Category Archives: Science

ClimateGate

 
Aside from the larger issue of the complete disregard for the scientific method displayed by the players in this circus, has anyone read any of the posts that dissect the code of the various programs?
Sweet Jesus! It’s enough to make any of my computer science professors choke.
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The Biggest Day in Motorsports

Jenson Button continued his unlikey conquest of Formula One at Monaco today. Billed as a race with little passing (overtaking for the knowledgable), the thrill comes from watching the drivers push their cars through the narrow, tortourous turns of the city squeezed between the mountains and the sea. As we saw this morning, the merest [...] Read more »

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Of Man, Pigs, and Bacteria

 
Those brave few who find their way to this blog know that I have no truck with most of the columnists writing for the New York Times. But Nicholas Kristof, writing in today’s New York Times, reports on the rampant overuse of antibiotics in commercial pig-farming operations.
It is both terrifying and outrageous. To wit:

We don’t [...] Read more »

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At My Age…..

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Winter Home

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