Sunday, December 31, 2006

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Uses of fantasy Youngest daughter spent a few years running all ideas she couldn't quite fathom through her imaginary zebrahan herd--th...

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The light of the world How much would we give to live back when Jesus lived, hear His voice, ask Him questions (and be able to understand A...
Saturday, December 30, 2006

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Odd. There was no hint that the post would appear twice--no hint of a glitch. This is blogger beta, so maybe there's a few hitches y...

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Was there nothing else to write about? In the Wisconsin State Journal this morning one of the Hussein stories analysed the probable effects...

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Hussein Saddam Hussein was hanged last night. I decline to worry about procedural issues in his trial—it sounded very much as though h...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

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Ford I wonder if Ford knew what the pardon would do to his career. Politicians miscalculate all the time, perhaps he did too. Or maybe he ...
Friday, December 22, 2006

Joseph

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Who was Joseph? We slide over him--the shepherds get more air time than he does in the Christmas plays. Of course he wasn't the father...
Sunday, December 17, 2006

Autism and the God Connection

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by William Stillman I heard the last two minutes of an NPR show featuring the author, and decided to check out his book. Stillman is n...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

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Embryonic Stem Cells Does it get any clearer than this?
Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Argh!

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Mark Neubauer gave a talk on "Observation of WZ Production at CDF," which included a short bit at the end on the limits they got f...
Monday, December 11, 2006

Another day, more talks

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The BBC reports on a study in Science that says malaria can increase the "viral-load" of viruses in the blood stream, obviously ...
Sunday, December 10, 2006

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Mountains You can stand and watch the mountains for a long time. Even on a clear day they always seem to be slightly changing, just below p...
Saturday, December 09, 2006

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Perhaps not quite what they meant We drove behind a truck labeled Natural Oven Bakery . Youngest son and I discussed whether their natural...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

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Selecting for deafness Other people have commented on the deaf lesbian couple who selected for a deaf child , and covered (better) the poin...
Friday, December 01, 2006

Water is a flavor too

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The water in different places tastes different. So when great chefs compose a recipe, is it only really perfect using the water supplied to...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

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Quite a bite The BBC reports that a team determined that one of the placoderms had a bite of about 80,000 pounds per square inch , and coul...
Saturday, November 25, 2006

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Genetic variability The BBC reports that human genetic variability is far larger than previously expected. I was expecting this, oddly en...
Tuesday, November 21, 2006

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Shame? I guess it wasn't perfectly true that "no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people." OJ...
Saturday, November 18, 2006

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Some things get better I got behind the wheel of an Olds 88 (13K miles!) today, and was reminded that some things do get better. Cars are...

Rules fail

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Every few years somebody tries to reform the tax code, or fiddle with immigration laws, or craft some other scheme to make life more fair fo...