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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
August 31, 2006
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. When Mayla Hernandez saw news of a double homicide Friday night, the circumstances seemed too familiar. She told the Sheriff's Office her boyfriend John Dorsey called her to pick him up around 12:30 a.m. Saturday...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:15 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Skeptics Circle
The answer is the 42nd Skeptic's Circle. My favourite post from the circle: Jon Swift says Science is Dead....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:46 PM • 1 Comments •
August 30, 2006
Maria Farell asks about ipod alternatives. I have an Iriver H120 which I'm very fond of. The only drawback to Iriver is that while their hardware is better than Apple's, their firmware leaves something to be desired. But you can...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:11 PM • 5 Comments •
August 29, 2006
Category: Global Warming
The graph below shows the predictions of James Hansen's 1988 climate model overlaid (in blue) with observed temperatures. Hansen's scenarios B and C have turned out to be very good predictions of what actually happened. Of course, it is an...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:20 PM • 207 Comments •
August 28, 2006
Category: stupidity
Robyn Williams has written a book debunking Intelligent Design. Tim Blair's reaction (endorsed by Glenn Reynolds): He doesn't see anything wrong with Intelligent Design, but why didn't Williams write a book on the flaws in Fundamentalist Islam?....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:35 PM • 35 Comments •
August 27, 2006
Category: Steyn
John Holbo finds this piece of stupidity from Mark Steyn: Ann Coulter's new book Godless: The Church of Liberalism is a rollicking read very tightly reasoned and hard to argue with. After all, the progressive mind regards it as backward...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:28 PM • 13 Comments •
August 24, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Charles Montgomery's excellent expose of the so-called "Friends of Science" group must have really hit a nerve, because it has drawn an over-the-top response from Terence Corcoran in the National Post. It appears that Corcoran was so incensed by it...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:31 PM • 14 Comments •
August 23, 2006
Category: patmichaels
The buck passing continues in the case of Pat Michaels and the office of Virginia State Climatologist. The State of Virginia has passed it back to UVa. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports: Katherine K. Hanley, the secretary of the commonwealth, wrote...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:57 AM • 10 Comments •
August 22, 2006
Category: stupidity
There is the "Anti (this) War (now)" position. And there is the "Anti-Most Wars Most of the Time" position. And there is Tim Blair's "Pro War All the Time" position: now right-wing monks are launching themselves at Sri Lankan...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:11 PM • 10 Comments •
August 21, 2006
Category: Levitt
Michael Shermer's September column in Scientific American is on Lott's lawsuit. He got some comments from both Lott and Levitt:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:42 PM • 10 Comments •
August 18, 2006
Category: Global Warming
William Connolley writes about a dodgy-sounding conference on global warming. (Jaworowski is presenting, for example.) In comments the organizer, Peter Stilbs, explained:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:54 PM • 8 Comments •
August 17, 2006
Category: Skeptics Circle
Interverbal has put together the 41st Skeptics circle....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:50 PM • •
August 16, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Don Boudreaux says that we shouldn't try to prevent global warming because Capitalism produces so much food that we are never malnourished; it produces ample clothing and sturdy homes to protect us from the elements; it produces the soaps, shampoos,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:05 PM • 121 Comments •
August 15, 2006
Category: patmichaels
Kevin Lynch has interesting pair of posts investigating Pat Michaels. First, it looks like Michaels isn't really Virginia's State Climatologist. Second, Michaels has serious conflict of interest, not just because the State of Virginia and fossil fuel companies have conflicting...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:38 PM • 2 Comments •
August 14, 2006
Category: DDT
I've stated before that folks who peddle the DDT ban myth tend to be those who don't believe in evolution and hence don't believe that mosquitoes can evolve resistance to DDT. One or two commenters felt that I was trying...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:14 PM • 21 Comments •
August 13, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Charles Montgomery has a detailed expose in the Globe and Mail on the activities of Tim Ball and the Friends of Science. It turns out that the University of Calgary has been used to launder oil company money to fund...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:47 AM • 32 Comments •
August 12, 2006
Category: Levitt
Via Eli Rabett I find a long article by James L. Meriner in Chicago magazine on the Lott-Levitt lawsuit. There's some new information on the history of Lott and Levitt such as this: Just when and how the Lott-Levitt feud...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:39 PM • 13 Comments •
August 11, 2006
Category: personal
Chad's put up a dog blogging post, so here's Silas in Centennial Park with a bunch of other dogs. (Silas is the one whose butt is closest to us.) The pavilion in the background marks the site where the six...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:18 AM • 3 Comments •
August 10, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Science-hating Miranda Devine reviews An Inconvenient Truth. Not surprisingly, she hated it. Apparently it is stodgy and full of hyperbole. Despite the fact that climate researchers say that Gore got the science right, Devine trots out geologist Bob Carter to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:19 PM • 22 Comments •
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Richard Lempert comments on why he found Lott's results implausible when they first came out:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:27 AM • 2 Comments •
August 9, 2006
Category: Bolt
Jake Young reports that bedbugs are back. Andrew Bolt naturally blames greens: "Being green can make you itchy", because:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:44 PM • 7 Comments •
August 8, 2006
Category: maths
MarkCC has a post about quaternions and the fact that they can be used for rotation, so I thought I'd chime in with exactly how they represent rotations....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:49 PM • 5 Comments •
August 7, 2006
Jim Macdonald reports that the pin-tumbler lock is obsolete....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:58 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
In January Chris Mitchell, editor in chief of The Australian, was named one of the "dirty dozen", the twelve people who have done the most to mislead Australians about climate change: As an illustration of how news values now take...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:12 AM • 27 Comments •
August 6, 2006
Category: meta
John Quiggin reports on a new book containing scholarly articles on blogging. One use I've found in teaching is to ditch my old clunky content management system and just use Wordpress to manage all the web content for my courses....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:17 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: random
Teresa Nielsen Hayden explains what is happening in the video of Total Eclipse of the Heart. Watch the video before you read the explanation. (Video is below the fold.)...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:20 AM • 1 Comments •
August 4, 2006
Category: Global Warming
DCI Group, a PR company that specializes in astroturf operations has been revealed by the WSJ as the group behind a youtube video mocking Al Gore:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:40 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Skeptics Circle
Yes, it's out. Get all your sceptical blogging over at Daylight Atheism....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:11 AM • •
August 2, 2006
Category: patmichaels
Notorious fraud Pat Michaels is in the news some more. First, Coby Beck reports that California as part of discovery in lawsuit involving automobile companies and global warming wants: All DOCUMENTS relating to both GLOBAL WARMING and to any of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:06 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: meta
My one millionth visitor came from Vrije Universiteit in Belgium and was here for 38 minutes. My thanks to everyone who has dropped by....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:15 PM • 6 Comments •
August 1, 2006
Category: DDT
Yes, the DDT ban myth is back, this time in "DDT Returns" by Apoorva Mandavilli that reads like a press release by DDT advocacy group Africa Fighting Malaria. It's in Nature Medicine of all places and is subscription only, but...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:05 PM • 29 Comments •
Over at TownHall, Mike Adams writes: The God-inspired writers of the Bible have always been well ahead of the scientists -- a scenario that hasn't changed from the days of Moses to the days of Darwin, or even now in...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:56 AM • 7 Comments •
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