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Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), was a German physician and some say the father of homeopathy. He had a theory about coffee: it was the cause of all human illness.
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The less money you have or the more debt you are in, the more the deliciousness of a coffee beverage increases.
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In his 1986 book, 'The Uncensored War' David Hallin created a new model of dynamic of journalism containing three spheres: the sphere of legitimate debate, the sphere of consensus and the sphere of deviance. The resulting model looks like a donut. The institutional ability of journalism to define 'legitimate debate' has peaked and is fast eroding.
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Banana Doughnut theory argues the area that influences the ray velocity is the surrounding material and not the infinitesimally small ray path. This surrounding material forms a tube enclosing the ray but does not incorporate the ray path itself.
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Black holes may be shaped like tiny donuts. If this is true, it is also likely true there are more than four dimensions of left & right, up & down, front & back and time. The implications are huge. Another dimension could also mean multiple, additional dimensions according to string theory.
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The number of donut shops in a city is directly proportional to its crime rate. More crime => more Police Officers-per-capita => larger donut consumption potential => more donut shops.
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The likelihood of a mistake increases each time an extra screen and an extra human are added to a system, because, invariably, someone somewhere will be eating a donut rather than concentrating on their job.
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Thierry Meyssan first argued in L’Effroyable Imposture (published in English as 9/11: The Big Lie) that American Airlines Flight 77 did not crash into the Pentagon. He argues the Pentagon was hit by a missile launched by elements from inside the U.S. government.
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The pancake-style implosion of the twin towers on 9/11 was not the result of the airplane collisions. The South tower collapsed anywhere from 1 to 8 seconds shy gravitational freefall in a vacuum. Only a planned demolition could help a building collapse that fast.
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Tiger didn't crash. He was fighting with his wife Elin and she let him have it.
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Step aside turkey. There's a lot more behind that post-meal nap than tryptophan.
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Spin magazine's Chris Norris looks at Radiohead's career trajectory and apparently annoying penchant for serial innovation and theorizes: Radiohead kinda blow...
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Four lessons from 11/09 exit polling that could shape a GOP success in the midterms.
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Pollster Peter Fenn says 2010 will not be your average midterm election. His theory: the GOP is doing exactly what minority parties should *not* do to win elections.
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Baseball is abuzz with the new, much, much lighter Sammy Sosa.
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Matt Lo Cascio of chicagonow.com theorizes there is a one-to-one match between the Bears and several
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The theory: they're the best-balanced team in baseball. Yankee hitting and pitching in game 1 definitely support the theory.
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Initially: the St Louis Cardinals and LA Dodgers series offered a perfect storm scenario: superior pitching against sub par offense. The theory doens't old if you don't score.
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Forget cell repair and the nightly brain sort theories, the reason why and the way we sleep is tied more to our ecological niche than the body's need to 'fix' itself.
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Forget about time travel and all of the other byzantine explanations of what's happening on 'Lost' and why. Hurley is dreaming the whole thing up from a room with padded wallpaper.
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The explanation for 'Lost' is Jason Hunter's Time Loop theory. But you have to see it to really get it.
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A theory saying Simpson fits 8 of the 8 criteria of someone suffering from histrionic personality disorder.
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Jon Stewart's 8/20/09 interview with Betsy McCaughey provided 2009's healthcare debate what Cronkite did to 1968's debate about Vietnam: a tipping point.
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Put the crystals away, calm that prana and keep contributing to your 401 (k): the 2012 world's-end theory is bogus...
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Contraband shipping of illegal nuclear material out of Russia to an at-sea transfer. It almost went bad. That's why we know about it.
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Once you put aside the weed and the potty mouth, Judd Apatow is making films for a new generation of social conservatives.
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Bisexual, glam, theatrical to the nth, Andy Warhol-inspired and fashion-focused. Gaga is playing Ziggy's song.
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Tough tactics and new poll numbers support the theory that Obama's White House is losing the message war in the Healthcare debate.
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Alberto Contador made the fastest climb in Tour de France history. Greg LeMond says he couldn't have done it without drugs.
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Get ready for dueling judicial theories: Sonia Sotomayor's Judicial Minimalism vs. John Roberts' Judicial Restraint.
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CBO's Douglas Elemendorf's attempt to slam Orszag and simultaneously cover his butt.
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Want to know the secret to personalities and personal success? Use hair part theory. It worked for Margaret Thatcher.
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Barack Obama was not born in the US. A theory debunked. Again.
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Want the building blocks of the human mind? (Or an iMac...) Try Church-Turing theory.
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The Chinese Room is a thought experiment illustrating the limits of artificial intelligence developed by John Searle. The allegory illustrates how machines can only 'understand syntactically' and not understand semantically in the same way the human mind can.
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Dip your toes into chaos theory with this explanation of the Butterfly Effect
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One theory says Obama is checking out Tavares' tookus. Another says go to the video tape.
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Palin's book 'Going Rogue' settles the dispute. Palin meets 8 of the 9 criteria of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
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If you're facing a center named Goliath, use full court press basketball theory.
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Which game wins at Wimbledon in 2009? Serve and volley or baseline? Slow Wimbledon theory says it's all about the baseline.
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Want to know who will win Wimbledon? Consult the 'narrow eye' theory.
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In Ricci vs. Stefano, the Supreme Court whacks Sonia Sotomayer's 'judicial minimalism' theory by overruling her earlier decision.
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Will a strike occur? Is Kim Il Jong dead or alive? Plus the potential role of autuer theory in North Korean diplomatic relations.
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Too much dairy? Too clean? Learn the source of the sneeze.
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Scott Roeder wasn't the only triggerman in the death of Dr. George Tiller
