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Ari explains why absence of evidence for historicity is not the same thing as evidence of invention<\/a>.
Lauri Lebo predicts attacks on science this year<\/a>.
Bob Cargill talks about the new mythology-based theme park<\/a> that is coming to Kentucky.
Richard Hall explains why the coldest winter in a long time in Britain doesn\u2019t provide evidence against global warming<\/a>.
Phil Plait shares breaking news that the British Medical Journal<\/em> calls Andrew Wakefield (an important figure in the antivaccination movement) a fraud<\/a>.
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens has a video online about the quality of life in ancient Greece<\/a>.
Marc Cortez<\/a> learned from Nick Norelli<\/a> that his doctoral dissertation is online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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