Just capturing a link to “Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald” – the PBS Frontline documentary from 1993. This is the full 3 hour version – different edits have slightly different introductory sequences, and there are shorter versions shown at various times on other international networks. It’s the best version I know of – gives time [...]
Entries from March 2012
For The Record
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March 28, 2012 at 12:14pm
by Psybertron
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Not Science
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March 27, 2012 at 7:58am
by Psybertron
Great story full of potential and, like any potential, synthetic biology will have its risks of misuse too. My point is not to confuse this with science – it really is engineering technology based-on science. As well as being up-front on decisions of risk and morality, I particularly like the reference to encoded information being [...]
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No Environmental Risk ?
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March 27, 2012 at 7:44am
by Psybertron
Hmmm, the environment proves pretty resilient to these disasters in the medium term, but “no risk” is a tall claim. Lots of condensate already and very sour and CO2-rich gas from a deep unproductive well. Wonder how long they can avoid ignition ? Presumably no option of “detaching” this fixed platform from the scene ? [...]
Trust – again
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March 26, 2012 at 10:22am
by Psybertron
Less can be more when it comes to public communication, yet again: Some will assume that the only reason [not to] publish a full list …. is because they have something to hide …. There is, though, one other reason – a worry about where transparency will stop. When the public loses trust in institutions they [...]
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Archbishop to Cambridge
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March 16, 2012 at 11:01am
by Psybertron
Now that is an interesting move – could be best use of his undoubted intellect, though I see his role is as Master (of Magdelene).
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Scientism’s Flywheel of Pride
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March 12, 2012 at 4:30pm
by Psybertron
Interesting piece “What is Science? What is Language?” from Ted Lumley. Must read the Whorf and Mach references. Here is Ted’s summary: There is a problem here in that the scientific way of understanding that has been the very foundation of Western civilization is a rising source of incoherence. So long as we stick with [...]
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Compare and Contrast
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March 12, 2012 at 11:37am
by Psybertron
A couple of weeks since I blogged – just too busy with work and travel – but as usual that combination gave me reading time on west-bound Atlantic flights. Two recent reads of note: The (reverend)Â Sam Norton’s “Let Us Be Human, Christianity for a Collapsing Culture” and (atheist) Philip Pullman’s “The Good Man Jesus and [...]
