Sunday, October 03, 2010

Hawking off the Reservation Again

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The media have been aflurry with Hawking's latest pronouncement. The Wall Street Journal features an excerpt of his recently published...
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Monday, August 02, 2010

Fallacious Application of "non-Euclidean" to Physical Space

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Physicists sometimes talk about space—by which they of course mean physical space—as Euclidean or non-Euclidean. The problem with this way o...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Feminism and the Experimental Exemplar

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In response to my last post an anonymous commentator took me to task for my statements about women. With admirable concision, she says, ...
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Sunday, May 09, 2010

Technology vs. Motherhood

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Today is not only Mothers Day, it is ironically also the 50th anniversary of the FDA's approval of the Birth Control Pill, that technolo...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Maybe a Blockhead, Maybe Not

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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. — Samuel Johnson , April 5, 1776, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) Perhaps I'm wis...
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Monday, March 01, 2010

Climate Crisis or Truth Crisis?

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In case you missed it, there was an excellent summary at American Thinker of the recent climate-science-scandal revelations. The bad guy i...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Getting U.S. Space Exploration Back on Track

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President Obama has recently announced a new budget for NASA with radically shifted priorities. The space agency would get out of the busin...