Thursday, September 25, 2008

Takuna

"Atheist ako, pero pag nasa bahay, nagro-rosary kami ng nanay ko, eh kung magalit sa kin yun. - Socio 11 Prof."
Wala lang, natawa lang ako. Galing sa isang forwarded e-mail na supposedly quotations from UP teachers.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

LHC Scientist Confuses Star Wars with Star Trek,We're Doomed

The scientific world is shocked today as Michael Zeller—a professor of physics at Yale who has been working at the Large Hadron Collider—reportedly misquoted the Star Trek tagline "Where no man has gone before" and, further shattering the Universe time-space fabric, attributed it to Star Wars.

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AltMed can lead to death

The quackometer has this story where a charlatan exploits South Africa's misinformation on HIV/AIDS to sell vitamin pills as cure, and people died. His conclusion is a harsh one for those who think alternative medicine is a harmless.
"Every supporter of alternative medicine in the UK has a little guilty role to play in this tragedy. By using the same arguments as Rath, such as the evils of drugs and the naturalness of vitamins, you are responsible for the deaths of real live people. Alternative medicine is not just the idle plaything of the middle classes from Islington. It matters. And when our Universities teach it as if it was science, and our hospitals offer it as if it was medicine, then charlatans are able to use this as justification for their own self-interest."

Saturday, September 06, 2008

'I Have All the Books in the World.. All But One' [COMIC]

Mister Bookseller is unsurprisingly about a bookseller, but what's curious is that his shop seems to have a copy of each book ever--- in fact, it has all the books ever. All but one. Touching and beautiful comic. Safe for work.

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