Ben just alerted me of one of my humour pieces going up today at McSweeney's. Like the post title suggests, it's about science and pinatas. The key question, of course, is why did I categorize this post in the "humanities and social sciences," but to be honest, I'm not sure of that answer myself (what category do you think science pinatas should fall under?)
Anyway, my favourite bit is the part about the animal pinatas, but go here to read the piece in its full times font glory.
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So it would seem my last post on pinatas needs to be corrected on two fronts.
McKitrick and Essex have managed to get their "no such thing as average temperature" stupidity published in a journal! In their paper they add some new stupid to go with the old stupid from Taken by Storm.
We're going to have to start calling ourselves the Three Wise Atheists of of Scienceblogs: as Revere reveals in his Sunday Sermonette, he,
Julian Sanchez speculates:
You may laugh, but the number of regular pinata-related fatalities has been steadily growing. You want statistics? I haven't had time to make them up yet.