November 29, 2009 - 2:19 am
Tags: Culture, Politics, Science
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Fossilized bacteria in the Allan Hills 84001 Meteorite, originally announced well over a decade ago, has now been verified to really be fossilized bacteria. I remember the controversy back then, with scientists being split over whether it was really bacteria or simply natural crystal formations. I so wanted it to be true that we really [...]
An article at the Guardian, Birthers embarrass the Republicans, starts off discussing the now infamous incident at a town hall meeting hosted by Republican Congressman Mike Castle of Delaware, in which a lunatic lady waves her birth certificate around in a plastic bag while ranting that Obama is not a citizen. The author, Thomas Noyes, [...]
July 6, 2009 - 8:11 pm
Tags: Games, MyLife, Software
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When it comes to computer games, I’m mostly into strategy games. I prefer turn-based, but I enjoy an RTS now and again. Simulations have always been interesting to me as well, particularly sports management sims. Of course, the mother of all simulation games is the Sims franchise.
I confess, I never jumped on the Sims bandwagon [...]
It’s always fun to read or watch a Discovery Institute member getting smacked down with, you know, logic. PZ has posted a debate request the DI sent to a University of Vermont professor, along with the subsequent response.
September 6, 2008 - 8:39 pm
Tags: Religion, Science
Posted in Mythology (Religion), Science | 1 comment
Next Wednesday, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will finally get busy. I’ve been looking forward to this for a while. It was supposed to get going last year, but has faced a couple of legal challenges apparently. Those involved in the project are quite certain they’ll find new discoveries. The only unknowns are what and when, [...]
July 18, 2008 - 1:50 pm
Tags: Fun, MyLife, TV
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A little over three decades ago, I was a loyal fan of The Electric Company. I’m not sure which season I started watching it, but it almost certainly was not any of the first three. The show and I came into the world the same year, so I assume I had to have been at [...]
In my last post, I described the first issue I had with my new computer, which turned out not to be an issue at all. I had planned to follow that up the next day with a description of how bad of a time I had trying to install and update XP. But a more [...]
April 25, 2008 - 10:43 am
Tags: Games, Politics
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The instructions for September 12th – a toy world open with the line ‘This is not a game.’ But it certainly is an excellent demonstration of game tech being used for social commentary. The message it sends is simple, yet powerful. And quite real. Make sure to play it for at least a couple of [...]
PZ is recruiting bloggers to help stamp out the idiocy propagated by Expelled and instead promote a web site that counters it. If you think science and reason should take precedence over superstition and stupidity, follow that first link in the previous sentence to find out how you can help expose Expelled.
Last year, the Council of Europe put forth a motion for a recommendation extolling the “dangers of creationism in education.” Essentially, it asserts that creationism and intelligent design are garbage, are not recognized as science, and have no place in modern education systems. My favorite section is item 4, regarding attempts by creationists to discredit [...]
