So in this series of posts I have not yet addressed the word in my title … ‘Computation’.
To cut a long story short, it seems to me that what Quantum Mechanics does is what any computer programmer would do when faced with an enormous amount of information that he could not possibly compute in a [...]
You may have seen in the media that skepchick.org has a campaign to give people boosters to their Pertussis (Whooping Cough) vaccination immunity. At the recent DragonCon free injections were being given out.
Over the past year or two I’ve been doing a lot of research into vaccines and the anti-vax movement. One thing I did [...]
Funny conversation at the golf course last night…
Man at front of queue gestures at bracelets on sale at the counter. The packaging says “Embedded Holographic Technology” and “May improve your strength and swing” etc.
Man at front of queue: Do those really work then?
Boy behind counter: Yeah, I wear one all the time.
Me: Yeah, wearing a [...]
In all the recent news about abuse in the Catholic church that has been some speculation that even if direct blame could be placed at the feet of the Pope then he would not be arrested or tried for it. As a head of state he would have diplomatic immunity. The only heads of state [...]
I’m a bit late to the party on this but I thought the vitriol and fury being vented about the new scanners at UK airports was a bit on an over-reaction – or at least the reaction was for all the wrong reasons.
The first story I read that made me think to write about them [...]
There is a great deal of media exposure these days about Organic food and Organic farming and it is ALWAYS asociated with several presumptions:
1. That Organic Farming is better for the environment.
2. That Organic Food tastes better.
From my own previous discoveries I have several pre-formed opinions:
A. Organic Farming’s output is sufficiently lower than non-Organic farming [...]
Did you see the story about the pope being knocked down last night?
Imagine that… A mentally unstable person managed to get close enough to afront an 82 year old man in the richest most well guarded city in the world!? Begs so many questions!
Like doesn’t it seem convenient that the person who assaulted Silvio Berlusconi [...]
While browsing for news on Christmas day I found this little ensemble of stories on religious expression over at the BBC.
Of course I’m against all religion on principle but I found it quite upsetting that a government can ban one religion’s activities (publishing bibles with the word Allah in them) because it might upset another [...]
Are you for or against the Lisbon Treaty’s content? Do you approve of the way in which the Treaty has been put into place?
Two quite different questions if you think about it. Most people I think would answer No to both when in fact they mean No to the latter but don’t actually know anything [...]
Jumile recently blogged about Pascal’s Wager, here and here, and I read the comments on his thread with some interest. It seems the phrasing of the wager caused some confusion. Distinguishing between ‘a god’ and ‘God’ seems to be at the root of it.
I thought I might rewrite the Wager using ‘a deity’ and ‘The [...]