Science as a way of life
I am working on some very smart things to say here. Really. Meanwhile, there's this and this. Welcome.
March 30, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
So, Bono is knighted. But, hey, don't call him Sir and displease the Queen. He's Irish and shall not be sir'd. Know who else was knighted by a Queen? John Hawkins. John Hawkins who? John Hawkins, the first slave trader....
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March 29, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
Google is busy building it, scanning books and scaring publishers off their pants. An article at Speigel: The little Google search window would be the gateway to the content of the 32 million books, 750 million articles, 25 million songs,...
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Category: Prime Stream
You may know by now what Kathy Sierra, a wonderfully smart blogger at CPU, has gone through. She has been the target of disturbing and sexually loaded comments, images with death threats. She is a writer I greatly admire. She...
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March 28, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
The Albert Einstein Memorial in Washington DC. Light played on the puckered bronze figure that seemed to be at the cusp of another enlightening idea. A majestic triumph for Robert Berks, the sculptor who created this work of art. The...
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March 26, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
I was having breakfast with a friend last week. I noticed him avoiding sugar substitutes and asked why. He didn't know of any scientific studies but said he preferred food that doesn't pretend. His reasoning went like this: Sweeteners mimic...
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March 19, 2007
Category: Behind Curtains
Yours truly will be away from the blog this week, makin money and all. While am away, here's something to think about. Fake fights on Climate crisis. Alan Thorpe writes in New Scientist.Scepticism is one thing; cynicism and conspiracy-theorising are...
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March 16, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
There's more than sufficient water at the poles on Mars [via /.]. We could soon be surfing on the red planet. A few minor things to take care of: Dig out frozen water from a few kilometers beneath the ground,...
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March 15, 2007
Category: Creative commons
Yours truly is still here. Read two books. The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg As the title says, the book treats English as the protogonist and traces how it was born, how it grew, how it almost died and...
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March 13, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
Saw this news about two children mauled by street dogs and the consequent culling in Bangalore. Episodes like this are symptoms of the economic, social and organizational troubles palguing Indian cities. There are no quick and easy solutions....
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Category: Prime Stream
Stir your immobile self out of that chair and do something physical, would you. If you don't, you may suffer flat balls (women excused), square bottoms and other assorted syndromes....
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