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Posted in People on Mar 19th, 2008
Arthur Clarke passed away this morning. He was by far my favorite science fiction writer. It was very clear to me why. Whereas most science fiction writers wrote stories that involved completely removing oneself from reality, Clarke’s stories usually took reality and expanded it. Things didn’t go “boom” in Arthur Clarke’s space. Smoke didn’t billow [...]
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, History, Intelligent Design, People on Dec 5th, 2007
The View is a tv show that has offered the world all kinds of insight into what really goes on in the world. A while back we learned that fire can’t melt steel. I need an image here:
Now, we learn that Christians predate Greeks thanks to Sherri Shepherd:
“Keep in mind that probably when [Epicurus] was [...]
Three years ago I wrote a post about three American scientists winning a Nobel for their Theory of Everything. Now, this thing was amazingly complex, and even harder for me to believe. It involved something called string theory, quarks, dark matter, and lots of other stuff. I gave up even trying to follow it all. [...]
That’s the headline that accompanied this:
While there are an estimated 7,000 languages spoken around the world today, one of them dies out about every two weeks, according to linguistic experts struggling to save at least some of them……
Losing languages means losing knowledge, says K. David Harrison, an assistant professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College.
“When we [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Intelligent Design, People, Travel on Sep 4th, 2007
SOME people have been telling us for a while that the ice is melting at the poles due specifically to global warming. Al Gore says so too. Based on that information, Adrian Flanagan set out to do what no man could have done before, sail the North Pole. However, he’s hit a snag:
A BRITISH yachtsman [...]
Posted in Computers, Education, People, Technology on May 11th, 2007
Man, I love stuff like this:
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Posted in People on Apr 29th, 2007
Not quite the space oddity just yet, Stephen Hawking took his first step yesterday. There are so many cool aspects to this situation I don’t even know where to start. So, I don’t think I will. This is just very cool, Stephen! I hope he gets there.
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Posted in People on Jan 22nd, 2007
Ron Witherspoon, Jr., of Birmingham, Alabama, saves at-risk kids by introducing them to the thrill of rocket launching. His inspiration was the movie October Sky based on the book, Rocket Boys.
This is so very cool. And, to me, it’s what science needs to be all about. You need to find the Parade Magazine article [...]
Posted in People on Dec 1st, 2006
British billionaire Richard Branson says he’s sending over a medical officer to talk with physicist Stephen Hawking about getting him into space. That’s how the founder of Virgin Galactic responded to Hawking’s comment that "maybe Richard Branson will help" him achieve his long-held goal of reaching the final frontier, even though he’s a quadriplegic who [...]
Posted in People on Oct 24th, 2006
"Very few people have analyzed the insides of this new space policy. I urge all of you who are interested in space to analyze it very carefully. It has the potential, down the road, to create the [same] kind of fuzzy thinking and chaos in our efforts to exploit the space resource as the fuzzy [...]