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Charlie Martin writes on science and technology for Pajamas Media.
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Pielke Sr.: Climategate Emails Just a Small Sample of a Broad Issue (PJM Exclusive)

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

The decorated scientist — oft-mentioned in the CRU emails — wants to see the current blatant conflicts of interest removed from climate science. (Also read Bill Whittle: "Ike's Response to Climategate")

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Climategate: Imminent Demise of Glaciers Due to … a Typo!

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

The IPCC has been claiming Himalayan glaciers could be gone by 2035. The research paper they used concluded 2350.

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Climategate Computer Codes Are the Real Story

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

The "Read Me" file of a harried programmer who couldn't replicate the scientists' warming results.

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Climategate: Violating the Social Contract of Science (Updated)

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

The scientific method only works when fellow researchers can implicitly trust the results offered by their colleagues.

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Global WarmingGate: What Does It Mean?

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

Just one of the scandals is the willingness to manipulate data to make a political case.

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Hacker Releases Data Implicating CRU in Global Warming Fraud (Updated)

Friday, November 20th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

BBC confirms that a hack did indeed occur. Is this smoking-gun evidence of global warming data being fabricated? (Also read Richard Fernandez: "The CRU Hack")

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More 9/12 Crowd Data: Yeah, It Was Big

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

The latest sourced information on the 9/12 crowd points to a lower bound of at least half a million.

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March on Washington: How Big Was the Crowd?

Monday, September 14th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

Our attempt to calculate the true size of the 9/12 march.

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Worlds Enough to Conquer

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

The indomitable spirit of exploration goes hand in hand with risk taking.

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Google Chrome: A Microsoft and Intel Killer?

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

The upcoming free, lightweight, netbook-based operating system spells trouble for the weighty dinosaurs of Silicon Valley.

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What Happens to ‘Fly-by-Wire’ When Someone Pulls the Plug?

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

Can a computer-driven aircraft control system be made as reliable as a man operated plane?

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Why Google?

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

They started with a good idea and learned to make money from it.

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A New Kind of Search?

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

The Wolfram/Alpha search may not be a "Google killer," but it's pretty cool in a nerdy sort of way.

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Profiting From the Swine Flu Panic

Monday, April 27th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

Don't forget: with the Internet and a 24-hour news cycle, nobody makes money by keeping us calm.

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One Way or the Other, Uncle Sam Will Bail Out Mortgages

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

Everyone predicts imminent catastrophe if his plan for the mortgage crisis isn’t followed. Here's the sorry truth.

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AboutFace-Book

Thursday, February 19th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

What lies behind the furor surrounding Facebook's ever-changing terms of service.

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When a Zero Tolerance Policy Makes Zero Sense

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

A Colorado high school student is suspended for keeping her drill team's "dangerous" fake wooden parade rifles in her car.

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Did We Really Waste $78 Billion on TARP?

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

Were taxpayers stiffed by the Troubled Asset Relief Program? Even if they were, that may not be what's important right now.

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In Politics Today, It’s All About the Narrative

Saturday, February 7th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

If you control the narrative, you don’t just control what gets reported. You control what people see and hear.

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My Own Private Cloud

Thursday, February 5th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

The pluses and minuses of Google's new "Cloud" web storage application.

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Technical Hooey from the White House

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

New staffers claimed to find the place in the "technological dark ages" and pledged a more "open" website. Here's the reality.

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Password Security Myths and Realities

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

Following suggestions in the dreaded "Password Memo" actually increases the likelihood of getting hacked.

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Is There Really Life on Mars?

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

We can answer that question with a conclusive "maybe."

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Is Steve Jobs Indispensable?

Sunday, January 18th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

How can you replace a visionary who made — and remade — his company? (Also read Rich Kaarlgard: Jobs the Obsessed Genius)

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Apocalypse Not: Report of Defense Department Disaster Plan Overblown

Monday, January 12th, 2009 - by Charlie Martin

The media love predictions of turmoil, but is the Army really preparing for economic collapse?

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