Today is the first day of the Dover trial over Intelligent Design vs Darwin and Wallace’s ideas.
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The trial’s focus is on a school policy that requires science teachers to read a statement presenting intelligent design - the concept that the universe is so complex it must have been created by an unidentified intelligent being - […]
Finally, a live Giant Squid has been photographed. How cool is that?
I’ve been thinking lately about things that have caused fundamental changes on our planet. Things whose discoveries or mastery of still reverberate through history until today and will continue so into the future. Things that fundamentally altered the way humans live their lives.
These aren’t in the correct order as they’re off the top of my […]
As if using schools full of impressionable children as a political playground isn’t bad enough there’s this.
In October 2004, the Dover school board voted 6-3 to require teachers to read a brief statement about intelligent design to students before classes on evolution. The statement says Darwin’s theory is “not a fact” and has inexplicable “gaps,” […]
So now people are complaining that the iPod Nano is too fragile.
“It is way too fragile. Apple markets it in a pocket. Hell, Steve Jobs himself pulls it out of his when he announces it,” wrote the site host, who himself was smitten with the Nano upon its release. “It was in my pocket as […]
A Hollywood producer has been charged after allegedly taking $5.5m (£3.3m) from investors for a TV drama he said was backed by US President George Bush.
But is it a scam or not?
What I don’t get is the following:
More than 70 investors, including churches, had invested money in the series on the basis that DHS - […]
Here’s an interesting set of numbers. As of today, September 23rd 2005:
2,107 total troops killed since the start of the Iraq war; not sure how many since the Mission was Accomplished though
1,912 of those are USA troops, for a difference of 195
1,066 Deaths from Katrina (not sure if that includes the 24 dead on the […]
Ok I offiically give up any and all hope I had for Hollywood. Period.
First off they’re remaking John Carpenter’s 1980 horror film The Fog with a new modern version that well, will probably be just as lame as the original. Here’s the link.
It’s official. Hollywood has run out of ideas.
In other official news, now Hollywood […]
So The Sci-Fi channel has an “original” production called
Path of Destruction that’s coming on soon. What’s it about? A giant cloud of nanoparticles that are loose in the atmosphere which cause nasty weather patterns.
Michael Chrichton has a novel called Prey out that’s about what?
The techies at this plant have developed nanomachines, smaller than dust specks, […]
So really, is subsumation an official word or not?
For that matter why does Apple’s iChat not flag “disengate” as an unknown word?