Counterproductive Western Nepotism

Counterproductive Western Nepotism

The Domain of Morality Illustrates Religious Nepotism and Nepotistic Religiousness.(The Domain is something that I have touched upon in my other posts, for those of you who have read my work, I…
The joy of programming and simulations

The joy of programming and simulations

When the first small microcomputers became available, they were quickly equipped by graphic abilities and interpreters (and even compilers) which easily generated graphics by a sequence of simple…
seaQuest and the Giant Not-Squid

seaQuest and the Giant Not-Squid

Have you ever known--I mean, been absolutely certain--that you were going to die? That's how seaQuest's Lt. Krieg felt, when a sea monster grabbed his submersible and gave it a good shaking. He…
Mayans Upset at Blame for 2012.

Mayans Upset at Blame for 2012.

Okay, the world is not going to end in 2012.  The source of this info?  The Mayans.  The living Mayans.  You didn't think all that's left is stone tablets, did you?  In that…
Discovering Ardi -- my thoughts

Discovering Ardi -- my thoughts

I liked it. Overall, I think the Discovery Channel did a good job of capturing the painstaking work that goes into scientific research, in this case spanning more than 15 years from discovery to…
New Giant Squid Show Airing in 2010

New Giant Squid Show Airing in 2010

Mark your calendars! A Japanese broadcaster is joining forces with the Science Channel and renowned giant squid biologist Tsunemi Kubodera (the guy who went fishing with a long string and a bag of…
New Giant Squid Show in 2012

New Giant Squid Show in 2012

Mark your calendars!http://www.worldscreen.com/articles/display/22798 Why are people such suckers for giant squid? What's their hook?  an exhibit at the Smithsonian: In Search of Giant Squidhttp…
Overbye on Backward Causality

Overbye on Backward Causality

Many thanks to Dennis for linking, from the NYT site, an article I wrote one year ago to comment a crackpotty paper by an otherwise esteemed scientist.The essay just appeared on the New York Times…
High Tide on Haida Gwaii

High Tide on Haida Gwaii

The enormous difference between high and low tide in Haida Gwaii – up to twenty three vertical feet – means that twice a day, vast swathes of shellfish are unveiled, free for the taking. An ancient…
Computing Speed Limit

Computing Speed Limit

It seems that some people have misinterpreted the recent publication of Levitin and Toffoli's paper as implying that somehow there are alternative technologies or approaches that can salvage Moore's…
Studies on Reality

Studies on Reality

The Constituents of the Mind, (com), as I have stated previously, are composed of several attributes which we have neatly written down. However, we now need to discuss further this study (See article…
Teaching the iGeneration

Teaching the iGeneration

Some instructors have lamented the challenges of teaching students who are constantly logged-on, plugged-in, facebooked, etc. Guess what? I like teaching the iGeneration*. I enjoy using YouTube…
The Littlest Squid

The Littlest Squid

I've mentioned a couple of obscure "squids" here already, the bobtail squid (sepioids, actually more closely related to cuttlefish) and ram's horn squid (spirulids, which form their own evolutionary…
Battle for Survival: Dinosaurs vs. Crurotarsans

Battle for Survival: Dinosaurs vs. Crurotarsans

Dinosaurs, long hailed as the rulers of the Triassic almost lost the title belt to a group of crocodilian upstarts, the crurotarsans. In a short lived battle for survival, geologically speaking, the…