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By: Jim Savage

Jim Savage — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:25:20 +0000

http://www.otterjoy.com/OtterHistory.html

By: Jim Savage

Jim Savage — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:23:36 +0000

Wonderfully sarcastic. Do you ever dream ? Your quip about training otters can be controverted by checking out
Broaden that petrified mind of yours.

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By: Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Fact Checking via Google

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:49:28 +0000

[...] The ‘1421’ myth exposed. Rips large gaping holes in Menzies’ book (previously discussed on Savage Minds). This site was the result of an undergraduate seminar at UC San Diego (UCSD) in which students read Mao: The Unknown Story and compared the sources with those from other books and articles on modern Chinese history – with rather devastating results. (What a great teaching project!) Here is a page devoted to criticizing the statistical methods used in The Bell Curve. [I am completely unqualified to evaluate the math on this site, but it seemed worth including in the list.] [...]

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By: Kerim

Kerim — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:47:59 +0000

I lost interest in the book after reading this.

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By: Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » The Invention of the World: Islam in the West

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:22:43 +0000

[...] About « 1421 [...]

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By: k’alebøl » Columbus beaten by Ming

k’alebøl » Columbus beaten by Ming — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:10:35 +0000

[...] It doesn’t really matter whether Columbus was that posterior construct, Catalan, or not; the Mings got there first, using trained otters. Trevor ap Patnarthur on 2006/3/21 @ 19:57 in Splog, Of the sea, Late Middle ‹‹ Trebucheting China from the moon ‹‹ [...]

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