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Posts made in August, 2012

They Called Us Salisbury Steak? Oh, The Humanity

On-Cor Frozen Foods of Geneva, Illinois has the funniest product recall you will read today.Now, product recalls are not generally humorous. As Ian Froeb at Riverfront Times rightly notes, they are usually about serious stuff like listeria, E. coli, salmonella - and that is just in the organic food section.  read...

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Neil Armstrong: A Man Of Peace For All Nations

The first man to walk on the moon passed away today, a few weeks after heart surgery. He was 82.  read...

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When It Comes To Being Pro-Science, Kenyans > Americans > Europeans

The British may think they 'colonized' Kenya to teach them about civilization and the modern world, but it would be the other way around today.  While over 80 percent of Europeans admit they are against any GMO regardless of whether or not they can be 'proved' safe - an impossibility anyway - and some Americans on the kooky anti-science left insist they are allergic to any product that has...

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Prisoner’s Dilemma Breakthrough: Zero Determinant Strategy Shows Winning isn’t Everything

The world of game theory has been on fire since Freeman Dyson of Princeton and William Press of the University of Texas announced that they had discovered a previously unknown strategy for the game of prisoner's dilemma - and it guarantees one player a better outcome than the other.The Prisoner's Dilemma is this: Alice and Bob commit a crime and are arrested. The police offer each a...

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Richard III: The Hunt For The Last Plantagenet King

King Richard III, the last of the Plantagenets, ruled England from 1483 until he was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, the next-to-last major battle in what would later be called The Wars of the Roses. If you're watching "Game of Thrones" on HBO, the Wars of the Roses were Lancasters instead of Lannisters and Yorks rather than Starks - the show has more dragons and less sex than...

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