Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Spring break (‘reading week’) was last week. Like all students [snicker], I spent it working on things like quantum field theory and galaxy dynamics. Here’s a roundup of a few things that happened this past week:
Last Friday my office computer somehow got hacked into and was being used to scan for open ports. I noticed [...]
Posted in Bad Science, Technology on February 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
A Canadian university has ruled against Wi-Fi on the campus because administrators are worried about possible hazards to student health. Lakehead is located at the head of Lake Superior in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and president Fred Gilbert wonâ��t allow Wi-Fi, “until he’s satisfied EMF (electric and magnetic fields) exposure doesn’t pose a..
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Posted in Good Science, Religion on February 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
For those outside the faith, the depth of the church’s dilemma can be explained this way: Imagine if DNA evidence revealed that the Pilgrims didn’t sail from Europe to escape religious persecution but rather were part of a migration from Iceland – and that U.S. history books were wrong.
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Everything I need [...]
Posted in Bad Science, Politics on February 8, 2006 | 1 Comment »
The Bush appointee who said the Big Bang was ‘opinion’ has resigned. It came out yesterday that he had lied about graduating from Texas A&M, although noone’s saying whether or not this is the reason he resigned. As the above link correctly points out, Deutsch was a small fish; there’s a much more serious issue [...]
Posted in Bad Science, Politics on February 6, 2006 | 1 Comment »
George Deutsch, 24-year-old journalism major turned NASA public affairs officer (who also happens to be a Bush appointee), says that the Big Bang is “not proven fact; it is opinion … It is not NASA’s place [to] make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a [...]
Posted in Politics on February 4, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Now that the story about cartoons viewed as denigrating to Islam has exploded, it’s time for me to add fuel to the fire. Muslims in the mideast are demanding an apology from the Danish government for this. It is absurd, however, that the governemnt should have to apologise. To do so would be equivalent to [...]
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