Month: February 2008
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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: Hall of Gems
Hope Diamond The Hall of Gems reminded me of this quote from Henry David Thoreau: “When the frost comes out in the spring, and even in a thawing day in the winter, the sand begins to flow down the slopes like lava, sometimes bursting out through the snow and overflowing it where no sand was…
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The Real Recycling Myth
Per Bylund of Colliding Softly blog has an article the Dittoheads are all chirping about, The Myth of Recycling, where he derides the Swedish recycling program as “coercive environmentalism”: This coercive recycling structure is set up in layers, where the consumer (“producer” of waste) gets to do most of the work of sorting, cleaning, and…
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Bloomberg’s Hyperbole on Global Warming
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has been quoted in the New York Sun as making the following statement to the UN General Assembly: “Terrorists kill people. Weapons of mass destruction have the potential to kill an enormous amount of people,” Mr. Bloomberg told reporters after addressing the U.N. General Assembly, but “global warming in the…
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Sun Spot Cycle Prompts Fears of Global Cooling
Yet again my religious faith in Anthropogenic Global Warming has been shaken to its core by the power of Conservative Science. Witness the headline appearing on the Drudge Report last week: “Sun’s ‘disturbingly quiet’ cycle prompts fear of global COOLING…” The article in question points out that there is nothing to show CO2 variations have…
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ideonexus is a 100% All-American Blog
Sam Shepard, Apollo 14 dorancha has correctly pointed out, without implying that I personally was a communist, that the Smurfs are pretty much commies living in a Marxist Utopia. Some bloggers have accused me of socialism in my Tragedy of the Commons Explained with Smurfs article. You know who the real commies are in the…
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Happy Darwin Day
Darwin Day Check out the official Darwin Day Website here.
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The Problem with Inventors’ Day
A Happy American Inventor Day to everyone, which occurs on Thomas Alva Edison’s birthday. The same Edison who’s DC power was finally turned off in November after 125 years of inferiority and who swindled Nicholas Tesla out of $50,000. That’s right, today is in honor of Thomas Edison the hypocrite who bootlegged the film Voyage…
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Evolution Sunday
Today more than 618 Congregations across America and five nations will participate in Evolution Sunday. More than 10,000 ministers have signed the letter supporting the idea that science and religion are not incompatible, and support for Evolution Sunday grew 13 per cent to 530 congregations in 2007. Several years ago, I was married to a…
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Does Nature Trump Nurture in Obesity?
Has Nature really beaten Nuture in the battle of the bulge, as this Times Article, Genes not poor diet blamed for most cases of childhood obesity reveals? The article makes a glossing mention of environmental factors also playing a role in obesity, but overall the article emphasizes how genes are the major constant among obese…
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Tragedy of the Commons Explained with Smurfs
Has been posted at the Science Creative Quarterly. 99 Smurfs on the Wall Our Earth is filled with finite resources that we, as the Human Race, exploit for personal gain. Oil, Fish Stocks, Forests, Clean Air, and water are just a few of the resources that nobody “owns,” but everybody needs in order to survive.…
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The National Debt is a “Grandchild Tax”
“Children are living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John W. Whitehead Dear Babyboomers, I just wanted to wish you congratulations on your impending retirement. Could you do Generation X, Y, the Millennials, and so forth a favor before you go, and please clean up your $7,000,000,000,000 mess before leaving…