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		<title>Mythbusters: Where Is the Mythbusting?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I appear to do a thing so sacrilegious as to criticize Mythbusters, let me just make one point very, very clear up front: I like Mythbusters. My kids love it. I think it&#8217;s a fine show, and one of the very few that promotes good science education. It&#8217;s great to have it on television, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/09/02/mythbusters-mythbusting/</link>
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		<title>Did One or Two Impacts Kill the Dinosaurs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: Late post today. I am covering the in-patient service and more time constrained than usual. By now most people know that the dinosaurs (now clarified as non-avian dinosaurs), along with 85% of species alive at the time, became extinct 65.5 million years ago as a result of a massive meteor impact. This is almost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/08/30/did-one-or-two-impacts-kill-the-dinosaurs/</link>
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		<title>IIG Celebrates Ten Years of Independent Investigation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On August 21st, CFI hosted the ten year anniversary of the IIG (Independent Investigation Group) with a huge bash. It was wonderful. Dedicated to the memory of Martin Gardner and with over 100 people there to celebrate, it was a non-stop brainstorming session jam packed with fun, thrills and excitement. Special guests who presented and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/08/28/iig-celebrates-ten-years-of-independent-investigation/</link>
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		<title>The War Over &#8220;Nice&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Skeptics and parallel rationalist communities spend a lot of time on &#8220;inside baseball&#8221; — jargon-filled debates about technical matters that seem incomprehensible, dull, or ridiculous to outsiders. These shouldn&#8217;t be the main skeptical topics (shouldn&#8217;t we be busy solving mysteries and educating the public?) but some discussion on these matters is unavoidable and worthwhile. Many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/08/27/war-over-nice/</link>
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		<title>B is for Bradbury</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The man who helped put the fiction into science fiction and (among other things) envisioned flat-screen wall-to-wall television way back in 1951 turned 90 this week. Obsessed from an early age with death, old age and a longing to retain the eternal child in all of us, his works manage to encapsulate themes of the unknown that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/08/24/b-is-for-bradbury/</link>
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		<title>The Free Exercise of Stupidity   Dr. Laura, the Ground Zero Mosque, and the 1st Amendment </title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, two of the biggest media story brouhahas were Dr. Laura’s N-word gaff and the Ground Zero mosque, both of which commentators insist are First Amendment issues. They are not. Here’s why. First, let’s review the First… Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/08/24/the-free-exercise-of-stupidity/</link>
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		<title>Kurzweil vs Myer on Brain Complexity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting blog debate going on between PZ Myers and Ray Kurzweil about the complexity of the brain &#8211; a topic that I too blog about and so I thought I would offer my thoughts. The &#8220;debate&#8221; started with a talk by Kurzweil at the Singularity Summit, a press summary of which prompted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/08/23/kurzweil-vs-myer-on-brain-complexity/</link>
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		<title>Bulwer Gets His Due</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It had to happen and I&#8217;m surprised it took this long. The UK has finally given up the ghost and supplied us with a haunted home that really deserves it&#8217;s share of attention &#8211; and tourists. The ancestral home since 1490 of politician, poet, playwright and prolific writer of early occult and science fiction themes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/08/21/bulwer-gets-his-due/</link>
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		<title>The Mystery Lights at Sea&#8230; Solved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll admit it was a pretty long time ago, like a year and a half, but a while ago I did a blog post about some mystery lights that often appear off the coast here in southern Orange County. From my house, they can be seen on many clear nights, ranging from about 180 to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/08/19/the-mystery-lights-at-sea-solved/</link>
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		<title>Was Jesus a Conservative or a Liberal?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ancient art of cherry picking passages from the Bible to support this or that argument has found new life in recent decades as conservatives claim Jesus as their political ally and in the past year with the Tea Party movement invoking Christ’s conservativism. What Would Jesus Do? (WWJD?) has morphed into Who Would Jesus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/08/17/was-jesus-conservative-or-liberal/</link>
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