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Tag: History Channel

Oak Island | shedding some light on the value of discovery based science

I am first to admit that I stayed up late last night to take in another new episode of History Channel’s Oak Island. Oak Island itself is fascinating – ranking up there with the Pyramids, crop circles, the Bermuda Triangle, ancient alien theory, Atlantis, ‘the Flood’, and so on. Any of these taboo “science” topics…

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the historical value of the history on The History Channel

I hate to admit it, but this wintery massacre of 2011 is keeping even me inside (while not shovelling snow anyway). While I’m not much of a television person, background noise in various formats is welcomed when chipping away at the never-ending piles of stuff to do. I must say that I am particularly taken…

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