musings on ducks' dicks

Apr 05, 2013 10:36

This morning, I came across a curious piece of news: Fox News criticized government spending on pure science, making cruel fun of a government-funded research into ducks’ dicks (yep). In return, the scientist doing the research published a statement defending his research, which I duly read and, frankly, I don't think he did a good job of it. What ( Read more... )

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iljuhin April 5 2013, 08:12:50 UTC
I have a couple of book on a history of mathematics, which I am reading, on and off, about two pages a year ( ... )

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fiona_stockwell April 5 2013, 11:36:04 UTC
You wrote better than Pratchett and Co in "Science of the Discworld", I`ll save this post =)

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matrixmann June 24 2013, 08:02:13 UTC
If there is anything Fox news would welcome is research in a "Jesus bomb" - you drop it, all citizens in a circle of 100 miles suddenly become ordinary Christians.

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