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Freestyle Catholics and sanctimonious secularists |
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Have we really invented so much? |
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9 | (2) |
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11 | (3) |
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14 | (5) |
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Wave ciao ciao to the camera |
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19 | (2) |
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God is my witness that I'm a fool... |
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21 | (3) |
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24 | (2) |
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26 | (5) |
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31 | (2) |
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Fair is foul, and foul is fair? |
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33 | (3) |
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36 | (2) |
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Once upon a time there was Churchill |
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38 | (3) |
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41 | (6) |
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47 | (2) |
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How to elect the president |
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49 | (2) |
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The hacker is crucial to the system |
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51 | (2) |
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Too much of the Internet? But in China... |
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53 | (2) |
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55 | (2) |
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57 | (2) |
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How to copy from the Internet |
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59 | (3) |
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What's the point of having a teacher? |
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62 | (2) |
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64 | (3) |
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67 | (2) |
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Dogmatism and fallibilism |
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69 | (2) |
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71 | (2) |
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73 | (4) |
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More thoughts on the cell phone |
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77 | (5) |
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Swallowing the cell phone |
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82 | (1) |
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83 | (2) |
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Evolution: all with just one hand |
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85 | (1) |
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The cell phone and the queen in "Snow White" |
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86 | (5) |
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91 | (2) |
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93 | (3) |
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96 | (2) |
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Don't believe in coincidences |
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98 | (2) |
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The conspiracy on conspiracies |
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100 | (5) |
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105 | (2) |
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There are two Big Brothers |
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107 | (2) |
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109 | (2) |
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The mission of the crime story |
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111 | (1) |
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112 | (3) |
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115 | (2) |
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Mandrake, an Italian hero? |
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117 | (3) |
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Are viewers bad for television? |
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120 | (2) |
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Give us today our daily crime |
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122 | (3) |
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Maybe Agamemnon was worse than Bush |
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125 | (3) |
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128 | (2) |
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"Intellectually speaking" |
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130 | (2) |
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132 | (2) |
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134 | (2) |
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Too many dates for Nero Wolfe |
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136 | (3) |
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139 | (1) |
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140 | (5) |
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145 | (2) |
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Where do you find anti-Semitism? |
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147 | (3) |
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Who told women to veil themselves? |
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150 | (3) |
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Husbands of unknown wives |
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153 | (2) |
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155 | (4) |
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159 | (6) |
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165 | (2) |
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167 | (2) |
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169 | (6) |
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175 | (2) |
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177 | (2) |
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179 | (3) |
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182 | (1) |
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Chance and Intelligent Design |
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183 | (3) |
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The reindeer and the camel |
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186 | (2) |
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188 | (3) |
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Idolatry and iconoclasm lite |
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191 | (2) |
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The cocaine of the people |
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193 | (3) |
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The crucifix, almost a secular symbol |
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196 | (2) |
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Those strangers, the Three Kings |
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198 | (3) |
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201 | (2) |
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Halloween, relativism, and Celts |
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203 | (3) |
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206 | (2) |
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Evasion and secret redress |
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208 | (2) |
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210 | (2) |
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Monotheisms and polytheisms |
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212 | (5) |
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217 | (2) |
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219 | (2) |
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221 | (2) |
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223 | (2) |
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The pleasure of lingering |
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225 | (6) |
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Is Harry Potter bad for adults? |
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231 | (2) |
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How to protect yourself from the Templars |
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233 | (3) |
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236 | (2) |
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238 | (3) |
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Journey to the center of Jules Verne |
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241 | (2) |
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243 | (3) |
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246 | (3) |
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On the obsolescence of digital media |
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249 | (2) |
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251 | (1) |
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The Catcher in the Rye fifty years on |
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252 | (3) |
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Aristotle and the pirates |
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255 | (2) |
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257 | (2) |
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Credulity and identification |
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259 | (2) |
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Who's afraid of paper tigers? |
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261 | (6) |
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No, it's not pollution, it's impurities in the air |
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267 | (3) |
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How to get rich on other people's suffering |
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270 | (2) |
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Miss World, fundamentalists, and lepers |
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272 | (2) |
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274 | (3) |
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Give us a few more deaths |
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277 | (2) |
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279 | (2) |
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281 | (2) |
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The human thirst for prefaces |
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283 | (3) |
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A noncomrade who gets it wrong |
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286 | (2) |
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288 | (3) |
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291 | (2) |
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293 | (1) |
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294 | (2) |
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296 | (2) |
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298 | (2) |
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300 | (2) |
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Idiots and the responsible press |
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