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It lives! The ScienceBlogs Book Club has risen from the grave!

Well, looky here: The ScienceBlogs Book Club is back! From October 1 through October 10, we’ll be discussing Autism’s False Prophets, by Dr. Paul Offit. Dr. Offit will be joined on the blog by a panel of experts, and we’re inviting all of you to join in by reading the book at home, and contributing […]

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The 95th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: The 9/11 Edition

The 95th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle has been posted by Bob Carroll over at Skeptimedia: Seven years ago, The Very Lost Prophecies of Michel Nostradamus were found by Quantum Beam Radium and Harvard Veritas Schwartz in a Peruvian cave. Dr. Schwartz’s validated spirit guide directed the pair to the cave by interpreting entangled stains […]

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It’s almost here: The 95th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle!

It’s almost here yet again. (Man, how time flies!) This Thursday (September 11), longtime skeptic extraordinaire Robert Carroll, the man behind the indispensable Skeptic’s Dictionary, will be hosting the 95th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle at Skeptimedia. That’s a mere four days from now! I can’t wait to see what Bob cooks up for this […]

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ResearchBlogging.org v.2.0 is live

ResearchBlogging.org, that aggregator for blogging about peer-reviewed scientific research, has been given a makeover and a major overhaul. New features include: There will be much, much more on our official launch date of September 2, but here is a partial list of new features: Multiple language support (and 30 new German-language bloggers!) Topic-specific RSS feeds […]

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Help DonorsChoose out

This totally slipped my mind, and I’ve been meaning to mention it for a few days now, which makes the holiday weekend a perfect time to mention it. Seed Magazine and ScienceBlogs are supporting an effort to raise $10,000 for various science projects supported by DonorsChoose. To help the cause, all you have to do […]