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Ryan
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Andy
Neatorama have a cool but rather strange post detailing 5 inventors killer by their own inventions. The list includes Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov, William Bullock, Otto Lilienthal, Thomas Midgley, Jr. and Franz Reichelt.
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Ryan
Ben Stein’s new movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed takes the position that Darwin’s theory enabled Hitler. That’s probably true. But how’s it relevant for today in a world where scientists almost universally reject Hitler but accept Darwin? Clearly, Darwin does not entail Hitler. So what’s the point? It doesn’t have any relevance to addressing the truth of Darwin’s theory? I think it’s an attempt to muddy up the conceptual issues and create a negative association with the science of Darwin. This is a common tactic of advertisers and marketers: manipulate the viewer by creating unnatural associations.
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Ryan
I’m always a sucker for facts that make me do a double take. SciAm has an article describing how Plutonium can actually move pretty large distances, through the ground, on its own. Scary!
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Claire
Really cool looking, but will it determine the origin of life? The God Particle, a massive particle accelerator.
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Ryan
50 Weird Science Tidbits & Oddities - did you know that there are more microbes in your body than there are humans on the earth?
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JD
41 Hilarious Science Fair Experiments, These make me feel so sorry for the average science teacher.