Monthly Archives: April 2008

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.” Emo Philips Send to Kindle

William Saletan in Slate writes: The regeneration of lost body parts has just moved from science fiction to U.S. military policy. Read the whole article, Rearming America: The Military’s Plan to Regrow Body Parts Send to Kindle

On Saturday, March 29 I was invited, together with my colleagues at Quartz Hill School of Theology, to be guests of Logos Bible Software at the Glendale Hilton. In exchange for listening to a six hour seminar on how to … Continue reading →

“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” Jeremy S. Anderson Send to Kindle

Lockheed recently tested a one fifth scale version of a reusable orbital space vehicle. You can watch a news report about it from KRQE in Albuquerque. Send to Kindle

If you look out into the long-term future and what you see looks like science fiction, it might be wrong. But if it doesn’t look like science fiction, it’s definitely wrong. Christine Peterson, Vice President of Foresight Nanotech Institute in … Continue reading →

Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so. Robert A. Heinlein Send to Kindle

By way of Jerry Pournelle’s website, a report in the Belfast Telegraph: An injection that dramatically relieved the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease within minutes would qualify as the discovery of the decade. That is exactly what was claimed yesterday for … Continue reading →

“Life’s tough. It’s tougher if you’re stupid.” John Wayne Send to Kindle

Frank O’Connor, the Irish writer, tells in one of his books how, as a boy, he and his friends would make their way across the countryside, and when they came to an orchard wall that seemed too high and too … Continue reading →