Tag Archives: Science

Placement

June 19, 2007 – 9:15 am

From a talk by Richard Dawkins on man’s perception of the universe: It’s worth recalling Wittgenstein’s remark on the subject. “Tell me,” he asked a friend, “Why do people always say it was natural for man to assume that the Sun went round the Earth, rather than that the Earth was rotating?” His friend replied, [...]

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Whales

June 14, 2007 – 12:26 pm

Yet another reason not to be a whale. I’m watching a documentary about spaceflight, including the challenges of, um, intimate relations in space. Among problems such as nausea there’s the practical issue of tending to float apart. The ‘we haven’t officially endorsed any solution but it we did this would be it’ solution is some [...]

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Microbes

June 6, 2007 – 8:08 am

I was listening to a podcast about microbes this morning. For some reason the fact that we have more microbe cells in our bodies then human cells has become quite a popular fact at the moment; it’s understandable, as it’s pretty damned freaky. A related fact from the podcast was that the average pinch of [...]

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Creationist Science 101

April 20, 2007 – 10:47 am
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I’ll see your bacon number and raise you…

March 20, 2007 – 7:47 pm

..an Erdős–Bacon number. Paul Erdős was a mathematician who published some 1,500 papers with 509 different collaborators, in some way paralleling the prolific career of Kevin Bacon. As with the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game that gives actors a Bacon number according to the number of co-stars required to link them to Mr Bacon, [...]

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