Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
150 years ago, Charles Darwin put forth the theory of evolution based on natural selection. Layers and layers of scientific evidence have since proven many of his theories to have merit and evolution is mostly accepted as fact by the scientific community. But what about the general public?
The last major ...
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
A couple of big dots connected themselves for me last night, in terms of possible solutions for some of the major problems America needs to solve, including health care, energy, and education.
I was marinating my aching back in a hot bath, reading the last chapter of a great book titled ...
Posted in Agenda, Current Affairs, Economics, Education, Environment, General, Gonzo's Grab Bag, Health, Military, Miscellaneous, Politics, Return on success, Science | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Here’s something to push for! A cheap, practical, effective way to make sure your vote is counted, and counted as a vote for the people you actually voted for.
Electronic voting machines should be an improvement over older technologies, but they’ve turned out to be too vulnerable to fraud. There have ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Election News, General, Gonzo's Grab Bag, Miscellaneous, Politics, Science, Technology, Vote, presidential elections | 4 Comments »
Monday, September 15th, 2008
Let's look at reality versus fantasy:
Speech: Sarah Palin says Obama wants to raise income taxes.
Fact: The independent Tax Policy Center and other analysts have concluded that Barack Obama's tax policy will result in tax cuts for 4 out of 5 American households.
Speech: Palin says she and McCain will lead efforts ...
Posted in 2008 elections, Agenda, Campaign News, Current Affairs, Election News, Gonzo's Grab Bag, IDIOT, John McCain, Politics, Republican, Rhetoric, Sarah Palin, Stem-Cell Research | No Comments »
Monday, August 18th, 2008
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Thomas Huxley, "Darwin's Bulldog", had this to say about criticisms:
"Two things must be obvious: in the first place, that every man who has the interests of truth at heart must earnestly desire that every well-founded and just criticism that can be made should be made; but that, in the second ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible. - Richard ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
I find it fascinating how little most people actually know about the Bible and its historical validity. The adherence to the Bible as fact is even more astounding in the seeming absence of evidence to support such beliefs.
As an adjunct to my prior posting on Hector Avalos...in which he ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
I have a suspicion that the culture wars are merely the means religious leaders use to distract the faithful from the slow but steady onslaught of science in undermining the historical basis of the Bible. You see, if science continues to progress, the practice of taking scripture literally will no ...
Posted in BIO, Politics, Religion, Rhetoric, Right Wing Nut, Science | 2 Comments »
