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This is an amus­ing rever­sal of the famous Sokal Affair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair)

Non­sense paper accept­ed by math­e­mat­ics jour­nal

Last month That’s Math­e­mat­ics! report­ed anoth­er land­mark event in the his­to­ry of aca­d­e­m­ic pub­lish­ing. A paper by Mar­cie Rathke of the Uni­ver­si­ty of South­ern North Dako­ta at Hoople had been pro­vi­sion­al…

This is dis­turbing­ly plau­si­ble.

Mona Nomu­ra orig­i­nal­ly shared this post:

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My life is bet­ter for hav­ing seen this video.

Non-Explod­ing Soda Can Trick — Epic Win

October(10) · How my cat out­smart­ed my dog · Non-Explod­ing Soda Can Trick · Man gets Charged by a Goril­la · Junk deal­er returns $114000 · Mul­ti-Pur­pose Road Bike · Michael Phelps Putt At St. Andrews ·…

And the Stan­ford Flip­side once again dom­i­nates every oth­er cam­pus pub­li­ca­tion…

Sneak Pre­view: Fifty Shades of Car­di­nal

In response to the Daily’s recent flur­ry of sex arti­cles, The Flipside’s own Matthew LaVan has once more tak­en up the pen and writ­ten the soon-to-be best sell­er 50 Shades of Car­di­nal. Although the nov­el won’t hit the shelves until 2013, LaVan has gra­cious­ly allowed us to share some of the most tan­ta­liz­ing scenes ear­ly.
The heavy door swung open, and my breath caught in my throat. Book­shelves lined the walls, and the floor was dom­i­nat­ed by taste­fu…

I feel a ser­mon com­ing on…

Rejec­tion improves even­tu­al impact of man­u­scripts

A study of papers’ his­to­ries from sub­mis­sion to pub­li­ca­tion unearths unex­pect­ed pat­terns.

Mur­ray Har­ris is a boss. And the anec­dote about the schol­ar­ly dis­pute real­ly tick­led me.

Prepo­si­tions and The­ol­o­gy in the Greek New Tes­ta­ment | Andy Nasel­li

Andy Nasel­li — Octo­ber 12, 2012 — Leave a com­ment. cov­er This impec­ca­bly researched book is sched­uled to release on Octo­ber 23: Mur­ray J. Har­ris. Prepo­si­tions and The­ol­o­gy in the Greek New Tes­ta­ment: …

I love this ques­tion; “Doesn’t deny­ing recog­ni­tion to a reli­gious group vio­late the anti-dis­crim­i­na­tion policy’s ban on reli­gious dis­crim­i­na­tion?” It’s always amaz­ing to me when peo­ple dis­crim­i­nate against reli­gious groups in the name of non-dis­crim­i­na­tion.

Yale, In Self Denial

Yale’s move is espe­cial­ly unset­tling giv­en that its roots lie in train­ing cler­gy and its alum­ni include Jonathan Edwards.

I’ve seen stuff like this before, but nev­er so well-done. Wowza. 

Data Visu­al­iza­tion orig­i­nal­ly shared this post:

Data Visu­al­iza­tion can stop false per­cep­tion much faster then oth­er method:
a few years ago Kai Krause scales coun­tries by their area in square kilo­me­ters and then fits them into a Africa’s bor­ders for some per­spec­tive.

A neu­ro­sur­geon claims to have been con­scious and expe­ri­enced heav­en while the parts of his brain respon­si­ble for con­scious­ness were offline: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/07/proof-of-heaven-a-doctor-s-experience-with-the-afterlife.html

Heav­en Is Real: A Doctor’s Expe­ri­ence With the After­life

When a neu­ro­sur­geon found him­self in a coma, he expe­ri­enced things he nev­er thought possible—a jour­ney to the after­life.

I am always fas­ci­nat­ed when we dis­cov­er some­thing that every­body knows is wrong.

Short­en Your Work­outs | Wired Sci­ence | Wired.com

Pho­to: Get­ty It sounds too good to be true—get stronger and faster with short­er work­outs. But sci­ence says that most recre­ation­al ath­letes are