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The water you drink has been piss at least 10 times already!

Paul Frijters
October 22, 2012
Last Thursday I posed the question of how often the water you drink has been pissed by a vertebrate already. If the number is very...
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How many times has water been piss?

Paul Frijters
October 18, 2012
Yet another challenge for you: how many times has the water you drink been pissed out of a vertebrate (something with a spine) in the...
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Do you know what economic growth is today?

Paul Frijters
October 17, 2012October 17, 2012
Have a look at the following picture that comes from a 2012 paper by Gotz and Hecq on forecasting growth. It tells you what the...
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More questions for Gillard

Ken Parish
October 15, 2012October 16, 2012
[caption id="attachment_21735" align="alignright" width="300"] You have to wonder why even a young-ish Julia Gillard didn't smell a rat given Bruce Wilson's eyes ...[/caption] The hive-mind...
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Why Genghis Khan won’t have had 16 million descendants.

Paul Frijters
October 15, 2012
Last Thursday, I posed the mystery of whether there are in fact 16 million direct male descendants of Genghis Khan. This factoid came from a...
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John R Walker exhibition invite

john r walker
October 14, 2012October 14, 2012
Winter in the Fire Forest 20 October - 17 November   2012 Troppos are very welcome to join us at the opening Saturday  20 October       3pm-5...
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Ideas that might not matter II : Societal Collapse

Richard Tsukamasa Green
October 14, 2012
As in part one of this series, I'm thinking about an idea that seems very possible, extremely interesting and well accepted, but which has little...

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