Random Thoughts
Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have great universities, seats of great learning where men go to become great thinkers, And when they come out, they think deep thoughts, and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.
- The Wizard of Oz to the Scarecrow
Hank |
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05182009/business/mags_ads_plunge_169779.htm
Declining advertising continues to rock monthly magazines, which have seen their ad-page count tumble 23 percent for year-to-date compared with a year ago, according to data to be released today by Media Industry Newsletter.
The numbers signal the pace of the decline is accelerating in this year's first half compared with last year's first half, when the monthly mags' ad-page count tanked 11 percent.
Only eight of the 118 consumer monthlies monitored by MIN posted gains during the reporting period. They are…
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric revels the organization of the entire tapestry.
- Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, p.34
Tired of reading about science ? In need of a boost to your ego ? You think you are smarter than me ? Can you play chess at a reasonable level ? Or, do you have a chess program and you don't mind cheating ?If you answered "yes" to the above questions, why don't you try to beat at chess a tenured particle physicist with a Ph.D. ? I am willing to take your challenge.
Just download the dasher or the blitzin interface at www.chessclub.com, and log in to ICC - the world's largest online chess club. I will be waiting for you there. My handle on ICC is "tonno". If you type "finger tonno" on the ICC…
Fellow Scientific Bloggers: learned and/or discovered is the place to be. Go forth and blog well.
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tomrees |
Following on from the previous post, I wanted to pull out another couple of 'pointers to God' that Francis Collins and BioLogos like to present as part of their argument for belief. I like them because, far from being pointers to god, they are in fact powerful examples of the power of science and the weakness of religion as a tool to help us understand morality. They're great examples of how science is encroaching into what was once regarding as purely religious territory.
First example is this one - "Why is it wrong to torture an individual for the greater good?"
Evil also poses problems…
In spite of not having any where near as much physics education some people feel a need to prove they know more than I do. These people are never physicist themselves, they have nothing to prove. Usually they are someone with little education and/or self esteem.For example my last blog entry "Dark Matter and Dark Energy as Undiscovered Particles of Scalar and Vector Fields.".In which I am describing quantum field theory in curved space-time. There are no matrices being used here yet. I get this hostility laden response.
Garnered this anonymous…
With the new movie ‘Star Trek’ opening in theaters across the nation, one thing movie goers will undoubtedly see is the Starship Enterprise racing across the galaxy at the speed of light but two Baylor University physicists believe they have an idea that can turn traveling at the speed of light from science fiction to science, and that their idea does not break any laws of physics.
Dr. Gerald Cleaver, associate professor of physics at Baylor, and Dr. Richard Obousy, a Baylor post-doctoral student, theorize that by manipulating the space-time dimensions around the spaceship with a…
LOS ANGELES, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --
Taking a cue from the number one women's wardrobe staple, the little black dress, Hurley and Bar Refaeli introduce the Little Black Bikini, a timeless essential for beaches everywhere.
The limited-edition Hurley Little Black Bikini by Bar Refaeli will retail for US$120, with a portion of proceeds donated to Boarding for Breast Cancer, a youth-focused non-profit that promotes early detection and an active lifestyle as the best prevention for breast cancer. It will debut on May 1, 2009 at select boutiques worldwide. As of June 2, it will also be available…
How many times have you had some pithy comment in prose be misinterpreted when you just know that if the other people could simply hear your voice or see your face they would know how brilliant you are?
It happens a lot and emoticons, along with their evil cousin ALL CAPITALIZATION AND !!! PUNCTUATION, were invented to try and close the communications gap.
Now European researchers at the PASION project have developed a suite of tools to add non-verbal cues to email, phone calls, chats and other channels of electronic communication. Digital communication hasn’t the richness of…