Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Physical Theories As Women You Have Dated?

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O.K., this may be a TAD sexist, but it is a very novel comparison . I have a Master’s degree in physics, which I have never used and never ...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

What I hate about CBS's coverage of the NCAA basketball tournament.

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Commercials. Lots of commercials, and even worse, lots and lots of commercial breaks. During every single time out, there is at least one ...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Ancient technology as exhibited by the Antikythera Mechanism.

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One of the more egocentric views of the world, including past civilizations, that our Western Civilization holds to is that our technology i...
Friday, March 16, 2007

Valerie Plame Wilson WAS a covert CIA agent.

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And she was outed, first by Robert Novak but confirmed by a lot of government officials, including Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, Armitage, and A...
Thursday, March 15, 2007

How close have we really come to a fascist state in America?

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The more we learn about how the Bush White House (including the subsidiary of Cheney’s OVP and his shadow intelligence agency), the more we ...
Friday, March 09, 2007

Technology makes people stupid.

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That’s my theory. I have no proof to back this up. I claim no special insights, other than direct observations about my fellow humans. A...
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Thoughts on how the Earth came to be capable of sustaining life.

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This is about a bit of a theory that I have had for some time that puts together a lot of info from a lot of different topics that could exp...
Friday, March 02, 2007

The population bottleneck and confidence in the scientific method.

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I have been reading some material and watching several shows on the Discovery Channel (I think) about the human population bottleneck. Here...

O.K, not to say that I was prescient or anything like that…..

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Here a column by David Ignatius of the Wapo that says, in a much better way than I just did . The scientific debate about whether there is ...
Monday, February 26, 2007

Apocalypse Now.

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Many bloggers have posts up today about the Oscars held last night (Feb. 25). I will freely admit, I didn’t watch them. I haven’t seen any...
Sunday, February 25, 2007

Fiddling While Rome Burns.

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I have written previously regarding my belief that our current civilization is heading for a pretty catastrophic collapse. I may not really...
Saturday, February 24, 2007

Life mimics art, otherwise known as Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Xander: No, it's just... this Malcolm guy? What's his deal? I mean, tell me you're not slightly wigged. Buffy: Okay, slightly. I...
Friday, February 23, 2007

The Time God Appeared on "You Bet Your Life"

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(The following is a transcript of "You Bet Your Life" as it was originally telecast on May 6, 1954 at 8PM, by the National Broadca...

Where’s Country Joe and the Fish when you really need ‘em?

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And it’s one, two, three, what’re we fightin’ for? Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn. Next stop, it’s Vietnam. And it’s five, six, seven, op...
Monday, February 19, 2007

Remember that really bad Kevin Costner film, “Waterworld”?

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It seems our near future (i.e., 100 to 200 years) might include some of the basis for that film, hopefully without the bad acting. This fro...