Category Archives: Science

Storm : A beat poem by Tim Minchin

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Thanos

The animated movie and beat poem reveals an empiricist’s worst nightmare of a guest.

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Medical Devices coming to an IPOD or PC near you soon?

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Thanos

While in the hospital for my quint bypass last July one of the noteworthy things was how reliant the hospital is on moment by moment accurate measures of your vital signs to keep you healthy. The actual sensors they use … Continue reading →

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Dawkins Deservedly Pummels the Pope

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Thanos

Reality belies the Pope’s claim, indeed it seems that religious moral cowards are more likely to become Nazis than atheists, after all the current Pope did. Continue reading →

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The Fairies of the Gaps: Observation Alone is Not Science

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Thanos

Concordance has produced another great Skeptic video that explains the difference between observation and imagining cause vs. observation, hypothesis and test. This is the scientific method, and why PSI, Intelligent Design, and Fairy ring fallacies fail to move our real … Continue reading →

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Heart Rate

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Thanos

What amazed me during my studies were rest heart rates of cyclists and other athletes, e.g. Lance Armstrong – 32 bpm. After my bypass surgery they gave me a pacemaker when my heart dropped below fifty while I was deeply sleeping one night, and it only kicks in when my BPM goes too low. Continue reading →

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The Median is not the Message

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Thanos

Stephen Jay Gould’s encounter with cancer, and the statistics thereof. Continue reading →

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The Gross Details

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Thanos

I’m posting this ugly picture in the hope of saving some lives – without a cardio scan and some good referrals from docs who were both smart and caring, I wouldn’t have had this operation and sometime over the next … Continue reading →

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The Road to GLORY

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Thanos

NASA’s new climate satellite explained in detail Continue reading →

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Retroviruses, Pseudogenes, and Common Descent

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Thanos

Proofs of common descent that are pretty devastating to AIG, ICR’s, and Discovery Institute’s creationist arguments are the genetic histories of our species. Continue reading →

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How To Be a Denialist in Ten Easy Steps

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Thanos

In the latest New Scientist they cover the ever blooming fields of denialism that popped up everywhere or that bloomed anew in the first decade of the new millennium. One of their references is an important paper from Martin Mckee, … Continue reading →

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