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Expelled: The Prequel

Now that Expelled's producers have gained notoriety by expelling PZ Myers from a preview while failing to recognize Richard Dawkins, and reducing Jacob Bronowski's Ascent Of Man to the level of a Visine commercial, the search has begun for the missing links in the devolution of Ben Stein's dumbed down Darwin epic.
The first that has come to light, from a hard drive that survived the Y1K crisis, is this moving scene from the Bayeux Travesty --

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Second Hand Cannibalism

If science has a Thomas Pynchon, it's Russell Seitz, who usually blogs at Adamant. Once a week he shows up here to drop some knowledge.

Another Milestone In Cuisine Post-Creole

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Fijian chief Ratu Filimoni Nawawabalavu joined the villagers of Nubutautau last month in a weeping apology to 11 Australian descendants of a British missionary killed and eaten by the Ni Nubutautau 140 years ago, after a perceived slight to the sacred person of the Ratu's Great-great great great grandfather.

Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase and members of Fiji's  Great Council of Chiefs attended a feast and a complex ritual reconciliation ritual known as ai sorotabu intended to lift the curse on the isolated village arising from the unfortunate Victorian's demise.

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Climate of Here

Are degrees of latitude as valid a metric for discussing  climate policy alternatives as those of temperature , whether Fahrenheit, Kelvin, or Celsius?  One degree of warming may shift your environment roughly a Degree or two away from the North or South Pole, but any re-examination of the issue in terms of biogeography and shifting biotremes and  human ecology needs an uncontroversial point of statistical departure.

It may not be easy to come by, because just as the concept of  "average " global temperature is scientifically , statistically and semantically ambiguous, it's hard to get a firm handle on the "average" temperature the whole of humanity experiences.

Because demography is changing faster than climate .

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The Mayflower Compaq

If science has a Thomas Pynchon, it's Russel Seitz, who usually blogs at Adamant. Once a week he shows up here to drop some knowledge.

...Ye Pilgrim Bloggers First Thanksgiving

"a recently unearthed  Compaq desktop PC offers a tantalizing glimpse into the day-to-day life of a primitive Internet society, said archaeologists --The Onion  "

...HEREIN , PILGRIM,  ADAMANT  REVEALETH  HOW THIS INFERNAL ENGINE OR MACHINE BROUGHT BLOGGING HITHER  IV CENTURIES AGO  Since the year of our Lord 1620 we in New England hath looked for our Hiftory of Technology  lessons to The Puritan Broadcafting System. Yet the Godless minions of Antiques Road Show recently defcribed a Gadget delivered to The Bay Colony in 1638 as ye nations "firft printing press."

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This is arrant knavery --any mechanical Philosopher knoweth this infernal Machine to be forsooth a PC peripheral, for  Blogging , like bundling, is among the First Fruits Of New England. Did not Nathaniel Hawthorne  of Salem complain that Mifstress Hester Prynne's lap-top was busy even before the Pilgrim  Fathers landed?  So heere be set forth 
.......                .YE MAYFLOWER COMPAQ: a Ufers Manual.

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