Women as chattel – (Nobody Knows Anything)
My friend Diane nutshelled the insidious religi-political attack on women by a bunch of misogynistic poopy-heads. I’m frankly ashamed that so many …
Read more...Why don’t Americans elect scientists to office? – io9
You know…just about anything other than lawyers, fer cryin’ out loud. Since 1981, lawyers have accounted for 46-to-48 percent of the members …
Read more...Pick up the pitchforks: David Pogue underestimates Hollywood (Clay Shirky)
Hollywood wants to take the law into their own hands — they had our representatives add a vigilante clause, for God’s sake, …
Read more...Acad sounds alarm about fragility of digital prod’n (Variety)
On of my loudest and most obnoxious klaxon wails is about the fragility of digital media…not just movies, but text, photos, research, …
Read more...Study: NM is ‘dull,’ ‘barren’ and ‘close to Arizona’ (KOB.com)
Actually, we are those things. Let’s be honest. Even so, it’s a better state than many, IMO. Study: NM is ‘dull,’ ‘barren’ …
Read more...Switched at Birth – Mid-1st-Season Q&A With Katie and Vanessa
As I post this, the series Switched at Birth is about to return from hiatus to complete its first season run (starting January …
Read more...What Is Space Exploration Worth? (The Planetary Society Blog)
“Our space program is one of the things that makes us great, that sets us far apart from other productive countries, that …
Read more...The nightmarish SOPA hearings (The Washington Post)
“There ought to be a law, I think, that in order to regulate something you have to have some understanding of it.” …
Read more...Spreading the global warming gospel (MiamiHerald.com)
“People ask me if I believe in global warming. I tell them, ‘No, I don’t,’ because belief is faith; faith is the …
Read more...What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Communicating With Other Cultures
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention my book, Que Será Serees, in this discussion (and I didn’t want to do a self-promotion …
Read more...Clayton Christensen: How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy (Forbes)
I have been saying for decades that business schools, essentially, mostly just teach the brethren how to cook the books in a …
Read more...STS-27 Shuttle Report – Legendary commander tells story of shuttle’s close call (Spaceflight Now)
Yikes. No wonder NASA was so cavalier. If a shuttle could (just barely) survive this, then it would surely survive just about …
Read more...Inside the mind of the octopus (Orion Magazine)
Octopuses have long fascinated me. I wonder what it must be like not to have a skeleton. One thing has been clear …
Read more...Kari Byron and Mayim Bialik understand nerdy girls (CNN.com Blogs)
“I think of geekdom as something you can be obsessed with, something to collect, what do you watch, what do you look …
Read more...The Search for a More Perfect Kilogram (Wired)
Of all the scientific dragons to chase, precision must be one of the most vexing. The Search for a More Perfect Kilogram …
Read more...The Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy Might Be Illusions (Space.com)
I’ve been arguing that accelerating expansion is an illusion for a couple of decades. Lacking sufficient math, I was limited to just …
Read more...Supermarkets start bagging self-serve checkouts (AP)
This trend is sad news indeed. There are rarely enough check-outs open and many of them are slow. I still have to …
Read more...Belief in God Boils Down to a Gut Feeling – (LiveScience)
“people who went with their intuition on the math test were found to be one-and-a-half times more likely to believe in God …
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