Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 4
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in General, Internet | No Comments »In this final part of my 'look ahead to 2009' series, I'm looking at technology. What were the trends that dominated 2008, and what can we expect in the year ahead? There have been several large trends that have been extremely ...
Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 3
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Conspiracy Theories, General, General Science | No Comments »Environmental issues came to the front of everyone's mind in 2008 - right up until the credit crunch began to bite. And it may well turn out that the credit crunch was just the catalyst required to get people really ...
Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 2
Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »So this is the second in my 4-part series looking at what 2009 has in store. Today I'm focusing on physics and astronomy. 2008 was, of course, the year that the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, near Geneva, was suposed to ...
Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 1
Sunday, December 28th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Education | 3 Comments »I'm going to do a post every day for the next four days looking forward to the positive and negative aspects that we can expect to see in 2009, looking from four different viewpoints. Firstly, today, I'm looking at the good ...
Merry Christmas!
Thursday, December 25th, 2008 Posted in General, General Science | 1 Comment »A very merry Christmas to all my readers. It's important that we remember, on this day, a baby born a very long time ago, in the early hours of the morning of 25th December, to an unmarried mother and absent father, ...
Pope Is Moron
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 Posted in Religion | 2 Comments »Pope Benedict XVI has publically stated that homosexuality is a plague that must be eliminated, and that this struggle is just as important as fighting against global warming and other environmental issues, underlining how completely out of touch the old man is with ...
Obama breaks mould, selects intelligent cabinet
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Politics | No Comments »Obama has named Steven Chu as his new energy secretary. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7784802.stm Chu, a Nobel Prize winner for his work on lasers in particle physics, is an expert on energy research. His appointment really highlights the difference between the 8 years of glorified ignorance of ...
Yay! Evolving art!
Saturday, December 13th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Natural Computation | No Comments »http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/ This was all over the internet a few days ago: A programmer who wrote a small application to evolve works of art using transparent polygons. Of course, just to see if I could, I had to duplicate it myself, though ...
Questioning science
Monday, December 8th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Education, Politics | No Comments »I think I finally understand one of the major objections that Creationists without scientific training (if that's not a tautology) put forward when arguing against Evolution and other associated theories. I realised something today when I was listening to the ...
Gratitude
Thursday, December 4th, 2008 Posted in Biology, Health, Paranormal | No Comments »I'm stuck at home today feeling like death, with a splitting headache, fever, cough and sore throat. Fortunately, I went to see the doctor yesterday before it got too bad, so I'm all stocked up with medicines. At least it ...
