Thursday, November 19, 2009

Cyclone Roberta - FAKE

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A public service announcement: the rumors and emails (example after the jump ) doing the rounds that KwaZulu Natal is about to be hit by a ...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Encephalon #78

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The 78th edition of the mind/brain/psychology/etc. carnival Encephalon is out at Providentia . Posts to check out: Generally Thinking on th...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

Picture: Family chain-mail fun...

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Yup. ( source ).

Anti-vaccination and South Africa's measels outbreak

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South Africa is in the grip of a measles epidemic (luckily confined primarily to the province of Gauteng ), with 2000 cases and 4 deaths . T...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

Lazy linking...

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Your semi- quasi- pseudo- weekly dose of Lazy Linking... " Grandma Plays Favorites " A report by ScienceNOW on fascinating rese...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Adaptations for the visual assessment of formadibility: Part II

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In Part I of this series, I summarized the experiments and findings of Aaron Sell and colleagues' paper " Human adaptations for t...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Skeptics' Circle #123

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The 123rd incarnation of the Skeptics' Circle is out at Blue Genes . Posts to check out: The SkepVet Blog on CAM and religiosity ; The E...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Skeptics in the Pub Durban

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There's been a Skeptics in the Pub Joburg for a while now, so it's about time Durban got in on the action too! Our inaugural SIP is...