Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Cancer?

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Does cancer have a double whammy? They claim that the "wasting" aspect of cancer is or can be independent of effects due to tumo...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Negative interest

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Sweden has been using negative interest rates . Cut rates too deeply, and savers would end up facing negative returns. In that case, this c...
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Friday, September 25, 2015

Bee careful reporting

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An alderman proposed a revision to city ordinances to allow beekeeping. I agreed to speak in favor, and went to the planning committee meet...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Slander

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In Romans 1:29-32 the list of sins deserving death includes slander. It might seem disproportionate at first, but go read these stories ab...
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Textbooks

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I haven't paid much attention to the Common Core debates. The idea of having some minimum standards has its appeal, but the devil is in...
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Friday, September 18, 2015

Multiverse

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Suppose momentum weren’t conserved. Or angular momentum. You can make up science fiction scenarios, but if you think them out thoroughly ...
Monday, September 14, 2015

Ledge Park

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We picnicked in what seems just a small county park at the end of the Niagara escarpment, but the cracks and gaps in the boulder field look ...

Just for fun

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There's a site devoted to Walt Kelly that's worth taking a look at. You could probably guess that I use Howland as picture/avatar...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

On the scene reporters

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From David Warren : In a previous generation there were foreign correspondents who stayed in one place long enough to acquire some idea of ...
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Saturday, September 12, 2015

Conversions in Germany

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The AP reported that hundreds of immigrants were converting to Christianity in Germany. Some are skeptical, seeing it as a ploy to get a b...
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Friday, September 11, 2015

Predicting the future

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Why futurism has a cultural blindspot In his book Predicting the Future, Nicholas Rescher writes that “we incline to view the future throug...
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Saturday, September 05, 2015

Bacterial showers?

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Along the lines bs king’s comment about teaching high schoolers how to spot bad science reporting, how about a step by step walkthrough of ...
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Friday, September 04, 2015

Is blood thicker than water?

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A Madison police officer was surrounded and attacked by at least one person when trying to arrest a woman who'd attacked someone else. ...
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Passing along wisdom...

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This was posted at work today: First Law: The correct order is: debug, then ship. Second Law: If it isn't broken, don't fix it. T...

What a student should know

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A high school student, that is. My office mate said that every high school driver's ed student should take a ride along with a trucker,...
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Makes _me_ want to hire them

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A car raced past a bus to make a right turn directly in front of it. The sign on the car's side was "Hooper Safety Services."
Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Cuisines

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Somehow or another The Flavor Principle was mislaid last week. Youngest Daughter is trying a month of dinners from different cuisines, and...
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Saturday, August 29, 2015

Drying

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We were silly enough to get a low-noise dishwasher, and found the hard way that grinding up stuff makes noise: no noise means little grindi...
Friday, August 28, 2015

MacDonald

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C.S. Lewis credited George MacDonald with "baptizing" his imagination; that when he read Phantastes it aroused a special sense of...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015

Illumined faces

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I boarded the bus early Wednesday morning (nobody showed up for the 6:00 Bible study) and sat across from a young lady whose rapt face was ...