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From Indiana University: Commentator uses name-calling more than once every seven seconds in 'Talking Points Memo' http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/5535.html

Hi, I have a PC (bought in 2002, works perfectly otherwise) with XP pro and an Audigy 1 sound card. It has the following DVD and CD burner drives: Samsung DVD-ROM SD-616T Plextor CD-R PX-W4012A These drives are the originals and exhibit no problems other than the following: Whenever I...

OK, this is a rather good April Fools joke, but it's also a lesson on the commonest tactics used by journalists to sell a dubious story: Nasa and Nostradamus: A Spin Puzzle

Until a few months ago, I worked at a major fashion mail-order outlet doing customer service and taking orders via phone. I was fired and have had trouble finding a new job. Here is the background: There were about 300 employees and the workforce was about 85% female. I am male. I was...

I was reading through Volume 3 of Feynman's Lectures on Physics and he made the following remark on the correlation between a particle's spin and whether it is a boson or fermion: Which got me wondering, has anybody since then come up with a simpler explanation of this fact, or are you damned...

Bill O'Reilly's got a childrens' book coming out this Fall: The O'Reilly Factor for Kids : A Survival Guide for America's Families From the publisher::