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Virginia Virtucon (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Another Perspective Alaskan Foreign Policy By Dr. James P. Lucier It’s true that Alaskans look at foreign policy from a different perspective. They know the world is a globe. They look at their neighbors from the polar projection, while the lower 48 are still thinking east and west along the old Mercator projection maps, maps devised for the navigation [...]
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YesButNoButYes (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
About 20 years ago, I tried to get a film documentary off the ground about The Flat Earth Society. It always fascinated me that, in the face of just overwhelming facts about the Earth's spherical attributes, these people really...
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The Panda's Thumb (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
In a Comment in the journal Genome Biology Gregory Petsko, Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry Protein Crystallography at Brandeis University discusses the latest shenanigans of the Intelligent Design movement. ( Gregory A Petsko It is alive Genome Biology 2008, 99::106) They’re at it again. Armed with another new idea from the Discovery Institute, that bastion of ignorance, right-wing political...
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Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
Filed under: BlackSpin Black Voices Blogs : It's been said: "You can fool some of the people some of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Actually, I think they shoud amend that addage to say: "You can fool... Read more
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Geekologie (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Idiots in the Flat Earth Society are still convinced the world is flat and lead-based paint is part of a well-balanced diet. People are definitely prejudiced against flat-Earthers," Tennessee-based computer scientist and society member John Davis tells the BBC. "Many use the term 'flat-Earther' as a term of abuse, and with connotations that imply blind faith, ignorance or even anti-intellectualism."...
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Blacknell.net (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
This BBC story on the Flat Earth Society brought to mind the Virginia blogosphere - so many people who hold ridiclous beliefs with apparent sincerity. If they’re sincere, well, I can’t help but pity them. But if they’re just being intentionally obtuse . . . I sort of want to kick them out of the [...]
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No Good Boyo (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
The mighty Counterknowledge site has done the world another favour by reminding us that the Flat Earth Society is still there, holding aloft the stationary disc of Truth. Flat-Earthers, as the site points out, do not like the name being used as a term of media abuse like Tory, Zionist or White Working Class. Let us call them Horizoneers . Horizoneers are not pudgy Kennedy Grassyknollers or goateed...
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AterSlash (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
From the Flat Earth Society Forums:“News: The Flat Earth Society forums are back up! I apologise for the downtime.
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Cross-Currents (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Israel’s trading of terrorists for the remains of two murdered soldiers caused so much pain and consternation, that another giveaway went by unnoticed at exactly the same time. At the Madrid Interfaith Conference, Rabbi Arthur Waskow gave up G-d’s promise to His people in return for absolutely nothing. The Madrid Conference seemed laughable. King [...]
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Climate Resistance (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
A hat-tip to Anthony Watts, who points to an interview in the Chicago Tribune with head of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri. Q: What do you think about the small but vocal group of doubters still out there? A: There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is [...]
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Fark.com (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Mr Davis, a 25-year-old computer scientist originally from Canada, first became interested in flat earth theory after "coming across some literature from the Flat Earth Society a few years ago". "I came to realise how much we take at face value," he says. "We humans seem to be pleased with just accepting what we are told, no matter how much it goes against our senses." Mr Davis now believes "the Earth...
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Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
From the Chicago Tribune, August 3, 2008 PERSON OF INTEREST RAJENDRA PACHAURI By Michael Hawthorne Story link: Blunt answers about risks of global warming Rajendra Pachauri isn’t nearly as famous as Al Gore, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with an international panel on climate change that Pachauri, an Indian scientist and economist, has led since 2002. But [...]
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www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
The Flat Earth News, at least back then, had a regular column, “One Hundred Proofs Earth is Not a Globe.” Number 34, in that issue, “If the Earth were a globe, there certainly Source: www.talkorigins.org Department of Earth Science NewsFireworks Splice HTML Trips Involving Earth Science Students Calendar of Events in the [...]
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D' Technology Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Ed Bott noticed a teaser (see pic on right) on Microsoft’s home page: — “If this is going to be the overall message of Microsoft’s much-vaunted new $300 million ad campaign, it might be money well spent. The first ads in the new campaign were previewed at Microsoft’s employees-only Global Exchange conference last week to rave reviews. As Tim [...]
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Digital Daily - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Leave it to Microsoft to spend $500 million on an advertising campaign founded on a historical inaccuracy. This morning the company rolled out the first phase of its new “Microsoft: Stop Making Fun of Us” campaign, an ad that hopes to correct what Microsoft believes are misconceptions about its Windows Vista OS.
