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A Graphical History of the Vaccine Brouhaha

Post author:Dan Klarmann
Post published:May 20, 2010
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I got this Stumble from our own Hank over on FaceBook. A concise and accurate look at the origins of the currently imagined link between autism and vaccines. The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield

Summer Memories

Post author:Dan Klarmann
Post published:May 19, 2010
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Few times as a kid did I wish for a teacher to ask, What I Did on my Summer Vacation? The school year beginning in 1971 would have been one of them. I recently wrote a bit about one day that summer at one of my other venues: TheObjectAtHand: Balloon Memory Ballast magnetically splayed on contemporary penny

How to Keep Up with the Denialists

Post author:Dan Klarmann
Post published:May 14, 2010
Post category:Communication Current Events Education ignorance Orwellian populism Science snake oil Videos Web Site
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Pharyngula linked over to this YouTube channel dedicated to debunking each piece of Climate Denialism as it comes up. Here's a sample:

Why You Can’t Fail a Bible Quiz

Post author:Dan Klarmann
Post published:May 1, 2010
Post category:Cartoons Humor ignorance Religion Videos
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Here is a humorous/snarky look at some of the continuity problems inherent in an absolutely infallable text: It even gives the chapter and verse so we can confirm the true and inerrant details of this quiz

Another Musing on Our Evolving Ability to Perceive

Post author:Dan Klarmann
Post published:April 27, 2010
Post category:Astronomy Education nature Science scientific method Web Site Whimsy
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I have occasionally ruminated our improved ability to see and understand the universe around us. On this blog, it usually is in terms of comparing the Young Earth view with what we've learned in the last few hundred years. Posts such as The Universe is not Specified to Human Scale and My limited vision make the point. But I've started another blog that focuses less on politics and culture, yet found that one of my first posts again addresses the issue of how we've improved our vision of the world around us in the last few dozen generations. Please peruse The Object At Hand: Light Lens a Hand, to Help us Understand and see if I am off the beam.

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