January 2011
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“Rigorous scientific studies have not identified links between autism and either...”
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Wall Street Journal: Selectively pro-science
Prof. Scott Mandia
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Still got the right stuff: the next generation of... →
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Palmetto State "Sub-Zero" Roller Derby... →
A Roller Derby Demonstration before the CCU-USC hockey match in Myrtle Beach, SC
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Ciro-flex →
Working to repair a Ciro-flex, a type of Twin-Lens Reflex camera.
“Today marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that...”
– President Obama’s statement on Roe v. Wade (via coketalk)
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Bigger isn't always better →
Question: What happens when you put a 210mm lens with a 2x teleconverter and a 1.3x FD to EOS adapter on a Canon 7D with a 1.6x crop sensor? Answer: You get a 875mm lens that won’t focus at infinity and has chromatic aberration out the wazoo.
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Nice to see something we felt was true confirmed: http://ping.fm/nHfq5
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Winter on the Carolina Coast →
Venus Flytrap sculpture at Wilmington’s harbor.
Ice on a sign in Little River
Cape Fear River
Irony
Ice on a Palmetto Tree in SC
“Palin’s exuberant incoherence testifies to an unusually wide gulf between...”
– A Grand Unified Theory of Palinisms
by Jacob Weisberg
Why Sarah Palin says all those stupid and ridiculous things.
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Study linking Vaccine to Autism was not merely Bad... →
It would be one thing if the researchers has just gotten he wrong results. Happens all the time. One study seems to indicate something interesting, but follow-up studies all have different conclusions. That’s the self-correcting nature of Science. If done honestly, honest mistakes and incorrect results will be discovered by later studies, and we’ll get a step closer to the truth.
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