Notes"They discriminate, exclude and belittle. They make a virtue of closed-mindedness and virulent ignorance. They are an ugly, violent lot." Amen.Unfurl
Notes"In the nearly ten years since the publication of Behe’s book, by contrast, I.D. has inspired no nontrivial experiments and has provided no surprising insights into biology."Unfurl
Notes"Researchers have developed a new technique for making very large diamonds of high quality that could soon boost optics technology and gaudily adorn fingers of the wealthy with sparkling rocks up to an inch wide."Unfurl
Notes"In order to live in this science-dominated world, you have to be able to discriminate between science and non-science ... They want to rewrite the rules of science."Unfurl
Notes"It’s always both cute and pathetic listening Fundamentalists try to use the language of empiricism ... sort of like seeing chimpanzees wear little human clothes ..."Unfurl
Notes"How long could a human survive if exposed to vacuum?" Just watched a Farscape marathon and, damn, those people end up exposed to hard vacuum a lot. Wondered how feasible it would be to make an airlock-to-airlock jump, suitless.Unfurl
Notes"The Vikings could have been using a telescope hundreds of years before Dutch spectacle makers supposedly invented the device in the late 16th century."Unfurl
Notes"The voice of science is being stifled in the Bush administration, with fewer scientists heard in policy discussions and money for research and advanced training being cut, according to panelists at a national science meeting."Unfurl
Notes"We must learn from Physics that models are imperfect and only an approximation of something that is much larger, and more complex that we can imagine." Excellent.Unfurl
Notes"A title like 'Rotating Universes and Time Traveling' is certainly enough for some people to consider me a mad scientist or an incurable geek."Unfurl
Notes"The White House has eliminated funding for a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request and directed NASA to focus solely on de-orbiting the popular spacecraft at the end of its life, according to government and industry sUnfurl
Notes"...one explanation for the high incidence of design inferences in American adults may be a lack of quality science education." So forcing Creationism into Science Education only worsens the situation.Unfurl
NotesBet the Bush team wishes that pesky Galileo guy had never been born. Would be nice to have a flat earth still at the center of the universe.Unfurl
Notes"A study in the recent issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest addresses how economic status is no longer a sufficient gauge of a nation's well-being."Unfurl
Notes"What makes these females unafraid when it comes to protecting their young may be low levels of a peptide, or small piece of protein, released in the brain that normally activates fear and anxiety, according to new research published in the August issue oUnfurl
Notes"In the bridge to adulthood, also referred to as early adulthood, many more young people are caught between the demands of employment (e.g., the need to learn advanced job skills) and economic dependence on their family to support them during this transitUnfurl
Notes"The Tongue Display Unit (TDU) can activate areas that are normally reserved for visual information and are unused when someone suffers from congenital blindness. "Unfurl
Notes'"What if, in 10 years, the Chinese are on their way to the moon and the U.S. effort is diminishing. Would that be acceptable to the U.S. public? I don't think so," she said.' Let's go China! We need a competitor in space.Unfurl
Notes"While the new studies provide an initial proof of principle that human application of brain-machine interfaces is possible, the researchers emphasize that many years of development and clinical testing will be required before such neuroprosthetic devicesUnfurl
Notes"NASA has developed a computer program that comes close to reading thoughts not yet spoken, by analyzing nerve commands to the throat." David Brin's novel, Earth, featured one of these interfaces 10 years or so ago. I want.Unfurl