Science fascinates me. Not real science like goes on in a lab. More the kind you might catch on PBS’s Nova. I tend to interpret the world symbolically so I’m not much good at the practical. Additionally, I’m mathematically challenged, and like all math challenged people, I’m locked out of the world of the hard [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Science’
December 10, 2006
What do you see?
Dan Goodman has posted some interesting optical illusions and linked to many more. If you like that sort of thing, click over and have a look.
December 6, 2006
Around WordPress.com – 12/6/06
Here are a few more posts I found interesting, amusing, whatever.
How About Punishing The Owners
Update on “Times says we’re getting away with murder”
Funding Terrorist note: As far as I can tell, the title and the actual post are utterly unrelated. Nevertheless, it’s a good rant.
Military Strength v The Will to Win
Rodriguez playing Alabama to stay [...]
December 5, 2006
Around WordPress.com – 12/5/06
Here are a few posts from around WordPress.com. I’m linking to them because I enjoyed reading them and thought maybe somebody else would too. They aren’t in any order, other than how they popped up in my aggregator , or the order I found them via their tags.
A Broken Promise Under the Golden Arches
What’s Your [...]
November 28, 2006
Censorship 101: Polonium 210
If you need to shut somebody up, and duct tape is too short-term, consider Polonium 210. What is Polonium 210? Click over to A Quantum Diaries Survivor for the nasty facts.
August 29, 2006
Rebuilding New Orleans?
New Orleans has big problems. If you keep up with the news, you’re doubtlessly aware of their moronic-racist mayor, their rampant criminals, and their monumental struggle to recover from Hurricane Katrina. What hasn’t been in the news since the storm, however, is what I find interesting.
Before Katrina, New Orleans was on borrowed time. The wetlands [...]
August 25, 2006
Global warming, radical climate change, and mass hysteria
Climate change, radical or otherwise, is one of the many areas outside my area of expertise. Maybe I’ve read 100 articles on the subject, usually under the guise of global warming, in the last 17 years of so, but only a couple of them were in Nature or Scientific American. Is it getting warmer? You [...]
