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The History Carnival XLIV

More carnival-ly goodness! The History Carnival XLIV has been posted over at Barista. Enjoy!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Here’s wishing everyone who celebrates it a Happy Thanksgiving. As you might expect, our blog mascot is joining in the fun, preparing the turkey, and loading up on tryptophan! And one more below the fold.

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Announcements Skepticism/critical thinking

A little early skepticism coming due…

It’s almost here. In fact, it’s closer than you would think, because of the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. Yes, the Skeptics’ Circle is due to land at this session’s host (decorabilia) one day early, on Wednesday, November 22. So this time around the deadline will be Tuesday, November 21. decorabilia provides instructions on […]

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An all time high

October was a very good month for Respectful Insolence, a very good month indeed. In fact, traffic for this blog reached an all-time high, edging out the previous best month (May 2006) by about 1,000 visits on Sitemeter. It just goes to show that, although traffic has more or less leveled off and is fluctuating […]

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Chris Mooney on Point of Inquiry

Fellow ScienceBlogger and author of The Republican War on Science Chris Mooney was interviewed for one of my favorite podcasts, Point of Inquiry, the official podcast for The Center for Inquiry, this week. It’s well worth checking out. I don’t agree with everything in Mooney’s book (which I finally finished reading about a month ago), […]