Technology blogger Robert Scoble attended the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland and made 22 video recordings of the conversations he had with various people while he was there, which he has uploaded to Qik.
4 Feb
- The Science entry posted on February 4th, 2008.
Rarely do I get a chance to utter this sentence: This internet video is smart.
I know, hard to believe. A video which aims to tackle the old “watchmaker” analogy argument common among Intelligent Design advocates which scientists usually describe as so erroneous that it is “not even wrong.”
Although not 100% perfect and will [...]
I used to love Ben Stein. That is, until I found out he was a raving lunatic creationist.
About a year ago I heard he was involved with a documentary on Intelligent Design and I didn’t give it much thought. Perhaps this was because I always found him to be fun, witty, and more [...]
A length of pipe is perforated along the top and sealed at both ends - one seal is attached to a small speaker or frequency generator, the other to a supply of a flammable gas (propane tank).
The pipe is filled with the gas, and the gas leaking from the perforations is lit. When the speaker [...]
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
– Charles Lamb
“Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
6 Oct
- The Science entry posted on October 6th, 2007.
From a Space.com article, a rather harrowing new theory about the death of the universe paints a picture of “phantom energy” ripping apart galaxies, stars, planets and eventually every speck of matter in a fantastical end to time.
Are you scared yet?