Just finished Super Freakonomics. Great stuff, and well worth the read. I won’t spoil it for you, get your own copy They have a very interesting second to last section on anthropological climate change, and some interesting ideas on ways to combat it (as opposed to the “let’s just revert to medieval times” ala Kyoto). [...]
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Got asked this one this morning – a classic philosophical question which one can argue over endlessly. What interests me most about this question is the effect quantum mechanics has on the question. If we apply quantum mechanics, the question changes and becomes: If a tree falls in the forest, and there’s no-one there to [...]
OK, after talking about Horizon’s program on infinity, here’s a simple (sort of) explanation of how the universe is finite and unbounded. By finite and unbounded, I’m saying the universe is a fixed (unknown) size, and yet there is no “edge”. No boundary. You can go as far as you like, and just keep going [...]
Saw this one today, and I’m struggling with some of it. For instance, the conclusion that there is proof of infinity simply because we can count sequentially, and not see an end to it. That’s rubbish surely – just because you can’t see the end of something does not mean it doesn’t have an end. [...]
Right now I’m reading Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg (recommended to me by my uncle) and before I’ve even finished it I have to recommend this as a book everybody who has even a slight concern over the future welfare of humanity should read. The book is totally engaging, and totally strips away the propaganda [...]
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Fed up of hearing about having to pay 5p for a plastic bag? Worried plastic bags will be banned and you’ll actually have to bring a bag to Tesco’s? Unlike Global Warming, the plastic bag problem has always been an environmental issue I actually believed was happening. Well now it’s solved, and seemingly completely and [...]
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The Register ran an interesting story today. Basically (surprise surprise) there seems to some confusion as to whether or not the planet is actually getting any warmer, much to the chagrin of the anti carbon crowd who are being made to look less and less credible on a near hourly basis. The problem seems to [...]
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This week I was horrified to discover that man made global warming is now part of the national curriculum here in the UK and my children are being spoon fed this nonsense as part of their education. How on Earth an unproven media scare can be classified as science amazes me. Here are a few [...]
