December 2009
68 posts
“ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human...”
– No rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide fraction in past 160 years, new research finds
Environment, Science, Uncommon Sense, History
As stated before, this agrees with the thesis “Pollution can attenuate the feedback loop of Photosynthesis vs. Animal Exhaling or 02 genesis vs. C02...
WatchHumor, Human Affairs, History
Was it Big Bird goes Birther or Big Bird’s gonna get a Birther Bath by O’Bama? And what’s the opinion of a vegetable basket worth any whey? Cheezy.
“Is that the actual system we put in place after 9/11? Because if it is, a lot of...”
– Hot Air » Blog Archive » Poll: “The system worked”? Update: Rep. King votes … no
Human Affairs, History, Humor
Hey, what’s the chance that a son of a rich, black, muslim to get a few ‘pay for play’ favors, like a visa, from the USA? Maybe 100 percent. Hey he would...
“To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– — Ralph Waldo Emerson (via siximpossiblethings)
History, Human Affairs, Humor
Transcendentalism as in ‘to see beyond the pain endured at the dentist’ dck
Well, RWEmerson helped Melville write at least Moby Dick, and put a scary, but all too human face on the likes of an Ahab, who in...
“It appears that fellow passengers and air stewards alike tried to tackle the...”
– Human Affairs, Theology
The ‘Religion of Pieces’ at it again. Another hero, who stands up to evil as it manifests itself on the innocent. Let’s hear the ‘outrage’ from our Muslim brothers… anything… what …. real quiet … and they say what …...
“What Would Muhammad Do?
(a checklist) Would Muhammad…? YES! NAH! Muslim...”
– Theology, Human Affairs, Common Nonsense
Oh, and don’t forget S. Rushdie’s ‘Santanic Verses’.
TheReligionofPeace.com - WWMD What Would Muhammad Do?
Scientists discover how the brain encodes memories... →
Psycho Physics, Science, Human Affairs
Certainly stimulating those synapses is important as studies have shown it is the repeated stimulation, not the single lengthy stimulation that builds strength, just like in any other muscle. This holiday, to really appreciate the mystery of the season, I recommend the movie, ‘Brazil’, with Robert DeNiro. It’s a futuristic romance with a...
“It is widely known that President Obama and his surrogates have been holding...”
– Obama sued for secret abortion meetings
History, Law, Human Relations
A lot of good people told you to just give everyone a really high deductible policy and allow medical savings accounts with incentives to save. But you wouldn’t listen; not enough votes for you?
“United Nations: ‘A resolution has been pending in one form or another...”
– Islamic plan to criminalize Gospel message crumbling
History, BEC, Theology, Human Affairs, Common Nonsense
To assume or to grant yourself the authority of god, or ultimate power and/or knowledge is the height of arrogance without proof. This ‘superior’ rights position is one that...
“I asked him whether the draft Copenhagen Treaty’s proposal for what amounted to...”
– Is the European police state going global? | The SPPI Blog
Environment, Human Affairs, Common Nonsense
“Maybe not as brutal. But in all other respects, what it proposes is far too close to Communism for comfort”, replied Dr. Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic.
Something...
Seasons Greeting from MIT →
History, Humor, Theology
The first greeting I have ever received from an institution of learning.
“The human body has some 10 trillion human cells—but 10 times that number of...”
– Bugs Inside: What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Disappear?: Scientific American Science, Environment, Health, Uncommon Sense
My dad once told me that Polio was a ‘clean disease’ and he explained it that it became prevalent in Sweden where extreme cleaning methods were...
a higgs-boson walks into a church, the priest says...
higgsboson:
ummwhat:
the higgs-boson says “but without me how can you have mass?
Humor, Theology
“God is a comedian, who plays before an audience afraid to laugh.” Voltaire
‘Higgs-Boson is catholic, whose mass plays before an audience of comedians afraid of god.’ me
Voltaire was clever, profound; well ‘me’ was not so much. People afraid to laugh and...
“On Bose Einstein Condensates: ‘Finally the eventual success was recognized...”
– S03E11: The Maternal Congruence « The Big Blog Theory BEC, PsychoPhysics, Mathematics, Physics, Science, Theology, Art
I’m glad this general reference to a comedy show brought with it a reference to one of my favorite, if not multi-tongued oracles of Pscyhophysics: Roger Penrose, not in...
“The decision of the Swiss people stood to be interpreted as xenophobic,...”
– Egypt Forces Copts to Hide as Muslims Hit Swiss Minaret Ban - Bloomberg.com History, Theology, Common Nonsense, Human Affairs
‘The Dance of the Minarets” like an invasive virus which slightly starved in Switzerland, looks to the weak in America and other parts of Europe, Jew-bashers,...
“NASA launched a new telescope into space on Monday to scan the cosmos for...”
– NASA launches infrared telescope to scan entire sky - CNN.com Science, Environment, Physics
Heat in space: Galactic Warming, huh? Well maybe not if one of these suckers hits Earth. Could get dicey with molten rock falling from the sky on the friction fit of the rock into the earth as a meteor, or...
“McIntyre first became notorious in 2003 for his statistical critique,...”
– Macleans.ca » Blog Archive Centre of the storm « Environment, History, Mathematics, Science
Looks like Stephen McIntyre, who turned down MIT to return home to take care of his family, is a man whose character is one that more politicians might emulate; it might cost a few sponsors, but gain...
“The ‘chicken and egg’ question of whether a galaxy or its black hole comes first...”
– Astromart News - Which Came First — the Black Hole or the Galaxy? Science, BEC, Theology, History, Physics
If you like ‘chickens and eggs’, you should know that the egg came first, a ‘mutation’ of the original mother chicken, of course.
It was at the breakfast table...
“Indeed, his famous Serenity Prayer (“God grant me the serenity to accept...”
– Of Niebuhr and Nobels: Divining Obama’s Theology — Politics Daily History, Theology, Human Affairs
Interesting association for Obama; and juxtaposed with Bush’s fav. as Jesus, gives you some perspective on the people who have influenced those in power, however you feel about...
“They could be anything. As bizarre as you could imagine—some warped...”
– Physics, Theology, Uncommon Sense, History
This was Kashlinsky last year, when the ‘lens of about 20 degrees’ was not identified and therefore pointing to an origin of great force of some 46.5 billion light years away. Moving at 2 Million mph is also an attention-getter. How far...
“Working hypothesis:
Rockey with burn-through hole in casing (ala Challenger),...”
– Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: The freaky quadruple deaky Norway UFO
Science, History, BEC
It’s cold up there, and this seems to be a thoughtful reality check. Somebody might want to follow the trajectory of that blue clone to see what kind of ‘pot of golden...
“Within seconds a giant spiral had covered the entire sky. Then a green-blue beam...”
– Mystery as spiral blue light display hovers above Norway | Mail Online BEC, Science, Physics
Don’t want to claim I know what this is, but the fact that it was is significant. Unlike a hurricane whose force is also circular, but with an ‘eye’ this had none, but seemed to be...
“Historians also faulted Mr. Reid’s curious reference to the Senate civil...”
– Harry Reid’s History Lesson - WSJ.com Law, History, Common Nonsense, Humor(not)
Sen. Reid’s ‘Transparency’ when he accuses many of something that is factually vacuous, another meaning in Newspeak, right? Oh and Sen. Boxer won’t let go of FRREEE free abortions,...
“Among documentation not yet available for Obama is his kindergarten records,...”
– Closed Chrysler dealers to drive Obama eligibility
History, Human Affairs, Law
‘Transparency’; that means there’s nothing to see, right? Oops maybe that’s in Swahili. Well we know someone ‘applied’ for a Hawaii thing … but nothing was ever produced, no...
“The researchers found that among women with no history of gestational diabetes,...”
– Breastfeeding may curb heart, diabetes risk factors
| Reuters
Medicine, History, Science, Human Affairs, Breastfeeding
This is huge; to get as important a benefit from only breastfeeding a month, and this only looks at the health of the mother. Ear Infections have been non-existent in our...
“Is this a hint that the entropy and low-energy dynamics of all black holes are...”
– Physics - Are black holes really two dimensional? BEC, Physics, Science, Theology, Nerd Stuff
If you recall, a previous blog concerned Susskind’s refutation of Stephen Hawking’s seemingly recanted but not well understood or supported theory that ‘information is lost once it...