Archive for the ‘Webcomics’ Category
Fusion Power, Climate Change and Pascal’s Wager
Posted at 9:42 pm | Filed Under BBC, Religion, Skepticism, Uncategorized, Viewpoint, WeatherAction, Webcomics, climate science, environmentalism
This post may seem a little schizophrenic, but bear with me.
The BBC website, also known as the media arm of Environmental Panic Inc., produced a fascinating article on the struggle to fund the next experimental setup to produce fusion power.
An international plan to build a nuclear fusion reactor is being threatened by rising costs, delays [...]
Zombie Science
Posted at 10:43 pm | Filed Under Science, Webcomics
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No, this isn’t the “science of zombies”.
The following is taken from a wonderful essay [PDF] by Bruce Charlton on the real problems of publically funded science, and how scientific consensuses can kill real progress in any number of scientific disciplines.
The summary kicks off with this:
Although the classical ideal is that scientific theories are [...]
XKCD: Guilty as charged
Posted at 2:02 am | Filed Under Webcomics
This has happened to me.
Damn you, XKCD!
The Drake Equation
Posted at 1:12 am | Filed Under Science, Skepticism, Webcomics
The Drake Equation, according to the world’s worst encyclopedia is
… a famous result in the speculative fields of exobiology and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
This equation was devised by Dr. Frank Drake (now Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz) in 1960, in an attempt to estimate the [...]
Time Friends on Global Warming
Posted at 5:46 pm | Filed Under Viewpoint, Webcomics
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