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Friday, March 26th, 2010

And There’s a Story in a Book About It

The Rude Pundit adds two entries to the internet’s seemingly endless list of resentful counterfactuals, but there’s a sting in the tail of the first one:
What if investigation after investigation discovered that the Muslim church had engaged in a decades-long cover-up of massive criminal activity involving the molestation and raping of children?

What’s funny about this [...]

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Science Tidbit

By Thoreau
I don’t know what to make of this article on diesel made by having bacteria digest cellulose.  It’s not the science that I’m uncertain about: for as long as I’ve been reading science magazines I’ve seen an article saying “Researchers at [Impressive Institute] have just made a key step toward [circle one: fusion, clean [...]