Reuben

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Name: Reuben Gann
Date registered: 11/30/-0001

Latest posts

  1. An illuminating trip to the Microsoft store — 12/29/2013
  2. Netflix streaming continues to founder as dozens of prominent movies are taken down — 12/28/2013
  3. Saints Row IV is the most fun I've had playing a game — 11/19/2013
  4. Statisticians need to see how experimental science really works, then shut up about it — 11/13/2013
  5. Surface Pro 2: first impressions — 10/24/2013

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Nov 19 2012

GOP is anti-science: Marco Rubio Earth creation edition

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Politics, Science

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From GQ magazine's interview with Marco Rubio: GQ: How old do you think the Earth is? Marco Rubio: I'm not a scientist, man. I can tell you what recorded history says, I can tell you what the Bible says, but I think that's a dispute amongst theologians and I think it has nothing to do …

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Nov 09 2012

Election bursts some major intellectual bubbles

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Politics

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I count at least four separate delusions were repudiated by the election results on Tuesday. 1. There is a hidden conservative movement waiting to show itself For four years, the GOP has done nothing but attack the president. This by itself is not a bad thing: the opposition party is there to check the in-party's …

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Nov 09 2012

Republicans are anti-science: SST committee edition

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Science

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Now that the current chairman of the House committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Ralph Hall, is retiring, there are three Republicans up for his office. They're all climate change denialists. The first is the congressman that represents Orange County, CA, Dana Rohrbacher. Phil Plait has a ... let's just say strange quote from him …

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Nov 08 2012

Signe videosong

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Music

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Cover of Eric Clapton's Signe that I recorded. When I was 16 I got an acoustic guitar and two tab books (Nirvana Unplugged and Eric Clapton Unplugged). Those two books taught me more about guitar than any other thing.

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Nov 04 2012

Calling Republicans the party of racism is questionable

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Math, Politics

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Bill Maher is fond of repeating his line: "Being a Republican doesn't make you a racist, but if you're a racist you're probably a Republican." This attitude has obvious anecdotal examples to support it. The numerous racist signs shown at Tea Party rallies, the incredibly low minority support for and participation in the GOP, things …

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