This week's The Monitor: What's in a name (why we aren't changing ours), hobbit or human, the Vatican's seven social sins, and drugs in our water, should we be worried?

 Created, written & designed by John Pavlus / Screencasts produced by Smashcut Media / Music by Jeff Alvarez

Episode 1: Facebook Sociology and Dog Bark Translations (1/24/2008)
Episode 2: Free Will, Death, Brains (2/6/2008)
Episode 3: Malaria, Physicists, Video Game Science, Cousin Love (2/13/2008)
Episode 4: Dinosaurs, Hot or Not Psychology, Ocean Temperatures and Virtual Surgery (2/19/2008)
Episode 5: Digg makes you Dumb and an AAAS Roundup (2/26/08)
Episode 6: The Killing Episode (3/4/2008)

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Science Express!!!!
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dot science
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Porn (okay not porn, just science, but worth watching)
The Cake is a lie, but the science is good
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Rotinom and shadow it off to the right side as Monitor
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1 Comments

1. 1. deowll 02:56 AM 3/19/08

   I'm not really sure why some people are so rabide about making hobbits into modern homo sapians. Somebody had to be the last humans around who weren't members of our species and it looks like it was them. It wouldn't bother me as much if the people doing the screaming didn't seem to be going quite so far out on a limb to explain why hobbits were sapiens which of course explains why I don't believe them.

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