- Is Rick Perry a 21st-century Galileo? – No.
- Jobs Will Follow a Strengthening of the Middle Class – …or why "trickle down" economics — where the rich get tax cuts and everyone else magically benefits — doesn't work.
Tag Archives: science
My delicious.com bookmarks for July 5th through July 6th
- Turnabout is fair play – "This is so wonderfully, evilly devious. Superficially, it seems to support creationist methods—but what it actually is is a grand reductio ad absurdam."
- Google’s Business Model – Who is the customer and what is the product? (via @daringfireball)
- Björk: ‘Manchester is the prototype’ – "Biophilia is the Icelandic singer's new project – the word means 'love of living things' – and promises to push the envelope so far you'll need the Hubble telescope to see it."
My delicious.com bookmarks for March 13th through March 14th
- Fukushima is a triumph for nuke power: Build more reactors now! – Despite multiple failures there has been no significant release of radiation.
- Japan Earthquake: before and after – Amazing and shocking.
- Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors – I did think that the coverage suggesting a nuclear disaster was unlikely. This explains why my intuition was (probably) right.
My delicious.com bookmarks for February 26th through March 7th
- Sinclair ZX81: 30 years old tomorrow – "Tomorrow, 5 March 2011, marks the 30th anniversary of the arrival of the machine that did more to awaken ordinary Britons to the possibilities offered by home computing: the Sinclair ZX81." Given my domain name, I had to link to this.
- Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Autism Groups “Kill Children” — And He’s Right – "And it is dangerously idiotic when the bad choice in question kills children."
My delicious.com bookmarks for February 23rd through February 24th
- Christchurch earthquake – Shocking stuff, made all the more real by the great images.
- Why Last Week’s Solar Storm Was a Dud – "If the plasma’s magnetic field is parallel to the Earth’s, the incoming charged particles are effectively blocked from entering Earth’s magnetosphere. An identical flare with a perpendicular magnetic field would have triggered a much stronger storm."
My delicious.com bookmarks for December 1st through December 3rd
- It’s not an arsenic-based life form – Apparently ET is not visiting any time soon but it's still pretty cool.
- Julian Assange, defending our democracies (despite their owners’ wishes) – Nice piece about WikiLeaks and why, despite what some politicians will tell you, it's a good thing.