Everyone is saying Cashcrate is a bunch of Bologna, a big scam. On my blog, I talk about my experience, and why it's only good for some people.

An Imaginary person that predicted an earthquake to occur in the Philippines in July 18, 2008.

Naysayers be forewarned - your top 10 global warming myths are about to be debunked! Climate change and global warming are anything BUT simple concepts, with tons of different factors interacting and influencing one another. One thing that we (or at least most of us) can agree upon is that the world is getting warmer due to human action, and there will be serious consequences if we don’t do something about it soon.

It’s a story that is making waves around the world - a man from Oregon who claims to be pregnant. But is this the real deal or just an elaborate hoax? It all started with an article on Advocate.com where a picture showing a seemingly pregnant ma...

It’s a story that is making waves around the world - a man from Oregon who claims to be pregnant. But is this the real deal or just an elaborate hoax? It all started with an article on Advocate.com where a picture showing a seemingly pregnant ma...

THE INTERDISCIPLINARY university is not always a peaceful place. In recent years, scientists and humanists have cooperated in new ways--and quarreled in new ways as well. On many campuses, practitioners of "science studies" take a close look at what scientists do in the laboratory and theorize boldly about the social construction of scientific knowledge. Some scientists welcome the attention. Others worry that this sort of scholarship, when taken too far, threatens the legitimacy and validity of what they do. Underlying much of this discussion are some nettlesome questions: How much knowledge of science does a critic of science need to have? And what happens to intellectual standards when the notion of objectivity is put into doubt? These questions are often discussed in highly abstract terms. But not always. In the essay printed below, professor Alan Sokal of NYU discusses his unusual attempt to play with--some might say transgress--the conventions of academic discourse... http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9605/sokal.html

It's hard to get good information to spread virally, but can be surprisingly easy with hoaxes. (In this case, schools could not get away with locking in whole classes and testing students for HIV, without student or parental consent.) One resource for fighting rumors is www.snopes.com -- the Urban Legends Reference Pages. It investigates rumors and reports the results, true, false, hoax, partly true, or unprovable. This site wouldn't have helped here, however, because we could not find anything on the Washington DC hoax on the afternoon of May 3, a day after the Washington Post reported it.