October 2008
62 posts
International Space Station Reference: Ham Radio →
The man who's always Right →
Happy
Halloween →
Firefox extension: Read it Later (beta) →
Economist: America should take a chance →
DOWNSTAIRS DUSTUP →
Tonight at 10 p.m.! I’m playing with Betsy; also Chris Maher and the Wowz.
Is NASA's Ares doomed? →
Anil Dash: "What Sarah Palin Is Saying" →
“Put simply, if Palin says ‘Barack Obama consorts with terrorists’, she is making the assertion that he supports acts of violence against American citizens and the media will refute this obviously false assertion. If, instead, Palin says he ‘pals around with terrorists’, she’s used code-switching to mask the seriousness of the charge, obfuscating her meaning...
Republican fears of historic Obama landslide... →
The Triumph of Ignorance: Why morons succeed in... →
“Like most people on this side of the Atlantic I have spent my adult life mystified by American politics. The US has the world’s best universities and attracts the world’s finest minds. It dominates discoveries in science and medicine. Its wealth and power depend on the application of knowledge. Yet, uniquely among the developed nations (with the possible exception of Australia), learning is...
Dalai Lama Gives Up On China Talks, Says Beijing... →
Andy Cotton: "Sole Survivor" →
Eastern Brains: Probing the Partnership Between... →
Harvard Professor Anne Harrington discusses the relationship between neuroscience, cognitive science, and Buddhism in the first lecture of the Religious and Psychological Well-Being Project series sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and Psychology at the Danielsen Institute. She recalls a 2005 Society for Neuroscience conference, where the Dalai Lama spoke on The Neuroscience of...
Booth: You are a transcendentalist.
Ninly: You are an existentialist.
Booth: You are a romantic.
Ninly: You are a philosophe.
The Empty Bell: Blowing Zen →
ABC Radio National program about the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), on Into the Music with Robyn Johnston.
A rant about science educators →
“Scientific literacy is about teaching the content of modern science. That naturally entails the rudiments of experimental method, logic, the uses of observation and sources of random and systematic error. It does not mean you have to have a good definition of what a ‘fact’ is or the status of theories versus models or what makes something ‘scientific.’ The only...
Adventuring Party Politics: The Campaign is... →
GM: OK, the bugbear attacks you. What do you do?
OBAMA: I send one of my 672 henchmen after it.
MCCAIN: OK, seriously. Why does he have so many henchmen? I’m a level 72 ranger and he’s only a level 8 paladin.
OBAMA: Well, if you’d bought the Grassroots Organizing and Oratory/Colgate Smile proficiencies…
American Dream a Biological Impossibility,... →
Joe the Plumber and GOP "Authenticity" →
“Recently, on the front page of Section C of the Wall Street Journal, a hedge...”
– Andrew Lahde
Flying Monkey Arts Center →
Huntsville, Alabama
Extreme music from Africa →
American Culture Derails Girl Math Whizzes, Study... →
Joan Didion: Election by sound bite →
The Big To-Do List: Scientific Challenges Facing... →
Flash Cookies: The Silent Privacy Killer →
Is Drudge Priming a McCain "Reboot" Narrative? →
Project Censored's Top 25 Censored Stories for... →
Download Streetlab's first single, "NYSound"! →
Obama, McCain Transition Efforts Are Worlds Apart →
States' Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal →
McCain Losing It? →
Prisoners? Indeed, my friends. Indeed…
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