The archives of my thousands of posts since 2005 that used to be at my old site have been copied over here, so that they are now available at both places. Because of the size and other complications, the work was tedious and time consuming and I want to acknowledge my deep gratitude to Jason …

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One commenter to my previous post wondered if I could write about the Big Bang model, dark matter, dark energy, and so on in a manner accessible to the lay reader. This raises an interesting issue of what to do about the posts that I wrote before I moved here and which are currently archived …

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I have chosen as my comment policy that the first comment by someone has to be approved by me but once approved that person will be able to post comments freely. I will try to check frequently and apologize in advance if work and other pressures result in delays and your first comment not appearing …

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I’d like to thank Ed Brayton and the rest of the people at Freethought Blogs for inviting me to join them. I am not new to blogging, however, having done it for nearly seven years over at my old site which contains the archive of old posts that I hope to copy over here in …

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A new study says that people start losing their brain powers as early as 45 years of age. The results of the tests show that cognitive scores declined in all categories except vocabulary – and there was a faster decline in older people. The study found a 9.6% decline in mental reasoning in men aged …

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… and best wishes for the New Year to all the readers of this blog. Since my family is visiting over the holiday week, blogging will be lighter than usual. Regular blogging will resume on Tuesday, January 4, 2012.

The new film version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is being released today. I have not read the books but saw the Swedish trilogy of films and they were pretty good. They are also recent, all being released in 2009 so I don’t understand the reasons for this remake. The new version also …

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Yes, it’s that time of year to have fun seeing the people over at Fox News get into a lather over people not using the word ‘Christmas’ everywhere. The best part of this war is that it not only gives The Daily Show plenty of material for mockery, it also allows them to set the …

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Four years ago, I made the obvious point of why spreading the wealth was much better for everyone than great inequality. (I wrote a whole series of posts on this but this particular one is the most relevant here.) The oligarchy and its allies, especially those in the Republican party and Fox News, have fought …

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Apparently that’s what a billboard company in north central Ohio said in refusing to put it up. However the company is quite willing to post religious billboards. The whole story is quite bizarre. (Via Pharyngula) This illustrates once again that religious people resort to the strategy of ‘taking offense’ because they have no rational arguments …

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