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Category: General
I love Harper’s
What you will find below are sample quotes from Precalculus For Christians, a text book published by that bastion of scientific thought, Bob Jones University, as reported in this month’s Harper’s magazine. Apparently the text is designed to help students “conform their thinking to biblical precepts.” (As an aside, I am stunned to realize I got my first Harper’s subscription… Read more →
Religious Red Code
You know, looking at this map ( from the Glenmary Research Center) of the US by primary religious group, all I can see is a really scary game of Core Wars being played out. I’d love to see a time-lapse animation of this–I bet the explosion of the Southern Baptists and the slow creeping of the Mormons to infect Utah’s… Read more →
Even Greenspan is worried about the dollar
Of course he won’t come out and say it in those terms, but his statement at a banking conference in Frankfurt (as reported in Reuters) is about as close as he can get” “It seems persuasive that, given the size of the U.S. current account deficit, a diminished appetite for adding to dollar balances must occur at some point,” Greenspan… Read more →
It’s a blog
So, while I’ve been playing with this site over the last month, I’ve been telling myself that I’m just learning how to use WordPress so I can set up a blog for a friend. Tonight I solved my last remaining technical problem (nerdy details below) and now I am forced to admit that I am enjoying this process enough that… Read more →
Interesting and Scary
A short interview from New Scientist with a Shin Bet interrogator. My understanding is that you can make a lose analogy between the Shin Bet and the FBI, in the same way you can losely compare the Mossad to the CIA. (I do wonder, though, how this interview fits into the “Meet people shaping the future of science” category.) The… Read more →
Oh, thank God
Reality TV Binge Leads to Higher Casualty Rate Finally, some good news. As broadcasters increasingly binge on unscripted shows starring ordinary folks willing to do almost anything for cash, romance or 15 minutes of fame, the burgeoning genre of reality TV appears to be wearing a bit thin with U.S. audiences. At the very least, networks are seeing that the… Read more →
When does the new Enlightenment start?
More on the evolution issues we’ve been following. (I.e. America sinks into the Dark Arges.) Boston.com has an article outlining all the various evolution battles going on right now. More frightening than the idea that there are still people who think science is a matter of opinion, or is irrelevant in the face of faith, is the sheer number of… Read more →
Bible stickers
Following up our earlier post on the evolution textbook sticker battle. I read with much amusement this post on BoingBoing about the controversy. And since it amused me so, I made up a Word document containing labels with Gary’s text, preformatted for Avery 8161 labels. For those of you without Word, I used the FastPDF service to convert the Word… Read more →
Living in the wired world
Take a moment and enjoy what we normally take for granted. I decide I want an image of P. Terentius Afer for the new header. There was a time when this would have involved a library trip, and very likely a long wait for inter-library loan processing. Today, I pop into Google images, and I have my image in less… Read more →
People I Miss Today
You know, if you go into the tunnels that come out behind the falls… you will get wet. Read more →
Tension
Nothing going on today except election tension. One way or another the campaign will be over tomorrow. Let’s see if the election is. Read more →
More on comment spam
Well, apparently I have been attacked by someone who has put comments into the system with a post id referencing a post that doesn’t exist yet. As soon as the post appears, the comment also appears. Clever. So far I’ve done several things to stop this: 1) enabled built in keyword auto-moderation–if the post contains any of the keywords, the… Read more →
Comment spam already?
So far I’m only writing this blog to learn WordPress, so I can use it to implement a blog for a friend. I admit that, to my surprise, I am enjoying the process, and am now toying with the idea of actually doing this for real. So far, though, I haven’t told anyone about this, except Alex and Sean. And… Read more →
