RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/October 2011
October 2011[edit]
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And while we're on the Sally Morgan debacle, here's some amusing correspondence between her lawyer and Simon Singh. |
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An interview with You Are Not So Smart author and blogger David McRaney - covering the basics of the psychological and cognitive biases that plague our daily lives. |
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David Brin: It is your duty to risk your brain and argue with your crazy uncle about climate change. |
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The Onion: Nation Finally Breaks Down And Begs Its Smart People To Just Fix Everything |
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The best anti-bullying video in a while. But, as always, Jesusland won't listen. |
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Robin Ince on political correctness, Ricky Gervais' bullishness and some horribly turbulent language. |
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During the 16th and 17th centuries, the earth experienced a period global cooling that has since been nicknamed "the little ice age." So what caused it? A Stanford University geochemist has named the culprit -- Christopher Columbus! |
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The Onion: Comatose GOP candidate drops out of the presidential race due to sex scandal. |
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The Hamster Wheel takes a look at Sacha Baron Cohen's latest character: Lord Christopher Monckton. Totally serious. |
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Here's what you missed last night: Evil Liberal #1 on Mitt Romney's new flip-flop, and Evil Liberal #2 on pepper spray, dwarf-throwing regulations and his new SuperPAC ad. (make sure you see the ending) |
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The Hitch: Are Mormons a cult? Who cares, it's their sinister beliefs we should be worried about! |
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Charlie Brooker makes "a fairly pedestrian winge" and a Ross Kemp lookalike at The Telegraph doesn't get the joke. Brooker then responds in kind - because David Cameron is totally a motherfucking lizard. Isn't it obvious?Do You Believe That? |
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Internships are like slavery - Actually, the comparison with slave owners is, in many respects, unfair. Say what you will about them, but slave owners had to meet the full cost of bed and board. They did not tell the slaves that they had to pay for the privilege of working for them either. |
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Economics has met its match: itself. Where the hell is the Globe and Mail hiring these people? |
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Are touch screen tablets going to destroy our ability to read books? |
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HuffPo blogger Amanda Terkel thinks she knows the origin of the 9-9-9 plan that Herman Cain is touting. And if she's correct, Cain needs to get out of his mother's basement more often. Update: Politifact tests Cain's math. Just guess what they thought of it. |
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The Onion: Obama finally punches a banker in the face. His approval rating skyrockets to 93%. |
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Kate Fox (of Watching The English fame) on the UK's alcohol fuelled binge problem. - "The effects of alcohol on behaviour are determined by cultural rules and norms, not by the chemical actions of ethanol." |
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Is atheist money just too controversial for the American Cancer Society? |
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Where the hell did Alan Grayson come from? And the conservative responses are: a) You are dirty hippies! and b) Bullshit from PJ O'Rourke about the half-assed Dodd-Frank act. |
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Wegman's plagiarism: It just never ends. |
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By now, it's probably conclusive that there isn't a left-wing bias in the American media. |
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Socialists and market fundamentalists are the same...at least in one way. |
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The so-called "Communist Broadcasting Corporation" at its conservative worst. |
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VIDEO: A young Midwesterner who went through reparative therapy talks about the experience. |
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Fox attempts to bait a Wall Street protester and fails. If there's one video from the Wall Street protests you need to see, it's this. |
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Marge Phelps: |
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Papa Bear's running out of "coherent" responses. |
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Jerry Bergman claims that atoms are irreducibly complex. Let's look at that and see why it's wrong.Note; long post. Skip to section 5 if you're already familiar with ID and IC. |
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You know something's wrong when pro-market groups start worrying about income inequality, calling it the "New Gilded Age." |
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Poe's Law and RationalWiki featured on the front page of Know Your Meme! |
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Penn Jillette asks why politicians have come over all religious recently. |
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Robert Reich explains the US credit downgrade. |
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Wingnut welfare hits the UK. |
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Anthony Watts desperately fails at attempting to "debunk" Al Gore and Bill Nye. (Snarkier take at Wotts.) |