This essay by s. e. smith is something I honestly wish I could have written myself (but see Comment 1 below), because it’s a point that is rarely raised in fighting against misogynist sentiment and the gender roles that enable it. That point is, eliminating those gender stereotypes does not entail actually eliminating the stereotyped …
Monthly Archive: April 2012
Apr 30 2012
Blimp-lofted wind turbines: huge return on investment
This awesome-looking prototype of blimp-lofted wind turbine can apparently achieve significant energy return on costs by being tethered high above the usual 300ft ceiling presented by ordinary tower-based turbines, delivering power for up to 65% cheaper than conventionally-built wind turbines that produce the same power. And that 65% figure assumes a height of 1000ft — …
Apr 29 2012
Richard Alley on the Expense of Clean Energy
Professor Richard Alley explains why switching to clean energy — that which does not output CO2 — is pretty much an infrastructure problem, one which we’ve already solved once. The technology we have to produce energy that does not rely on the burning of fossil fuels already exist, though they’re expensive. The main problems are …
Apr 28 2012
Fifteen years of cell phones, still no uptick in cancer
Sure, this Guardian article doesn’t frame it quite so vehemently, but I think after fifteen years, and the myriad studies done on the matter, the lack of appreciable increase in brain cancer rates should pretty much speak for itself. In the review, “Health Effects from Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields” the advisory group considered hundreds of peer …
Apr 27 2012
Canada’s bill C-31 would make us an isolationist country
Seems times are tough all over. The US just passed in the House a bill that effectively repeals the 4th Amendment, and as usual any time some really terrible bit of freedom-abrogating law is passed in the States, people are talking about moving to Canada. However, I’m really hoping they’re just joking, because they’re going …
Apr 26 2012
Pat Robertson: “Believe archaeologists. Except about origins, coz they weren’t there!”
Oh, Uncle Pat. You’ve hoisted yourself on your own petard again, haven’t you? In suggesting that Christians should believe geologists when they talk about stuff that happened three hundred million years ago, but not what scientists say about the origin of life “because they weren’t there”, you’re making the biggest argument from ignorance there is, …
Apr 25 2012
Mock The Movie: Frankenstein (2004) Transcript
Below the fold, as always, the transcript for Mock The Movie: Frankenstein. CompulsoryAccount7746 built a Python script that takes the transcript, from my blog post, and converts it into a subtitle file that can be viewed with VLC. It’s a great idea, but much as it pains me to say, it would be way easier …
Apr 25 2012
University of Dundee creates real-life Sonic Screwdriver
Hat tip to my real-life pal ReformedYankee. Fizzicists at the University of Dundee took their Doctor Who fandom to awesome extremes, by building a real-life sonic screwdriver. Well, sort of.
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