Continuing with the strange story of the movie Expelled which I first addressed a couple months back…
The saga of Ben Stein’s Expelled just gets curiouser and curiouser. The back-channel story here deserves to become a movie in its own right. I have collected several links which tell the story (so far) exceedingly well. Here is my suggested […]
02.18Pharyngula
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/
A truly delightful find! I spent this entire evening reading about the hilarious saga of PZ and Expelled (read the responses! esp. #90 :)
Tonight I added pharyngula to my blogroll (in place of the disappointing “The Future and You” which, along with it’s now-weekly podcast, has become very unremarkable).
According to the Mayan Calendar, 5 years from today, time is undefined. It has ended.
As a child, I remember being fascinated with little circular-sliderule type perpetual calendars. These little marvels would allow you to construct the current calendar month. They typically had a useful range of several decades. This one is good until 2046.
The Maya […]
A new working brain model is revealed today inTechnology Review. This is absolutely amazing and exciting. More hard evidence for accelerating change, the day is quickly coming when human neuroscience will be modelled on a PC.
10.15Blog Action Day
There’s a big hullabaloo today in the global blogosphere. “Blog Action Day”. While it’s an interesting experiment in internet-assisted awareness generation, tomorrow and next week it will mostly be forgotten. Let’s watch.
Sure, I care about the environment. But one recycled newspaper at a time isn’t going to get us there. If the projections of technology’s […]
10.01The End of Faith
A recent world-wide movement is gaining attention. This is very shocking to some (including individuals close to me). The world is loosing Faith. It occurs to me that this is merely another example of inevitable accelerating change. This trend started many centuries ago with the earliest philosophers who formed the first rational science-based foundation for […]