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Links for 2009-10-24

Category: Links Dump
Posted on: October 24, 2009 8:49 AM, by Chad Orzel

  • Deep Physics : Built on Facts
    You can think of the earth's surface in New Mexico as subject to two superimposed sinusoidal periodic heat pulses. One has a period of 24 hours and corresponds to the heat rising and falling over the day/night cycle. The other has a period of 1 year and corresponds to the average heat changing through the seasons. Clearly this approximation is quite rough, but we can take it as a starting point for some mathematical spelunking of our own.
    (tags: science physics thermo math education blogs built-on-facts)
  • Gravity, evolution, and a peek at Bill Maher : Thoughts from Kansas
    "Slacktivist is dead right about Maher. That a non-theist of Maher's caliber can be subject to the same sort of looney-tunes science denial we see from creationists should tell us something about whether eliminating religion would really eliminate threats to science. "
    (tags: religion politics science medicine gravity evolution blogs thoughts-from-kansas)
  • slacktivist: Defying gravity
    "[W]hen I'm addressing the "science" aspects of "scientific creationism" I find I'm unable to communicate with them -- not just because I'm less fluent in the language of science, but because when they start talking about science then words no longer seem to mean what they mean for the rest of us. They use familiar-sounding words, but you quickly realize that they're using these familiar words in unfamiliar ways, using them to communicate vastly, irreconcilably different things."
    (tags: religion science evolution gravity politics society blogs slacktivist)

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