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Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:00 AM

Texas prepares for evolution vote with national implications

The state's school board is considering a new anti-evolution curriculum that could affect how the subject is taught throughout the country.
Alex Koppelman

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  • Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:56 PM

    On predicting the past.

    It's called retrodiction, a word which nobody uses because everyone calls it predicting back in time. Predicting back in time is much much easier that predicting forward in time, for obvious reasons.

    I think the word for predicting something when we know what happened before and after the gap is called interdiction, but I'm not entirely sure.

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