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 […]
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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 […]
*Sigh*. I decided to see if the “NCSE”:http://www.ncseweb.org had any info on the statements made by Bush on teaching the hypothesis of “intelliget design” in the science classroom. Oh, they had plenty. First and foremost, a link to the “most recent issue of Time dealing centrally with the ongoing debate […]
One of my favorite radio programs, “To the Best of Our Knowledge”:http://wpr.org/book/, had a neat program on the “gourmet, the history, and the health of caffeine (and its primary mode of injection into the human bloodstream, coffee!)”:http://wpr.org/book/041212b.html.
Wowsers. “Harvard is making a funded effort to gather more data about the origin of life in the Universe.”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/14/AR2005081401070.html I’m not a big fan about how this Washington Post article begins, however: “Harvard University is joining the long-running debate over the theory of evolution by launching a research project to […]
As reported this week by University of Maryland physicist Robert Park in his “What’s New”:http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu, ABS News appears to have lost it’s rocker: 2. CREATIONISM: ABC NEWS AND GETTING THE DINOSAURS ON NOAH’S ARK. Earlier this year, WN asked a rhetorical question, “Is ABC News nuts?” http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN05/wn021105.html. There is new […]
The marathon training continues – for Jodi, of course. I’m just along for the ride. Today, Jodi had her 16 mile run. I biked along with her again, refilling water when necessary. The first thing that happened on her run today was that her water bottle, apparently ripe with soap […]
May of you are likely frequent visitors to “solidgoldrold.com”:http://solidgoldrold.com, a website for sexy people meant to enliven and enrich the lives of those who are not sexy. I thought it might be useful to provide a “between the lines” guide (AKA “idiot’s guide”) for the introduction on the webpage. greetings […]
I’ve had the pleasure and the pain of being a BaBar reviewer for the past year on an analysis of the rare process b->sγ. This analysis has been in preparation for years, and believe it or not the analysts (and the review committee) worked on this thing pretty much continuously […]
Jodi’s marathon training continues. She cranked it up to 15 miles today. We got up later than we wanted – closer to 06:30 – but made it to the Sawyer Trail by 7. Jodi’s been doing roughly 10-minute miles, though she shaved a total of 3 minutes off her entire […]
Jodi and I hit Borders Bookstore and Cafe last night. It’s one of those regular consumer things we do: go to a bookstore, browse, buy things we shouldn’t buy, and drink some caffeinated beverages and talk. We were scanning the new arrivals last night, when I noticed that Senator Rick […]
What a week. Busy, busy, busy! Let’s start at the beginning. BaBar is engrossed in its fifth run, which we aptly denote “Run 5”. A lot of things changed in the accelerator and detector when we shutdown for the 2004 upgrade last fall. It’s critical, given such changes, to validate […]