Author Mark Helprin, quoted in the Washington Post: “The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don’t have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.’” …
This is intriguing: a new nasal vaccine that clears neuron-destroying beta amyloid plaques from the brains of affected mice will be tested in humans in 2006. Keep your fingers crossed…
A new study reveals that a majority of scientists believe in God. That holds true across all disciplines, although scientists in the social sciences are more likely to believe in God than those in the natural sciences. For example, around 41 percent of biologists don’t believe in God, but only 27 percent of political scientists …
This is cool. Regender.com takes any Web site you want to run through it and changes the sexes around–replacing names it recognizes as masculine with feminine ones, and vice versa, changing pronouns, etc. Does it make a difference? Depends on the site. It sure makes you think, though! My own site, once regendered, identifies me …
People shown erotic or gory images have trouble processing what they see immediately afterwards, according to a new study.
From About Last Night, the blog of Terry Teachout, drama critic for the Wall Street Journal (among other things): More and more I question the ultimate value of any criticism whose immediate purpose is not to bring its readers into direct contact with beauty (or shorten the amount of time they spend in contact with …
…for a cool $100 million.
No, seriously.
NASA has developed a device that keeps track of biological data for people, much like the flight recorder in an airplane keeps track of flight information. The comfortably wearable device can monitor changes in heart rate, the amount of oxygen in the blood stream and more. It’s intended for astronauts, but the medical possibilities here …
The Gladiator Robot, a three-ton unmanned remote-controlled vehicle that can fire machine guns, nonlethal sting balls or tear gas, has been rolled out. The U.S. Marines will begin testing six prototypes in 2007 and could deploy around 200 of them in 2009 if they work as intended. And at just $300,000 to $400,000 each, they’re …
This makes me sad. Disney has closed its last studio turning out hand-drawn animation; it’s all going to be computer-generated from now on.
Wascana Lake in Regina, just a couple of blocks from my house, is the venue for canoeing, kayaking and rowing events at the Canada Summer Games, now underway. Which, naturally, got me thinking…about science. The first scientific principle involved in boating of any sort is the one named after Archimedes, the Greek philosopher who formulated …
