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April 26, 2007 | Science & Technology

Ode to Gliese 581 c

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The astronomical tabloid press have been abuzz about the discovery of a (potentially habitable) earth-like planet, romantically named Gliese 581…

April 10, 2007 | General Geek Culture, Point Of View, Science & Technology

Why I Reject Tim O’Reilly’s Blogger’s Code of Conduct

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I think Tim O’Reilly is a really great guy. He gets the Internet, he groks technology, he’s part of the…

March 27, 2007 | General Geek Culture, Science & Technology

Smarter Than Pong

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In the future, only smart people will play games. Or will gamers simply be the smartest people around? Ryuta Kawashima…

March 20, 2007 | Fun & Humour, Science & Technology

From Uranus To EURion

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New adventures in digital insurrection: an interesting Wikipedia entry is doing the rounds of the usual blogs, explaining how one…

March 12, 2007 | Science & Technology

10 Things You Did Not Know About Wikipedia

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Or, as it turns out, 10 things I did know about Wikipedia, but there’s no harm in reminding ourselves what…

February 23, 2007 | General Geek Culture, Science & Technology

Bicker Bicker Bicker

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When mommy and daddy fight, I get sad.

February 15, 2007 | Science & Technology

Quack Cull

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Every now and then a journalist, scientist or blogger takes down a quack with such bone crunching enthusiasm that it…

February 10, 2007 | Science & Technology

Davina McCall, Anti-Science?

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I’ve always had a soft spot for UK television presenter Davina McCall, not only because she was funny and sexy,…

January 31, 2007 | Politics, Religion & Philosophy, Science & Technology

An Even More Inconvenient Truth

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When I can’t decide whether to laugh or cry, I can only mock. Pillar of society and father of seven…

January 29, 2007 | Science & Technology

Adobe & the Gift of Knowledge

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In what might turn out to be a very shrewd business move, Adobe have announced that they will be releasing…

January 23, 2007 | Science & Technology

BBC Study on Climate Change

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The BBC (in conjunction with Oxford University) used distributed computing to predict future climate change, with some startling results. In…

December 4, 2006 | Religion & Philosophy, Science & Technology

Dawkins on Life, Love and God

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Every time I think Richard Dawkins can’t make me feel even more warm and fuzzy inside, he surprises me. From…

November 28, 2006 | Science & Technology

Wikipedia Credibility Surprise

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How credible is Wikipedia as source of information? Fairly credible, according to a study performed by Thomas Chesney, published in…

November 27, 2006 | Religion & Philosophy, Science & Technology

Fundies say the darndest things!

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As most thinking people know, the pronouncements of the fundamentalist religious right can be scary in the extreme. Just when…

September 18, 2006 | Belgium, General Geek Culture, Point Of View, Science & Technology

Belgian Court Hankers For Stone Age

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A Belgian court has decided that Google News is a news portal rather than a search engine (and we know…