Clark Smiley liked to win.
Why shouldn’t you let a 16-year old use a handheld Dell computer to keep score during a chess match? Continue reading “Technology makes it easy to cheat at chess”
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“In matters of religion it is very easy to deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him.”
In 1997, 38 members of the religious group "Heaven’s Gate" were convinced by leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles to commit mass suicide so a UFO could take them to a "level of existence above human."
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“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
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– Galileo Galilei
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“Summertime, and the scamming is easy…”
The American summer of 2012 is hot.
If you’ve got an air conditioner to keep you cool, it costs a lot to run.
So when you get an automated phone call telling you about a federal program that will help pay your utility bills and reimburse you up to $1,000, that’s good news. Continue reading ““Summertime, and the scamming is easy…””