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Did the solar system ‘bounce’ finish the dinosaurs? The sun’s movement through the Milky Way regularly sends comets hurtling into the inner solar system – coinciding with mass life extinctions on earth, a new study claims.Scientists at the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology built a computer model...

More than just insidious spamming By Diane Walsh We live with being watched in ever more penetrating ways In recent months there has been criticism of the Harper government’s current “security” modus operandi, with accusations that the federal Conservatives are...

Global warming may 'stop', scientists predict Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a "lull" for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The average temperature of the...

Almost 900,000 Canadian children living in poverty, StatsCan finds Commons was unanimously resolved to eliminate child poverty, Statistics Canada says there are still almost 900,000 children living in the poorest of homes. The latest census numbers released Thursday show that an estimated...

The real history: MAY DAY - THE LABOR DAY May 1st, International Workers' Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognized in most countries. The United States of America and Canada are among the exceptions. This despite the fact that...

Treasury considers new ways for Fed to use powers By Gillian Tett in London and Krishna Guha in Washington Published: April 29 2008 23:23 | Last updated: April 29 2008 23:23 The Federal Reserve could use proposed new regulatory powers to try to stop credit and asset market excesses from...

PBS breaks ‘media blackout’ of NYT story on Pentagon propaganda. On Sunday, The New York Times published an explosive report exposing the Pentagon’s secret campaign to use analysts in order to “generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance.” Since that time, TV...

Physicists model how we form opinions The model updates the state of a node (individual) depending on the fraction of the states of its neighbors. In this case, that fraction (“laggard parameter”) is 80%. In (a), the central node keeps its original state. In (b), the central node is updated...

Dick Cheney’s message has been received: Saudi Arabia and Israel prepare for Nuclear War while Iran tries to broker peace Dick Cheney wrapped up his tour of the Middle East last week and it appears that he has accomplished his main objective: to prepare his allies for the proliferation of war...

Video I don't know what to make of this but it's pretty amazing. If it's true and not some kind of trick then it is astounding. Worth a watch IMO.

This made me lmao so I thought I would share: Warning: Gravity is "Only a Theory" All physics textbooks should include this warning label: This textbook contains material on Gravity. Gravity is a theory, not a fact, regarding a natural law of attraction. Gravity should be approached with...

With this post I mean to address the difficulty I perceive between skeptical reliance on consilience and the religionists reliance on faith. Religionists don't realize that the skeptic doesn't use faith but relies on observation and evidence. This is demonstrated in the religionists insistence...