This article by David Brin (a physicist and a science fiction novelist and, apparently, an essayist) http://www.kithrup.com/brin/disputationarticle1.html has...
This is somewhat off topic, but I thought folks on this list might enjoy it -- the site http://spacealien.org/ is Brian Schinazi's travel journal. He used to...
Happy 2002, folks. Remember, this is last palindromic year we're going to get for 110 years--so make the most of it! I just finished Ridley's _Genome_. It was...
... That guy wants to get rid of cats! From Chapter 1: "It is not, needless to say, the fault of cats that they are prone to torturing mice; but then, given...
... Personally, I'm waiting for the year 2332. That's the year when all the really interesting stuff will happen. ... Nearly every day I'm hit with the...
Robert Wright--the spiritual patriarch of this discussion group ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cap-Q/ )--has an interesting piece in today's Times: ...
... On the upside, we've now wired virtually everything that's ever been learnt into one sprawling, distributed archive. Welcome to the shared human brain:...
Below is a URL, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/01/020121091000.htm which mentions brain research on perception and the physical storage there of....
... It depends on the subject and how specialized the information you need. Some of the really big news and research outlets are free. Most require a...
... Funny that I was thinking the exact same thing a few days ago. I've been playing with video lately, improting it into the computer where I manipulate it...
For those of you with television (go to your local sports bar, Michael, and tune this in on the big screen), PBS has some interesting fare tonight: The Secret...
This article, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/22/science/social/22CHEA.html reinforces much of what we've already discussed and as such isn't terribly...
... Damn; makes our merry band of pranksters look uninspired, unambitious --and ill-informed. But, I know what I'll be reading for the next few days; and...
Time for another edition of that relatively infrequent, but still quite regular, phenomenon--the Scott/Fuchs LoveFest! ... <snip> That's a good point. A lot of...
Thanks for the tip, Michael -- I had jumped around from question to question and had missed that one. You know that a question is a Question when it...
On the www.edge.com website under those questions that have come under discussion was this question "Why is it only amongst adults in the Western world that...
And now, that *vanishingly* rare (but not unheard of) animal: the Ryan/Fuchs Point of Disagreement. 8^) Before I begin slinging exception, I want to thank...
Hey all, ... It scared Ivan too, in the end. His was a pose -- like that of all pure thinkers. When Smerdyakov took him up on his coffee table philosophy and...
... Disagree away! Although I think that even this is more of an agreement than disagreement -- it is just a question of where we are going to split hairs....
... Well done! I concede the field! 8^) But a few comments . . . ... Ladies and gentlemen, keep your small children away from this man. 8^) ... "Father...
Here's another recommendation (found through http://memepool.com): http://www.thetruthforyouth.com/images/comics/evolution/page1.html about the evils of...
... I had always assumed that's the way the universe worked. But then, I went to Catholic school from K-12 and I had nuns as teachers who were not unlike the...
... Nietzsche had a lot of problems. As well as being a social misfit he had syphyllus. That doesn't breed a well-connected sort although it does allow one to...
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