Archive for November, 2006
NASA To the moon and beyond
YouTube - NASA To the moon and beyond
I found this on Digg today and it got me a bit nostalgic for the real spirit of innovation. It’s like we’re back in the early 1960s, only this time, just slightly more efficient. Just looking at the lunar lander concept makes me go all ho hum. We’ve [...]
Gifts from rich highlight plight of world’s poor
Gifts from rich highlight plight of world’s poor - Yahoo! News
If you’re reading this, then chances are, over 95% of the world is poorer than you. I should say congratulations. But it’s indicative of a problem we really need to fix. That problem is our understanding of money and wealth. And that has huge implications [...]
Powell says world should recognize Iraq at civil war
Powell says world should recognize Iraq at civil war - Yahoo! News
I think I understand what’s going on here. The “Powell Doctrine” is essentially, “you break it, you bought it,” meaning don’t go into a country unless you’re really prepared to win. But, like in a china shop, the “you bought it” part is generally [...]
Cosmic Duo Spins Matter From Light
Discovery Channel : Cosmic Duo Spins Matter From Light
"There are several tens of similar systems in the Milky Way detected primarily (in) X-rays," said Demo Kazanas an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. "This is important because it is detected at photon energies a billion times larger than X-rays. It is also important because [...]
Read More..>>Are Bush Supporters Mentally Ill?
NEW HAVEN ADVOCATE
Lohse says his study is no joke. The thesis draws on a survey of 69 psychiatric outpatients in three Connecticut locations during the 2004 presidential election. Lohse’s study, backed by SCSU Psychology professor Jaak Rakfeldt and statistician Misty Ginacola, found a correlation between the severity of a person’s psychosis and their preferences for [...]
I sue you; you sue me; EFF wins vic-tor-ee…
EFF: 1; Barney 0
"We wish we hadn’t had to file a lawsuit to finally get Barney’s lawyers to stop harassing a man who was just expressing his opinion about a cultural phenomenon," said EFF Staff Attorney Corynne McSherry. "Hopefully Lyons Partnership has learned its lesson and will have more respect for fair use in [...]
Global Warming Goes to Court - New York Times
Global Warming Goes to Court - New York Times
The Bush administration has been on a six-year campaign to expand its powers, often beyond what the Constitution allows. So it is odd to hear it claim that it lacks the power to slow global warming by limiting the emission of harmful gases. But that is [...]
Six-Doff
If you don’t know what 6DOF means, it’s shorthand for Six Degrees of Freedom — there are the basic six that correspond to the three axes of movement (along X, Y and Z), plus the three axes of rotation (around X, Y and Z). Your mouse, for example, has two: horizontal and vertical (X and [...]
Read More..>>An Inconvenient Offer
The Conscious Earth: An Inconvenient Truth Squeezed from Classrooms
The producers of An Inconvenient Truth have offered to supply American classrooms with 50,000 copies of the movie free of charge. That offer has been rejected by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the nation’s leading science education teachers group, citing a risk to funding from [...]
The God who Wasn’t There (Video)
A documentary and discovery of God - Google Video
This one man’s journey from born again (at least three times) Christian to documentary filmmaker.
Personally, I have no big problem accepting a man named Jesus existing at the appropriate time and place and even being a great teacher of morality, though [...]