Tag Archive: Science

Baconian Science — In Our Time, Apr. 2, 2009

Friday, April 10, 2009

Baconian Science — In Our Time, Apr. 2, 2009
Among the most informative shows I can remember. What I found most interesting was that idea best summed up at the end by one of the guests that the Baconian ideology was much more important than the actual Baconian method. The method itself was somewhat challenging in [...]

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Time — In Our Time, Dec. 18, 2008

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

The Physics of Time — Good show, if a bit challenging intellectually at times. I found the most interesting part at the end when the guests were discussing time as an emergent property that comes from the interactions of individual particles. That is, any individual particle doesn’t have time as a property when analyzed, but [...]

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Via Brad DeLong, "On Albert Einstein" by Robert Oppenheimer from 1966. "As always, the myth has its charms; but the truth is far more beautiful." And when I think of Eistein, I think of what he said about Gandhi, "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood." — #   05/31/2007

This Meme Needs a Tag

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Brad, what this meme needs is a tag! All the great memes have their own tags.
Meme Watch: “East African Plains Ape”
I am no longer the only person on the Internets talking about the East African Plains Ape:
Achenblog: Daily Humor and Observations from Joel Achenbach : ...I am happy knowing that some of my [...]

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Via Kottke, the Flicker Fusion Factor (note, I know instinctively type Flickr, not Flicker): "The speed, altitude, centrifugal forces, and sensations of flying that we experience in an SUV, a sports car, or, in my case, an economy box, let us feel what it is like to be a bird. This partly explains why we love our cars, preferring this mode of locomotion to any other, even walking and running, for which we are supremely adapted." — #   11/20/2006

I'm sorry, but this is embarrassing to me. Human cloning is an inevitability in almost all its forms. Any type of "ban" will not be followed or enforced. If our country wants to ban it, that's our business, but a global proposal is just silly. In case you hadn't noticed, I'm a big fan of cloning. — #   02/27/2002

Undoubtedly we'll see several news stories about the "future of medicine" or snippets about the "new bionic man". Some group will surely see this as a slight against god. What we can be certain of is that the benefits of the artificial heart will certainly be clouded by the hype wars the various news shows engage in when a national story breaks. — #   07/3/2001

Assault on Evolution

Wednesday, February 28, 2001

Salon.com Books | Assault on evolution
This IDT (Intelligent Design Theory) crap is fantastic. Ask a bunch of questions of evolution that aren’t easily explained, or are unusually complex but have a conventional, albeit erroneous, explanation in pop culture and then draw the conclusion that there must be a supernatural master genius behind it [...]

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