In honour of Ben Stein’s Canadian release of “Expelled – No Intelligence Allowed”
http://www.expelledthemovie.com/playground.php
I have produced a nice javascript demo of one of the basic concepts of evolution: natural (cumulative) selection.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Ben Stein is a very intelligent person. Having said that I think when it came to taking attendance in biology [...]
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I found a very useful tool for creating nicely formatted equations. I find MS-Word’s equation editor a little lacking when it comes to some math functions. I came across this site:
http://rogercortesi.com/eqn/index.php
which will allow you to enter a LaTeX equation and it will return the properly formatted equivalent in several convenient formats.
For example if [...]
In 1979 Jimmy Carter delivered a televised speech bemoaning the increasing US dependence on foreign oil. In it he outlines his Energy Policy for the coming decades.
“[Foreign Oil is] a cause of the increased inflation and unemployment that we now face. This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of [...]
Update: One of my readers kindly provided a link with some very detailed technical information: http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,4047.240.html
In my original post:
http://www.martincwiner.com/perpetual-motion-claim-if-its-a-hoax-its-a-good-one/
I examine a device proposed by Thane Heins. He calls the device “Perepiteia” which deceptively echos of ‘perpetual’ when in fact it’s from the Greek meaning “a sudden reversal of fortune”. A kind poster on the original [...]
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1632944820080416?rpc=64
Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory passed away at 90 years of age. His theory is colloquially known as “The Butterfly Effect” but is more properly referred to as: ‘deterministic chaos’. Basically put, it’s the idea that if you take simple building blocks and allow them to self complicate, you get behaviour that is [...]
