Archive for the ‘science’ Category
Monday, January 5th, 2004
LanguageHat recently had a post on what language the deaf think in - it's superficially an interesting question (more deeply so if you beleive that people actually (as opposed to merely apparently) think in their natural language), and the comments provide some nifty resources for further reading.
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Sunday, January 4th, 2004
I just ran across this while searching for the latest on the Beagle 2 (having been prompted to do so by the recent successful landing of the Spirit) - beagle 2 : weblog. 2003 really was the year of the blogs, I guess.
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Friday, October 3rd, 2003
|| Ectogenesis - Panacea or Ethical Nightmare? [from Kuro5hin] raises some very interesting issues about the feasibility and possible effects of artificial wombs - lots of interesting science and potentially thorny legal (and possibly even moral) questions. I've never considered the subject before, but it might be worth ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2003
I try to stay out of political discussions most of the time, but every once in a while something comes up that really gets my goat. Politics & Science is an impressive website devoted to exploring exactly how the Bush regime has gone about misusing and abusing science in ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2003
Boxes and Arrows: The Sociobiology of Information Architecture presents an interesting view - that organisms have evolved to solve the problem of information overload. I imagine there's a lot here, but I only got a third of the way through the article before I felt the overriding urge to ...
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