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Skeptics' Circle #91 is up on Sorting Out Science

Carnival of the Liberals LXIX is up on Stump Lane

The Carnival of Education #180 is up on Steve Spangler's Blog

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I've always been perplexed by roman numerals. First of all, they're just *weird*. Why would anyone come up with something so strange as a way of writing numbers?
. I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run an old classic series of posts on numbers, which were first posted in the summer of 2006. These posts are mildly