Backstory: The mismatched 'Mythbusters'
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An Oscar and Felix with a welder's torch, this duo tests the veracity of pervasive myths.
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Deconstructing a pretty good joke, and the investment lesson held within.
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For âcloset co-sleepers,â revealing the truth isnât worth the criticism.
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An article last week about the do-it-yourself crafts community misstated the title of an upcoming movie about it. It is âHomemade Nation,â not âHomemade America.â.
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Don't roll the dice until you read this.
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Exploring the reasons people swear by treatments that have no scientific evidence backing them.
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The annual Super Bowl Media Day extravaganza invariably features a collection of oddballs masquerading as journalists who attempt to draw attention to themselves by wearing outlandish get-ups and posing inane questions that will elicit the most shock value.
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Across time and culture, the female predilection for chattiness and the male penchant for taciturnity have approached the status of unarguable facts. Now, two studies appear to bury these age-old stereotypes.
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Busting the small-cap risk myth once and for all.
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Plus: Was Einstein a plagiarist? [News.com Extra]
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It seems even a crusty old newshound like me can get burned. My item last week about a couple naming their baby âYahooâ turns out to be a hoax cooked up by a (now-unemployed) Romanian tabloid reporter. Reporters making things up just for a laugh? I am shocked, simply shocked.Â
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When truth becomes stranger than fiction, it's time to duck your head.
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A new comparison of four dietsâincluding mineâis misleading and riddled with problems.
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As mentioned on the Zend Developer Zone, Jaybill McCarthy has written up a Blog post about ten of the PHP myths that are common on the web and the facts that dismiss them.   I am a PHP developer. Maybe even a halfway decent one. As such, I often find myself engaged in conversations on the subject of web application development in general and PHP in particular. I am continually flustered by the myths, half-truths and outright falsehoods that technical and non-technical people alike hold about this humble programming language.   Some of the points included in his "top ten" list are things like "PHP Encourages Sloppy Code", "PHP is slow because itÃ¢ÂÂs interpreted" and "PHP apps all look the same".
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Science & environment: Bad science: A 1954 book called How to Lie with Statistics reads exactly like this column which I'm about to write on a Daily Telegraph story in 2008
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What did happen to that Bloor Report? Database myths and legends (Part 9) In this series we're looking at the myths and legends of the database world - some are true, some false. The myth under the spotlight today is: Bloor Research once produced a report that slammed SQL Server so much that Microsoft had it suppressed.â¦
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A new book examines the reality and the myths surrounding the legacy of Thomas Alva Edison.