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How about time travellers from the Imperium Romanum?

"it's a good rule never to leave documentary evidence if you can help it, because you don't know when it may be put in." - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The argument does not state that Bertie really sees a green object in the sense that light with green wave lengths enters the eye and triggers biochemical reactions. The argument t…

Somebody has added the year of the first publication of the article (2000) to the title. More interesting is the fact that this article has gone through a substantive revision and …

Alternatively, if you don't want to read the original story, you can read a plot summary from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22—And_He_Built_a_Crooked_Hous...

The german newspaper FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) claims that there is an inititiative to block cat images from the web due to excessive bandwidth consumption (article in g…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Der Zauberlehrling Hat der alte Hexenmeister Sich doch einmal wegbegeben! Und nun sollen seine Geister Auch nach meinem Willen leben. Seine Wort´ und Wer…

In a far distant future an interstellar scientific exploration vessel will approach the lifeless remains of the solar system and discover, stashed away in a big artificial moon, on…

>> I also learned that most professional mathematicians >> consider it uncool to get really good at doing integrals: >> it's just one step up from memorizing digits of pi. I consid…

Because they are so complicated, they are unlikely to have evolved twice. This reminds me of the beginning of the babel fish argument for the non-existence of god by Douglas Adams:…