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Humor News of the Weird Popular culture

Management-speak: Or let’s incentivize our workers to get complete buy-in to become a product evangelist and platform atheist

I consider myself very fortunate that I don’t work in business. As a physician and a scientist, I just don’t think I would fit in the culture that well. Oh, I’m sure I’d adapt if ever the killer opportunity in big pharma or surgical device manufacturing ever came around to which I couldn’t say “no,” […]

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News of the Weird Paranormal Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

Alien or puppet? You be the judge!

Even here at the ASCO meeting, I couldn’t help but be made aware (thanks to Steve Novella and others) about a brand-spanking new video of a supposed encounter with an alien that–unlike all the other dubious videos of alleged alien encounters–according to its maker will really and truly convince you that, really and truly, Aliens […]

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History Holocaust News of the Weird Politics World War II

Rudolf Hess stamps? In Germany? D’oh!

Here’s how not to allow personalized stamps to be produced: BERLIN — German neo-Nazis used a personalized stamp service offered by Deutsche Post to create a 55-cent stamp carrying a portrait of Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess, the company said Wednesday. The latest newsletter of the far-right National Democratic Party gloated about being able to slip […]

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Entertainment/culture News of the Weird

A worthy recipient of a Darwin Award

Yesterday’s post sucked all the blogging life out of me for the moment, so here’s a quickie. If there’s anyone who deserves a Darwin Award, it’s this guy here: AUBURN — A man talking on a cell phone while walking Wednesday on railroad tracks was hit by a train and killed. He was the second […]

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Anti-Semitism History Holocaust News of the Weird

A story that should be an April Fools’ Day joke, but isn’t

Three words you never want your name associated with: Nazi sex scandal.