British television’s Channel 4 recently aired a documentary called “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. It can currently be seen in its entirety courtesy of Google Video. You can either stream it or download it via a button on the streaming page. The movie runs just shy of 1:16 in length, and is fascinating throughout. [...]
Posted on March 11th, 2007 by pwyll
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When most people think of a computer, they think of a device made of solid state electronics. Other substrates are possible, for instance, the remarkable TinkerToy computer (wood) or the Analytical Engine, a brass design destined to fail because the materials and machining technology of its day were not sufficient for its creation. I am [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2007 by pwyll
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It seems these days one can hardly avoid hearing about man-made global warming. It’s the new scientific consensus, and consensus now has it that truth is determined by consensus. Critics of the global warming hypothesis are not considered scientists anymore, or even critics. They are called deniers, on par with Holocaust deniers.
Arnold Kling recently [...]
Posted on February 9th, 2007 by pwyll
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Genetically engineered foods are bad, mmmkay?
SCIENTISTS have genetically engineered a dozen cows to be free from the proteins that cause mad cow disease, a breakthrough that may make the animals immune to the brain-wasting disease. An international team of researchers from the US and Japan say they have “knocked out” the gene responsible for making [...]
Posted on January 4th, 2007 by pwyll
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We live in an age when much care must be taken not to offend the sensibilities of the religious. Via PEER:
Washington, DC — Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. Despite promising a prompt [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2006 by pwyll
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A lovely story of how some clever statisticians saved the lives of American P-40 Warhawk pilots in WWII. No math required at all. Brilliant.
Posted on August 18th, 2006 by pwyll
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