Via viergacht:

David Klinghoffer, Intelligent Design (rebadged Creationism) advocate from the "Discovery Institute" invited or sought invitation to debate with Dr Gotelli of the University of Vermont.

Dr Gotelli had quite an eloquent response. As commenter #25 summed it up, "Do some science, then we'll talk."

From a comment on a post (not mine) on novelty tunes:

Recently heard someone from Fermilab sing this:

"Do your particles lose their flavor in the chamber overnight?"
"Do they enter with a left hand spin and exit with a right?"

While wandering around the web and various journals, I happened across a post about the term toxin which lead to a filk-ish result. And as regards the last paragraph, yes I have thought about how silly that opening line is.

In this followup to a comment in jmaynard's journal, there is a link to a very interesting review of the design of the human eye. But that's not all. There is a series of essays which are quite interesting.

Of the many, a few really got my attention (these are my titles, not the author's):

Ethics and Belief in God

Science and Engineering (and Theory ( Read more... )

First, let's get this taken care of. A while ago I wrote, not all that well, about some of the events of a certain day a couple years ago. There are plenty of people affected by those events, but I do hope someday that while it may be remembered, that the date of September 11 is more just another day again.

Now, on to the state of the world. I do ( Read more... )