GroupThinkTank
Revolutionizing the world, one "I agree" at a time
Friday, January 27, 2006
X-Pub, 11:57 AM:
A Monkey on Ice Skates
It's a gallery of a monkey on ice skates. He is also wearing a cute monkey parka. It would have been better had they been using a non-pissed off looking monkey. But he seems pretty okay with the skating part.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
X-Pub, 1:39 PM:
Official Scientific Standards
Clearly this would never happen under the current administration, but I really think we need to have a federal scientific body to provide some type of consensus scientific opinion. Maybe require 90% approval of various ideas. I am just sick of climate change, evolution, STD prevention, various pandemics, etc. being framed as "debates" when there is strong consensus among the people who actually study these issues on the basics.
Anyhoo, this body would provide some sort of seal of approval on science and health books or programs. States would not have to comply, but hopefully many would only accept credit for federally certified books, and publishers would feel pressure to actually conform to some real standard.
This wasn't a particularly good post. I think Mike's most recent post just put me over the line of "The Government and the Frustatingly Low Bar of Large-Scale Media Have Frustrated Me as a Scientist". Here's a link on science and the Bush administration.
Monday, January 16, 2006
Mike Russo, 12:29 PM:
Hilarity Ensues
I really shouldn't be doing anything besides working on my Note right now, but I stumbled across this article castigating scientists who think anthropogenic climate change is real:
The driving message of the eco-doomsters has been ‘green plants good, man bad’. This has become a received wisdom that simply cannot be questioned. It is taught in our schools as fact. It has spurred each of our political parties to turn a deeper shade of green than the others. Anyone foolhardy enough to challenge this orthodoxy is mercilessly mocked or vilified as stupid, insane or in the pay of the evil oil lobby.So, my vote is for "stupid," then.
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* The version of this article published in The Daily Mail said in error that water vapour formed most of the atmosphere.
Via Crooked Timber.
Saturday, January 07, 2006
David Bernat, 6:45 AM:
Sanity Check
That part of my brain that, when I read reporting by one news corporation (like MSNBC) badmouth a trivial action of another corporation (like Time Warner), suspects petty mudslinging is floating free in a vacuum of hard information. What I mean to say is, it's been another year, another chance for corporations to congeal into further indistinguishable masses. So, it seems, I've lost some of my intuition of corporate merger law. Wondered for a second if it was possible for Walmart to own a station competitor of MSNBC. Grumble, of course it is; Microsoft "owns" MSNBC, as does NBC, parented by GE.
I should have gone to sleep before 7am. Just saying, diminishing returns.
David Bernat, 6:39 AM:
See Also: Political Incorrectness
I'm ripping this from a Slashdot forum, but it's mildly amusing:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=kids+with+guns&sm=Yahoo!+Search&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t
Notice the "see also."
Of course, this is pretty non-incident though it is a little amusing that there are enough web sites out there of the sort or content to warrent "see also"s.
Meh. This is what I got.
By the way, anyone hear anything about the new gorillaz?
