Category Archives: Science

A Free eBook on Sustainable Energy

By Frank DiTraglia | February 21, 2009

Cambridge Physicist David MacKay has written a book on sustainable energy, and is giving it away on his website. Just shy of 400 pages, it’s an extended back-of-the-envelope calculation comparing potential sustainable energy generation capacity to likely consumption.
In case that sounds a bit boring, let me assure you that it isn’t. MacKay’s writing [...]

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The Museumatorium

By James | December 14, 2008

I was in the DC Metropolitan region this weekend visiting my parents, and we decided to take a trip to the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History.  I hadn’t been there for ages and was pleasantly surprised at what I found.
A lot of the exhibits were the same ones I remember form my childhood, only now [...]

Also posted in Culture, December 2008, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

What we need more of is SCIENCE!

By James | September 5, 2008

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is scheduled to become fully operational on Wednesday. This is a tremendously exciting event, but unfortunately it’s very rare that cutting-edge science gets the kind of attention it deserves in the media – and all too often the information gets distorted, as this article at The Times (of London, [...]

Also posted in Politics, September 2008 | 4 Comments

Midweek blogging

By Chris Muir | August 29, 2008

As we try to reformat the blog a bit, I will be making weekly posts on tuesday, wednesday, or thursday.  Well, technically it’s friday morning right now, but close enough.  I will continue to post about a few topics that interest me, mainly biology (especially evolution), environmental issues, and how either of these topics intersect [...]

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