Scientists Use Random Design Principles
. . . or so it appears to me, to design a more efficient plant–for their purposes. Check out this MSNBC article to see how it was done.
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ByhenryAn excellent cartoon at Language Log. If you’re into language and you don’t read Language Log, you’re missing something.
More on Campaign Finance
ByhenryWhile deploring the hypocrisy of Obama’s switch on the issue (though still preferring him to McCain), I will be very happy if his action is the death-knell of public campaign financing as suggested in this NYT article (via MSNBC).
Poor Offended People Want to Murder Someone
ByhenryI agree with this note which calls this column, titled Prejudiced Danes Provoke Fanaticism, execrable. Freedom of thought requires the freedom to offend, and being offended does not justify violence.
Another View on Christians, Creation, and Evolution
Byhenry. . . from Lingamish. Speaking of creationists who aren’t stupid. 🙂
Media Heat or Light?
ByhenryI’ve long thought that the major problem of the media was not so much bias (though bias is evidence) but shallowness. Today Allan Bevere said it much better.