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Apr 30

Global Warming: Place Your Bets

Posted by Matt Jones on Monday, April 30, 2007. Filed under Science.

Global warming proponent Brian Schmidt has been betting on global warming for a while now, the latest bet, worth $6000, has been taken by David Evans from Science Speak. Check out A climate skeptic’s guest post: Why David Evans bet against Brian Schmidt over global warming. David seems to have some pretty solid reasons. (Via [...]

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Apr 29

Space Saturday XXXI

Posted by Matt Jones on Sunday, April 29, 2007. Filed under Science.

Welcome to Space… Sunday? Ok, I meant to post this yesterday… Anyway, last week (April 24th) was the 17th Anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope and to celebrate HubbleSite has released a new image of The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme. Different sizes: 500×242 – 1000×484 – 2000×969 – 3000×1453 [...]

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Apr 27

“Best-selling Author Will ‘Prove’ God’s Existence”

Posted by Matt Jones on Friday, April 27, 2007. Filed under Religion,Theology.

Best-selling Author Will ‘Prove’ God’s Existence: ABC to Air LIVE Atheist Debate with Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort (via Hot Air). I think this could be dangerous and unnecessary for a few reasons. Firstly, God is not out to be proved. I think this requires a bit of qualification. I don’t think God can be [...]

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Apr 23

Mark Steyn: Let’s Be Realistic About Reality

Posted by Matt Jones on Monday, April 23, 2007. Filed under Social Commentary.

I seem to have a thing for Mark Steyn lately (can you blame me?). His most recent article, Let’s be realistic about reality had some more good stuff to say. (See my previous post Mark Steyn: A Culture of Passivity for some other good stuff.) I think we have a problem in our culture not [...]

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Apr 21

Space Saturday XXX

Posted by Matt Jones on Saturday, April 21, 2007. Filed under Science.

Thirty five years ago today, Apollo 16‘s Lunar Module (LM-11) Orion landed in the Descartes highland region on the Moon. To commemorate, here are two images from the surface of la Luna. 3000×3000 – 768×768 – 340×340 Credit: NASA (Source) 900×941 – 336×351Credit: NASA (Source) The top image was taken by Commander John Young of [...]

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Apr 18

Mark Steyn: A Culture of Passivity

Posted by Matt Jones on Wednesday, April 18, 2007. Filed under Around the World,Social Commentary.

Mark Steyn posted a column that is getting a lot of attention around the blogosphere: A Culture of Passivity – “Protecting” our “children” at Virginia Tech. It is worth reading and mulling over. There are two additional posts worth reading at Ace that both comment on Steyn’s article: Steyn’s Controversial Column On Cowardice And VaTech [...]

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