Random Thoughts

Not With A Bang- Is New Science Media Instead Going Out With A Whimper?

David Crotty at the scholarly kitchen says that Science 2.0 is a failure.   Like many who use it off-the-cuff, I don't know how he is using the term- I usually do a global replace of 'Smurf' for Science 2.0 in these instances because Science ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 28 2011 - 1:48pm

Greg Critser, Science Journalism Jack Of All Trades, Tackles The Last Frontier

Science 2.0 Featured Author Greg Critser isn't satisfied being a respected journalist for the LA Times, the Times of London and the New York Times along with selling a lot of books, so he has branched out into the world of being a celebrity chef. Yes, ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 28 2011 - 11:43am

Some Quotes from "An inquiry Into the Permanent Cause of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations" (1814)

"Dutch capital was employed to purchase goods in one country and sell them in another: so that the Dutch became carriers for others, instead of manufacturing and carrying for themselves.  Thus circumstanced, Holland was gradually sinking, when politi ...

Blog Post - Ed Chen - Apr 28 2011 - 12:59pm

Atheist Funeral

What kind of funeral should one as a semi rational person insist on? My immediate reflexive answer is “don’t give a something, stuff me in the thrash chute if you must”. However, a burial or cremation is not about the deceased but about those left behind. ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Apr 28 2011 - 11:12pm

Comfort Zones: Ever Widening Them For Our Children, Whether They're Disabled Or Not

Have you ever noticed that you function better when you feel comfortable and confident in your surroundings and that when you are unsure of yourself, you are more likely to stumble? The same is true for our kids. In their element, where they are sure of al ...

Article - Kim Wombles - May 9 2011 - 10:51am

Oh, Health Ranger...You Make Me Ill

Mike Rangers has a post called "14 signs that the collapse of our modern world has already begun." If it weren't so scary to think of how easily people can be conned, it would almost be funny that he's so wide-ranging in his all-knowing ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Feb 23 2012 - 11:43pm

Too Much Information

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Blog Post - Payal Joshi - May 8 2011 - 9:37am

A Q&A With Author Priscilla Gilman

Some books you read and forget about before you've even put it down. Some you cast aside midway through. Every now and then, though, you find a rare gift of a book that continues to move you days, weeks (and those really wonderful ones: years) later. ...

Article - Kim Wombles - May 10 2011 - 10:53am

The New York Times War On Stay-At-Home Mothers

The 1950s were a golden age in America economically- a huge chunk of the middle class had a car and a house and a good life with only one parent working; a pipe dream in today's economy, but income taxes were only on the rich and government was not pr ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 10 2011 - 1:15pm

Could Facebook Erase Your Memory?

I have trouble keeping my appointments. I didn't use to, but one day my parents told me to buy an agenda. They thought they were doing me a favour. So I started writing down all my appointments in my agenda, which was great: I didn't have to reme ...

Blog Post - David Yerle - May 13 2011 - 10:18am