Every time I hear climate-change skeptics or global-warming deniers speak, I think of this cartoon that I saw online… Continue reading
Entries Tagged as 'Science'
Global-Warming Deniers
February 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Humor, Politics, Science
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A quick rundown
February 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Religion, Science, Sex, The Middle East, Uncategorized
I said it once; I’ll say it again: clearly, religion is not the real cause of Islamic terrorism. Debate me all you want, but I will insist and never be convinced that religion is nothing more than a cloak donned by hypocrites, liars, and the criminally insane. Hopefully, good news to come in Uganda, as […]
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Fun with Statistics
February 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, Dating, Economics, Finance, Humor, Science
If there is one thing that I learned in my finance classes in my M.B.A. studies, it is that past performance does not guarantee future results. To quote an oft-repeated mantra, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Remember this fact any time you see statistics reported by anyone… Continue reading
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Faked Moon-Landing
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Entertainment, Marketing, Media, Politics, Russia, Science, War
Here is the most-bizarre post you’ll read today: Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” is evidence that the moon-landing in 1969 was faked Continue reading
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Opportunity Costs
December 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Culture, Education, Politics, Science
A high school in San Francisco might put science on the chopping-block: Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students. The proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was approved recently by […]
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Book Review: “The Kuzari,” An Introduction
December 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Bible, Book Reviews, Books, Boston, Christianity, Education, Europe, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Massachusetts, Palestine, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science, Talmud, The Middle East, Torah
First in a series A Preface BOSTON — When I was Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Spare Change News, a non-profit newspaper that covered social-justice issues including poverty and homelessness while providing jobs selling the publication to homeless people, I attended a local, Passover seder in Cambridge for homeless people. Local Jews had hosted such an […]
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Being an Early-Riser
December 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Boston, Business, Education, Entertainment, Health, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Marketing, Massachusetts, Personal, Religion, Science, Sports
JERUSALEM — Ever since I can remember, I have always wanted to stay up late and sleep in late. It was not out of a desire to slack-off and party (even in high school) — it was merely because I always had so much to do. I would stay up late working on homework for […]
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Global Warming
December 17th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Business, Conservative Pundits, Economics, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Politics, Science, Technology
Stewart Brand classifies the viewpoints on climate change into four groups: denialists, skeptics, warners, and calamatists. I fall somewhere between the second and third: SKEPTICS This group is most interested in the limitations of climate science so far: they like to examine in detail the contradictions and shortcomings in climate data and models, and they […]
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