Realistic Gaming
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Artificial Intelligence | No Comments »This is a bit of a departure from the theme of this site, but I was just reading discussions about adding realistic physics in computer games and I started thinking about what it would take for a game reach the ...
Politicians fail America
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Politics, Psychology | No Comments »BBC News reports that the tough government plan for bailing out the US banking sector has been rejected by a vote in Congress. Shares fell across the board by an average of well over 5% - a colossal fall in ...
Ancient rocks
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, General Science | No Comments »According to this article on BBC News, scientists have managed to break the record for the oldest rock ever found. The rock, a greenstone, pushes back the date of the oldest rocks known by 250 million years. At 4.28 billion ...
Good things
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Why do good things always keep happening to me? It's odd you never hear anyone ever say that, though you often notice people complaining about how bad things apparently happen to them all the time. Now, given that there is no ...
Magic in schools
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Posted in Education | No Comments »I found this article on the Daily Mail site. No, don't worry, I don't actually read the Daily Mail - I found this from a link. But anyway, the article is talking about how we should have magic training in schools ...
Sheldrake on Psychics
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in Paranormal, Psychology | No Comments »I stumbled across this video of Rupert Sheldrake, renowned researcher into the paranormal, talking about how terrible it is that mainstream science ignores claims of psychic powers. He seems to be advocating the Brian Josephson-style position that these things are ...
Conspiracy theories
Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Creationism, General | 2 Comments »I've been thinking about exactly how a conspiracy theory starts up and I think I can explain it by continuing the story from a few days ago about the murder trial. Let's extend that analogy a little bit. The judge hears ...
Asteroid mission
Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in Astronomy | No Comments »This could prove interesting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7623411.stm European scientists are planning to send a probe to a near-Earth asteroid sometime in the next decade, and to return a sample to Earth. This is particularly promising as it is believed that many asteroids may store ...
Close to home
Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in Health | No Comments »I had a shock today when I was wandering past Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and I spotted something truly horrific in the corner of one of the hospital wings, worryingly near to the main entrance. Yes, it's the ...
What is evidence?
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, General | 1 Comment »I've heard lots of people claim that those who accept Darwin's theory of Evolution (or its modern descendants) are just following their own 'beliefs' or 'religion' because, as the argument goes, Scientists have no actual evidence for what they claim. ...
