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As we walked out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, I explained to GameBoy why the annual Open House was a necessary thing.

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Sacrificed a day of studying and took GameBoy up to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Annual Open House. It’s a huge event. In fact, it’s a lot like Disneyland–distant parking lots, gaggles of families with young kids, and long lines. Only instead of rides, there’s science. And science beats out everything that […]

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I used to watch Star Trek (TNG, DS9, & Voyager) and then go to bed and dream of living it. I didn’t even have to be the captain (although as I got older, I was): even just a kid on board (like Westley, my hero when I was in grade school) would have been beyond […]

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Click on the link about to see the full diagram comparing scientific and faith-based approaches to knowledge. It’s a bit simplistic, but I’m curious how you all respond to it.
[Update: 2007.02.20 09:50 AM]
I was careless in my linkage: the image now links to its proper html context, per artist Wellington Grey’s request.¬† He has […]

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I’m a big fan of PZ Myers. He’s godless, he’s liberal and he loves cephalapods. His site, Pharyngula, is one of the most widely read science (and liberal politics) blogs. You could say that I read it religiously.
But I cringe at his rough handling of religious believers. While I am unabashed in […]

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Most people at work know that I want to get a PhD in religious studies (only one year left to my master’s degree!). But I was a little taken aback when my office mate said,
“John, I’m waiting for you to get that PhD so that you can come back and give me all the […]

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The three major monotheistic religions all have holy books that date to a minimum of 1400 years ago. This makes the relevance of these supposed Divine rules somewhat suspect.
A Jewish cartoon that I enjoy reading has an interesting take on Jewish bioethics, including links under the cartoon to discussions of same. Among some of […]

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The Turing Test, as we are all aware, I’m sure, is a test to see if a computer can convince a human that it is human. Now, since I name my computers (and car), I may not be the best judge of such a test. The results of Turing Tes seem to me to be […]

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I got emotional when I saw this picture (and read the revelation in this press release):

Goodbye, Mars Global Surveyor, you served us well.
Does anyone else get weepy over science, or am I just crazy that way?

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There is beauty enough in this universe. The distant Cassini probe has opened a tiny window on the glory within our own solar system. Click on them to see higher resolution versions at the NASA site. The first image taken from Saturn’s shadow. You can spot the earth as a tiny […]

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