I found that “Gallup poll that reports that 45% of Americans believe they were created in their present form by God 10,000 years ago”:http://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/current/creation/evol-poll.htm. I find a few of the other numbers in this study interesting. Given that a discussion of God and His role in the universe is one […]
Daily Archives: August 15, 2005
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According to the BBC, “scientists in the UK claim to have developed the first human nerve cells from human stem cells”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4155016.stm. They used embryonic cells, the most pliable of the known stem cell types. These are also the very ones which have mired the U.S. in controversy over Federal funding […]
Yahoo! recently claimed that they had more searchable content than Google. I’ve used Google for many, many years – I haven’t used Yahoo! for searches for the opposite reason I *do* use Google. It’s historically poor by comparison. Looks like “Yahoo’s claims have been challenged by an independent check”:http://vburton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/indexsize.html. Scientists […]
I found an “article in the BBC about weather balloon-based temperature readings from the 1970s”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4152576.stm rather amusing. As a scientist, I am daily faced with revelations about new understanding of the behavior of my experiment. This is no different; however, the data taken by these weather balloons is often used […]
Several weeks ago I mentioned that I had chanced on Sen. Rick Santorum’s (R-PA) new book, and that I had reacted with a bit of shock at his lack of understanding about science. More important, his lack of clarity on issues scientific was used as a critical piece in his […]