I was curious and did some googling today (yes, that is a verb in our household) and found that one of my scientific papers from my graduate student career has been cited in Wikipedia. It makes me feel good to know that my years of toil in the basement of the physics building produced […]
Good luck, Steve, in your new small business gig!
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It’s even more different at a very small company like the one I work for, where the entire company can meet around a single conference table. MFH works for a somewhat larger small company, one that’s large enough to have its own employee handbook with annoying […]
The June/July 2006 issue of Seed magazine had a little blurb about a study on intercessory prayer, which found that heart surgery patients that were prayed for didn’t have any fewer complications, and that patients who knew for sure that they would be prayed for had a higher rate of complications than those that knew […]
Well, I read Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons (the book before The Da Vinci Code). Basically the story is a race against time to decipher historical clues and track down the Illuminati, who have stolen a significant amount of antimatter from CERN and planted it somewhere in the Vatican as a time bomb, while […]
Lately MFH has been thinking a lot about electricity and magnetism. He has been asking me all sorts of questions, everything from how batteries work to why magnetic fields aren’t quantized. We should do a podcast of it sometime; our discussions have been all over the map, from electromagnetism to quantum mechanics to […]
Friday night we heard a short lecture from Alan Padgett, author of Science and the Study of God: A Mutuality Model of Science and Theology. He talked about different models of interaction between science and theology, and about working toward a “mutuality” model. The models include: independence, contact with conflict, conflict […]
Through Swiftee, another instance of the tired “Intelligent Design is Creationism, and not Science” refrain, apparently in a science and engineering commencement speech at the University last spring:
I don’t mean in raising this issue to discredit, disparage, or in any way deny what each of us may believe about the higher or deeper […]
I went to Michael Behe’s lecture on Intelligent Design (sometimes abbreviated as ID) at the University last week. It was quite interesting, although as a public lecture there weren’t as many gory details as I would have liked. He stuck fairly close to the material in his book, Darwin’s Black Box. His […]
This guy is getting sympathy from various quarters, because of the execrable teaching he received as a chemical engineering student, but to me it sounds like he wasn’t cut out to be an engineer:
Reader, let us not dwell upon the endless problem sets, the wretched grades, and the weary nights spent screaming at my inscrutable […]
I came across this through the Anchoress. A very good essay on being skeptical about evolution.
An excerpt:
Consequently, discussion often turns to vague and murky assertion. Starlings are said to have evolved to be the color of dirt so that hawks can’t see them to eat them. This is plausible. But guacamayos and […]