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Imaginary Time at the Sandwich Shop (A Lesson in Cosmology)

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Category: Science

I’ve been re-reading A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, the revised and updated edition from 1998. Oh, I know that a lot of advances have been made in theoretical cosmology, quantum mechanics, and high energy particle physics over the past ten years, but I still think that much of what Hawking wrote applies. [...]

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Bees and other stingers

Friday, April 27th, 2007
Category: Philosillyphizing, Science

I’ve been following, off and on, the issue with the vanishing bees. Colony Collapse Disorder is a pretty scary thing; while we don’t rely on bees exclusively for our crop pollination needs, they’re still crucial, and if the bees all go away, then things will be mighty tough. I don’t believe we’ll face major famine [...]

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Let’s Break Your Brain

Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Category: Random Amusements, Science, Travels of an Intellectual Vagabond

Via David Brin’s blog (have you not read anything by David Brin? No? What the hell’s wrong with you?) I found this article regarding another idea about the ultimate fate of our universe; rather than the ultimate heat death as has been occasionally predicted, or the Big Crunch as has alternately predicted, this new model [...]

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Snips and Dribbles

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Category: Geek, Just a Day in My Life, Politics, Religion, Science

In which I expound on cynicism, politics, science, and other random topics. Because I’m bored and unfocused.

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Supraluminal

Saturday, January 7th, 2006
Category: Geek, Philosillyphizing, Science

I just think that the word “supraluminal” — which means “faster than light” — is cool. Isn’t it? It’s actually a really pretty word. Something you’d name your daughter, right?
The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, more or less. Nothing in our universe can travel faster than that, not if they want to [...]

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

Monday, October 17th, 2005
Category: Book Reviews, History, Science

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, historian Jared Diamond attempts to answer the question of why some societies succeed over others. More specifically, he sets out to discover why the European civilization apparently managed to spread out over most of the globe, conquering along its way, while the societies and civilizations on other continents — the [...]

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The Top 10 Intelligent Designs (or Creation Myths)

Monday, October 10th, 2005
Category: Philosillyphizing, Religion, Science

The Top 10 Intelligent Designs (or Creation Myths)
Flying Spaghetti Monsters aside, this article from Live Science presents a list of the top ten creation myths of all time, from the Norse pantheon to the Judeo/Christian/Moslem ex nihilo myth.
Y’know, as a Christian, I do believe in “intelligent design” (insofar as a human defined quality like “intelligence” [...]

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Just a little bit…

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004
Category: Nerdgasm, Religion, Science, Travels of an Intellectual Vagabond

I’ve taken to hanging out in the talk.origins newsgroup (you can find the website here). It’s a lively place, full of debate between Creationism and evolution. Personally, I have no trouble reconciling my religious beliefs with evolution, but there are a lot of people out there who do. And furthermore, some of the most ardent [...]

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As Big a Grain as You Can

Wednesday, July 10th, 2002
Category: Rants, Science

Last week, the Worldwide Fund for Nature (otherwise known by their old initials: WWF) released a report which states that our planet is going to run out of natural resources within 150 years, and that by the year 2050, all of the world’s population will face severe restrictions on their lifestyle, just because resources will [...]

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The Mystery of the Vanishing Vultures

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2002
Category: Science, Travels of an Intellectual Vagabond

James Lovelock proposed the Gaia Hypothesis in the mid-80’s. Lovelock, a mathematician and an engineer, had proposed a model of the global ecosystem which maintains itself homeostatically; in other words, whenever one part of the system goes out of whack, another part of the system fills in. That, at least, is the basic idea of [...]

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Ecological Engineering

Thursday, January 10th, 2002
Category: I Should Have Been a Firefighter, Science

The other day after church, Jennifer and I had lunch with her parents. Jennifer’s mother asked me about the classes I’m taking in chemistry and mathematics, and what I plan on pursuing in graduate school. "What, exactly, is an ecological engineer?" she asked me.
Well, according to the website for the website for the International Ecological [...]

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