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Einstein’s God and the Hungry Spider

Friday, August 28th, 2009

In the midst of his historic debate with Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein famously declared that god does not play dice with the cosmos.  Einstein was objecting to the then-new conclusions from quantum mechanics that the world was fundamentally probabilistic rather than deterministic.   The proposal that the world is inherently...
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To Find God…Just Skip Lunch

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

For millennia peoples across the globe have searched for a means of getting closer to and finding god.  Elaborate ceremony, choreographed rituals, ornate clothing, enormous houses of worship and convoluted oral histories have all been employed to this task.  But the simple answer to god’s discovery has been right under our...
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From Death Panel to Death Spiral

Monday, August 17th, 2009

A positive feedback loop is defined as a system that responds to a disturbance in the same direction as the disturbance. With every small input the response gets amplified, growing ever larger until the system collapses. In the physical world, one of the most famous examples is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which collapsed in the...
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Bible Study in Public Schools: Let’s Pray on It

Monday, August 10th, 2009

The Legislature in Texas in a fit of religious fervor mandated in 2007 that starting in 2009 public schools must teach the “literature and history” of the Good Book. To avoid the obvious constitutional problems of separating Church and State, the law is carefully worded to provide a fig...
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