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For your enjoyment and edification: I'm a bit out of date in finding this just now ... but it looks like a mathematician has developed a reasonable explanation of the source of the Voynich Manuscript. http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/cs/staff/g.rugg/voynich/index.html For those unfamiliar with...

This is just a discussion item - not a real claim! I have been taking a good long look around at the PEAR website at Princeton, and reading their publications. The details of their setup and statistical analysis are quite complex, and quite beyond my ken, but their claims on their webpages are...

I think that we should have a name that reflects our interests. Please vote.

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005030113370002099374&dt=20050301133700&w=RTR&coview= ...full article

In a attempt to crack down on illegal immigrant workers, Rep. David Dreier of CA wants to boost penalties for illegal hiring and add "fraud-proof" safeguards to Social Security cards "This is not a national ID card"! :D Read about it here Ignoring the market driven nature of employing...

Check out this thread on Derren Brown's forum: www.derrenbrown.co.uk in General Chat Forum Tell me if I have mis-spoken or missed anything. Beyond that, since the fellow says he will no longer discuss it with me, perhaps someone else can chime in and get more info from him. Basically, he...

Thanks to the fine input from, crackmonkey, rikzilla, Jocko, evilgoldtoesock, Skeptic, hammegk and Grammatron, I think we can come up with a more "popular" solution to terrorism. This combines the best of their input that: 1. American lives are worth more than anybody else's. 2. That...

Since there has recently been quite a lot of media attention about the proposed amendment to the constitution to "protect the sanctity of marriage" I thought I'd start a thread where we could all post some even better ideas for amendments, to "protect the sanctity of marriage", or for whatever...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=5&u=/ap/20030630/ap_on_go_co/frist_gay_marriage_4 Senator Frist, the majority leader, wants to try and amend the constitution (!) to say that gay marriage is forbidden. He rather DISINGENUOUSLY adds: He seems to feel that the Supreme...