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A Devil’s Chaplain
From the last paragraph of an article by Richard Dawkins…
Safety and happiness would mean being satisfied with easy answers and cheap comforts, living a comfortable lie. The alternative is risky. You stand to lose comforting delusions: you can no longer suck at the pacifier of faith in immortality. To set against that risk, you stand [...]
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A quantum leap
Just a quick one. People seem to think that a quantum leap is a sudden and large stride forward in a certain field of understanding. Yet an actual quantum leap is a completely different beast; according to John Gribbin in Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science a quantum has two distinct features.
When an electron in a high energy [...]
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More?
Yes, there’s more to come but I’ve been inundated with interstate work, children’s birthdays, visitors and a social life. The first article in my Scorecard series is being worked on intermittently, when I can find some time away from all the above, and I reckon the completion time will be around mid-September.
EDIT: I’m putting the whole scorecard idea on [...]
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Some things for today
Man’s destruction of Africa – oh dear
All technology can be used for good…or evil
Open source cancer research! - er, wow. That’s unexpected. Very welcome, but unexpected.
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Coming up next…
Now i’ve put across those two basic ideas I’ll be getting into some of the interesting stuff I’ve read and heard about, posting stories from the world of science, commenting on life, theorising on interesting historical happenings and generally making bold statements that I hope are at least moderately well informed.
What I can promise is that the content [...]
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Life, science, reality
Hello, my name is Shane and I want to write. I want to write about the basics of everything that so many people seem to get wrong, misunderstand or purposely ignore.
A lot of these basics are absolute truths - painstakingly researched over years, decades, centuries and in some cases millenia(sp?) – yet for some people they [...]
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