined forces with the U.S. National Funeral Directors' Association (NFDA) to get people to start thinking about deathcare rather than healthcare. No, deathcare is not another tine in Britain's expanding Liverpool Death ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 6 2013 - 11:32am

Guns

I’m going to go out on a limb, and write about guns. Specifically, handguns and so-called “assault weapons.” I’m not going to opine about what the law should or shouldn’t be, but only about the personal advisability of owning these kinds of firearms. Likew ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Feb 11 2013 - 10:38pm

Political Science Overturns Biology, Finds Genetic Components For Voting Preference

A group of political scientists says a growing field of research has found links to genetics and political preferences- well, sort of. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2013 - 3:05pm

Is Thor Mighty Or Just Magic?

If you are a long-time Thor comic book reader, you know Thor's hammer used to be really, really heavy. That means Thor used to be really, really strong.  Somewhere along the way Big Hulk lobbyists decided that the green guy should be the strongest cha ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 22 2015 - 6:50pm

Italian Elections: Berlusconi, Grillo, And The Stalemate Scenario

Next Sunday Italians will vote to change the composition of the two houses of parliament: the "lower" Camera dei Deputati and "upper" Senato della Repubblica. And as often happens with Italian politics, things are complicated. So, despi ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 25 2013 - 11:26am

Banning Coffee Didn't Make The French Less French

Legislation to restrict guns is a lot like legislation to restrict abortion- it's a tough sell at the federal level because of that pesky Constitution so it requires a friendly court and and a lot of lawyers. States, of course, can do it more easily. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 5 2015 - 12:10am

Statistical Averaging Of Entertainment Magazines Picks The Oscar Winner

I believe in the wisdom of crowds. If I take one PhD in science and ask them to guess the number of pennies in a jar, it's not going to be close, but if I ask 1,000 regular people to guess, the mean average of their answers is going to be eerily accur ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 20 2015 - 3:27pm