Greetings.
Jewish date: 19 Tishri 5771 (Parashath Bere’shith).
Today’s quasi-holidays: Ancestor Appreciation Day, Banned Book Week, World Tourism Day.
Worthy cause of the day: “
Stand Up for Veterans - They Stood Up for Us - The Petition Site”.
Today’s news and commentary:
Image featuring the insidious substance via WikipediaToday’s weird thing is “
Bread Kills!”, which is a very silly illustration of bad epidemiological reasoning, specifically that fallacies of equating correlation with causation and the assumption that preceding alone is a proof of causation. Enjoy and share the weirdness.
Aaron
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Posted By Aaron Solomon Adelman to
Weird thing of the day at 9/27/2010 02:26:00 PM