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Robert Zubrin's Credible Proposal to Save the ISS From Destruction.

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DEI Without Compromise: Embracing Diversity in the LISA Global Scientific Collaboration. A ESA NASA Project.

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Hontas Farmer

My research focuses on astrophysics from massive star formation to astroparticle physics. Born and raised in Chicagoland I have lived in Bellwood, IL since 1984 and attended public schools here... Read More »

Cosmology of the big bang. Speculative theories and possible future proof.

Nov 30 2009 | comment(s)

I had an idea that the theories of the earliest stages of the universe were speculative. I just never really knew how speculative until I really looked at them. The CMB is as far back as we have actual data. From that we have to divine everything.

Gender, Society and the Brain. How aggression and culture make us the gender we are.

Oct 31 2009 | comment(s)

Gender is socially mediated, and constructed, as well as neurologically predisposed. Innate qualities have to be qualities that do not depend on social interaction. Consider the so called feral children known to history. They are what people are like without social interaction or culture. These children display natural predispositions to certain behaviors, with no cultural overlay. Complex cultural behavior, dressing, eating with table manners, and much of what we call gender identity are unknown to them.

Balloon Boy: Richard Heene's "crackpot" "pseudo scientific" idea. EM's influence on cyclones. Updated.

Oct 22 2009 | comment(s)

You read right his "mad" idea is simply that electromagnetic fields effect the formation and evolution of cyclones. What they proposed and measured in the paper, "

The Ph.D. Octopus by William James

Oct 21 2009 | comment(s)

I am not the first to point out PhD snoobery. This is an account from 1903 which appeared in the Harvard Monthly.

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Ballon Boy HOAX: Finally some real information.. The weight of the balloon.

Oct 18 2009 | comment(s)

Finally thanks to the sheriff we have some actual scientific information on this whole story. The sheriff with the actual balloon on hand and in consultation with a professor took measurements. The balloon could not have held the boy due to an 18 lb discrepancy in it's measured weight and the weight reported by Richard Heene. The balloon was made of duct tape, tarps, plywood, and tinfoil. The sheriffs department put it back together and it supported the weight of the boy. He cited a Colorado state rule which keeps him from stating if polygraphs were administered or the results, or if confessions were obtained.

Richard Heene, Balloon Boy, and the Mad Scientist stereotype. Tabloidification of mainstream media.

Oct 17 2009 | comment(s)

According to ABC 7 Denver unnamed "friends" have dubbed Richard Heene a "Mad Scientist".Oh here we go again! Then this news station reports every bad word someone can say about him, with no independent verification. There are many many stories like this out there, all relying on the reporting of other news outlets often with no independent verification of anything. Most of the "news" out there on this topic is the same way. The meta message of all this that I am getting is "of course he's bad he's interested in science." Another case of the mad scientist stereotype at work.