I’ve wanted a telescope ever since I was a little kid. The last year I have been looking at them online and trying to get an idea of what I would like. Every time I’ve looked I’ve realize that I don’t know enough to make a decision on what would be right. Today I went …
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Stock Market, September 29th 2008
This is for future reference. I wonder if it will be exceeded in the coming days and weeks. Single biggest point decline in the history of the TSX and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Image taken from the Canadian Google finance page.
How To Think About Science
I have been listening to a podcast from CBC Radio called Ideas. They did a series of interviews with scientists and philosophers called “How To Think About Science”. It’s a fantastic program that I recommend everyone listen to. The episode with James Lovelock is rather sobering and if you don’t have time to listen to …
Who Owns Ideas?
The CBC Radio program Ideas did an episode on copyright. It is probably the best overview of copyright issues I have heard, read or seen. They try to be unbiased in their examination of copyright. They give a lot of air time to people on both sides and the only biased comments I heard was …
LHC Awesome Day
From xkcd _____________________________________________________________ And this link says it all http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/