Bill Foster is a physicist who won a special election to the U.S. House of Representatives. Politics are so strange I guess it’s not surprising that few scientists want to run for Congress. I suppose there is no reason to assume someone trained in math and logic would be a better Congressman than one who is not. On the other hand, it would be reassuring if people voting on important issues demonstrated some ability to think logically. Also, many issues are extremely technical in nature and having some skills in those areas can only help.
Strangely enough, adding red light cameras to intersections actually increases the number of crashes .
It’s finally warming up around here. It’s not clear where these pictures of snow were taken, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
Here is a cute story about a dolphin guiding two confused whales to safety .
It’s way out of my price range, but you can have dinner while being suspended 150 feet in the air by ...
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Sea Oh TooFrom: johnnyphoton.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 11:21:47
My friend Dan posted this link to the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in a comment recently.
Here is a quote;
Only 27 percent believed “the current state of scientific knowledge is able to provide reasonable predictions of climate variability on time scales of 100 years.”
No one disputes atmospheric carbon dioxide, (CO2), levels are rising. Nobody disputes we are dumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. So what is the point? Let’s change the atmosphere...
more I’m C-C-Cold!From: johnnyphoton.com
Post Date: 2008-03-08 12:02:15
It’s been a busy week, but I wanted to make a quick post.
I’ve spent a lot of the week wrapped in a blanket trying to stay warm. No, I haven’t had heater problems, I’m just cold. That’s one of the reasons I was really impressed by this video on 20/20 about a guy who climbed Mount Everest in shorts. He is called the iceman and he is highly resistant to cold, the total opposite of me. Here is an article too. Most of the show was about medical problems. I did no...
more The ‘Yuk’ FactorFrom: johnnyphoton.com
Post Date: 2008-03-11 13:24:01
I’m not really sure what year it was, sometime in the late sixties. I was fishing on a lake in Canada with my family. The sun sparkled on the clear water. It was a beautiful day. Our native guide reached into his bag and pulled out a cup. He dipped the cup into the lake, raised it to his lips, and began to drink. To me, he might as well have pulled a rabbit out of a hat, or a quarter from my nose. I was amazed. “You can drink the water?” I said. He just nodded.
I grew up in...
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