Archive for the ‘science’ Category
Monday, January 15th, 2007
This morning I read the beginning of Arnold Kling's column on TCSDaily, and where he had a link to Edge.org. the website of the Edge Foundation:The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2005
Well, not quite. Surely Boulder is due for a blizzard of sort, but last night I played softball for the first time this year. A double-header, and I pitched for most of the first game, and all of the second. It's slow pitch, so my job is ...
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Saturday, February 12th, 2005
If you commit a crime, that is. Because forensic geologists will, uh, track you down. Or so says Raymond Murray, author of Evidence of the Earth: Forensic Geology and Criminal Invstigation. He tells some good true-crime stories. As an academic, he's found a career applying ...
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
Tibor Machan wrote an interesting article about this. It remind me of an article in The Atlantic about how G.W. Bush was more articulate ias governor than as president, and John Taylor Gatto's book, Dumbing Us Down.
To change topics, last night on NPR I heard that astronomers detected a ...
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
She has what is described as a high-functioning autism such that she, to some extent, things in images. I heard part of an interview with her on NPR, and maybe it's about time I hear the rest.
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
John Stossel has an article about Michael Crichton's new novel, State of Fear, which is critical of whether human acitivities are causing global warming. Crichton also has a speech on the subject, Aliens Cause Global Warming, which he gave at Caltech. I have not read this one yet, ...
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Thursday, May 13th, 2004
Last night I saw University of Colorado Law Professor Paul Campos speak about his new book, The Obesity Myth. Not only was Campos entertaining, but his message was important: there is little or no correlation between "obesity", defined by body-mass-index (BMI) and health. Further, this obsession with losing ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2004
Speaking of the mid-west, I'm enjoying NPR (gasp!) on the weekends. (Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, whom I saw at the Vancouver airport two summers ago.) This American Life had a segment on dinosaurs,, and how the new theories reveal that T-Rex was a wimp, and it was ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2004
On Tuesday I heard a doctor speak about his new book, Surviving the Extremes. Incredible. The author, Kenneth Kamler relates true stories, some he is involved in, of people surviving extreme cold, heat, being lost at see, outer space, etc. One theme is that people sometimes ...
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