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Here's a funny one for your daily dose of Slashdot:

Science: Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans
Posted by Zonk on Tuesday August 15, @08:32PM
from the i-do-not-think-that-word-means-what-you-think-it-means dept.

Stern Thinker writes "In a 2005 poll covering 33 countries, Americans are the least likely (except for Turkish respondents) to assert that 'humans developed ... from earlier species of animals.' Iceland, meanwhile, has an 85% acceptance rating for evolution." The blurb on the site for Science magazine is less circumspect about the findings: "The acceptance of evolution is lower in the United States than in Japan or Europe, largely because of widespread fundamentalism and the politicization of science in the United States."
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And now for something completely different...

Firefox Crop Circles Prove Intelligent Alien Life
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 15, @10:10PM
from the that's-the-way-we-like-it dept.

This past weekend, the OSU Linux Users Group descended on a field in Oregon to create a 45,000+ square foot crop circle of Firefox. The photos and write-up are worth checking out.
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