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Biologists: owning creationists since the eighteenth century
For the past two hundred years, no person claiming to be educated could have possibly entertained the idea that we are here due to "intelligent design". A ten-minute blitzglance into elementary biology makes that fact painfully obvious to evolution denialists.
How to solve network data corruption with Realtek cards
Do you have a Realtek card driven by the r8169 driver, and you're experiencing SSH, SSL or rsync errors associated to the error message "Disconnected: Corrupted MAC on input"? Do you download large files only to find them corrupted? Here's the solution.
The bullshit detection kit
A few years ago, the inimitable Carl Sagan developed a set of "rules of thumb" to separate truth from crap. Here they are.
El kit detector de bazofia
Hace algunos años, el inigualable Carl Sagan desarrollo un juego de "reglas de buen cubero" para separar la verdad de la chatarra. Aquí están.
Cómo se hacen las canicas
¿Recuerdas cuando eras pelado y jugabas con canicas de vidrio? Bueno, pues, así se fabrican.
How marbles are made
Remember playing with marbles when you were a kid? Well, here's how marbles are made, both the small ones and the big ones.
What your parents, your church and your government have in common
Pointless rules aren't "pointless" if you look at them from another perspective. Here's that perspective.
Lo que tus padres, tu iglesia y tu Gobierno tienen en común
Las reglas sin sentido sí tienen sentido... si las miras desde otro ángulo. He aquí ese ángulo.
...so, an older male may provide oral sex to a young male...
Holy shit, bonobos are disturbing monkeys!
Predictably irrational
We go apeshit at the mention of "free stuff". "No" doesn't necessarily mean "no" when we're horny. You will shop around for cheap cigarettes, but not for an expensive suit. Economics is dead wrong. And many other interesting findings.
Dimensions
An interesting video about the geometry of the Earth... that was deduced before the year 1 BCE!
Every kid wanted one of those in the eighties...
...and I actually had one when I was three years old.
How life originated from nonlife
We haven't been able to determine how non-living forms gave way to lifeforms. Up to now.
The animal cruelty movement is wrong
Punishing people for animal cruelty makes no sense and is immoral. Here's why.
Have a newish NVIDIA GeForce and experiencing freezes with desktop effects enabled?
After fixing your video card issues, you can enjoy the full range of desktop effects available with Compiz and KWin in KDE 4.1 and above.
How to make your video or music player play on another sound card in Fedora (and Ubuntu)
The latest iterations of popular Linux distros Fedora and Ubuntu include PulseAudio. Make sure you learn about it!
