Month: August 2006
British to study 500,000
Ok, so I know this is kinda old news but I just hadn’t gotten around to blogging about it and I kept putting it off. Tonight we get discuss, ladies and gentlemen, the largest scientific study every undertaken or even thought up of. This is the study to end all studies, at least that is […]
It’s All In How You Present Information
Politics the lifeblood of any country whether it be communist, dictatorship, or even and perhaps most especially a democracy. Politics is a crazy system where voters are told information given no real basis behind the information then excepted to draw conclusions from the pre-packaged information that doesn’t fit with the underlying facts of the argument. […]
The Golden Era of Profitability
An article from today’s New York Times1 discussing the recent decline in real wages and the increase in worker productivity. First of all, what does real wages mean, real wages is not just the amount of money that you earn, but what that money can actually buy. To give a relevant example, let’s say for […]
A Journalist By Another Name
A question that has been running around both the blogosphere and around the mainstream media, is trying to decide if bloggers are “journalists”. Not just in the sense of can their news and information be trusted but also whether or not they should be given the same rights as a regular journalist. I do not […]
Happy Women’s Equality Day
I won’t write a long post, but I just thought I would mention that tomorrow August 26, is Women’s Equality Day. This is the day that in 1920, 86 years ago, women gained the right to vote after 72 years of the same bill, with the exact same wording being introduced what we now recognize […]
When I Write, Does That Tell You What Sex I Am?
Tonight I want to discuss something that I noticed that I did today without even realizing it. I was reading an article today and I assumed that the author of this article was female, without even looking at the author’s name or anything. Once I realized I did this, the first thought was why it […]
Beef Jerky Reports
This series of post is drawing to a close, this will be the final post. This third post, in the series discussing the recent decision by the International Astronautical Union to rewrite the definition of what is and isn’t a planet. In how this decision is not going to be understood nor will it be […]
How to be a better chess player
This is the second post in a multiple post series. Yesterday, I discussed how the news media is missing an important part of the discussion with the International Astronautical Union or the IAU, on the new system of naming what is and is not a planet. My general idea was that there is a vast […]
Pluto – What is it, and what about the other stuff in the solar system?
This is going to multiple part post, the first section is going to discuss something that I feel the news media is missing from the Pluto story. Pluto is it a planet or not? Have school kids been debating this idea? Nope, it has been scientists and engineers who have been spending time and energy […]