The Horror! The Horror! How dare we discriminate against men, by listening to women?

Posted on 2014/05/01 by Carl Robitaille

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Blinded by scientific gobbledygook

Posted on 2014/04/29 by Carl Robitaille

"I wrote the whole paper that way, copying and pasting from soil, then blood, then soil again, and so on. There are a couple of graphs from a paper about Mars. They had squiggly lines and looked cool, so I threw them in."

"The university where I claim to work doesn’t exist. Nor do the Nepean Desert or my co-author. Software that catches plagiarism identified 67 per cent of my paper as stolen (and that’s missing some). And geology and blood work don’t mix, even with my invention of seismic platelets."

"First came the Merit Research Journal of Agricultural Science and Soil Sciences, which claims it sent me to “peer review” by an independent expert in the field who gave me a glowing review. It laid out my article and was ready to post it online 48 hours after submission — for $500."

Blinded by scientific gobbledygook

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Meskel Square, Addis Abeba

Posted on 2014/04/29 by Carl Robitaille

Le plus drole, c’est les lignes avant l’intersection. Servent-elles vraiment? 😉

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Astronomer Finds a Star Literally as Cold as Ice … and It’s Right Next Door

Posted on 2014/04/29 by Carl Robitaille

"Brown dwarfs are born hot, then cool over time. And now one has been found that is literally as cold as ice. Not only that, but it’s very close to our solar system: Just 7.2 light years away! That makes it the seventh closest known star to the Sun."

"And this is the part that kills me: the best fit temperature he found was around 225–260 Kelvins. Even at the high end, that’s -13° C (9° F)."

Astronomer Finds a Star Literally as Cold as Ice … and It’s Right Next Door