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Month: February 2009

  • Science Stimulus

    Science Debate Allow me to be upfront in my support for much of the Government Spending portion of the 2009 stimulus plan working its way through the fed presently. $125 billion in education spending, a $3 billion increase in NSF funding, $100 billion for energy infrastructure, and $10 billion for basic science research are just…

  • NEMO Science Center: You, Me, Electricity

    Elektra the Robot “The medium, or process, of our time – electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action, and every institution formerly taken for granted. Everything is changing: you, your family, your…

  • JavaScript Turing Machine

    So I was watching the anime series Ghost in the Shell and I don’t feel productive when I’m just watching anime, and I can’t write words when watching videos, so I decided to do some programming purely for fun. What I did was write a little demonstration of a Turing Machine. Before there were computers,…

  • Science and Democracy Empower Each Other

    Dennis Overbye has a superb commentary in the NYT Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy that reminds me of the Mark Twain quote, “the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals.” Overbye writes: [Science], which has transformed the world in the last few centuries, does indeed teach values. Those values,…

  • Bayesian Probability Beat Somma’s Stochaistic

    Here I thought I was so cool coming up with “Somma’s Stochaistic,” the idea that science is inversely proportional to BS: Somma’s Stochaistic Now I find out somebody else all ready came up with it and expressed it my more elegantly in something called: Bayesian Probability. The equation for this concept looks like this: Bayesian…

  • Punxsutawney Phil Disproves Anthropogenic Climate Change

    THAT’S RIGHT!!! SIX MORE WEEKS OF WINTER!!! Where’s your Anthropogenic Climate Change now scientists??? Huh? HUH?? HUH??? Punxsutawney Phil says HUH!?!? Credit: alemaxale An you know what else??? It snowed somewhere in America last week. That’s right. IT SNOWED IN JANUARY SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA!!! In fact, as of my writing this, people are still without…

  • NEMO Science Center: Studio Bits & Co

    Aesthedes Work Station for Graphic Design (1982) This very small room, hidden in the back of NEMO, virtually ignored, was a little something for Information Science. It runs from the 1940s to the 1980s, bits of history people are going to cherish in the future. The more I get into Computers as my science, the…