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Blogs I Read

Posted in Blogs at 9:43 pm by Kevin

I don’t read a large number blogs, but here are the ones that I go to almost daily:

Science:

Geology News — lots of Earth Science stuffThe Evangelical Ecologist — ‘Cause the world’s not ours to mess up

Christianity:

World Magazine BlogCranach — Gene Edward VeithBe Bold, Be Gentle — Christian Encouragement for MenInternet Monk — Dispatches from the post-Evangelical Wilderness

Here are some blogs that I go to occasionally:

Sciam Observations — from the skeptics at Scientific AmericanRealClimate — Climate science from climate scientistsCyberbrethren — Christ-centered LutheranismExtreme Theology — Not a fan of Rick WarrenGod’s Politics — Jim Wallis and FriendsBlog and Mablog — Doug WilsonPyromaniacs — Phil Johnson, who works with John MacArthur

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Snipped from the HuffingtonPost.com.

Well, here we go again. Japan is surpassing us and this time it’s in broadband access. Compared to the U.S. Japan has access that is 30 times faster than the U.S. As a result, we are being left in the dust when it comes to “experiencing innovation and enjoying applications that Americans simply don’t have access to.” In Japan, you can watch broadcast-quality, full-screen television over the internet. All we have is grainy, wallet-sized images. With Japan’s ultra-high-speed applications, they are introducing into the market low-cost, high-definition teleconferencing and telemedicine which allows doctors to diagnose diseases remotely. And, their advanced telecommuting is helping Japan reach their target of doubling the number of people who work from home by 2010. So, what happened to the U.S.?

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Blogs that link to The Earth is Not Flat!

Posted in Blogs at 9:08 pm by Kevin

I’ve recently discovered that the following blogs have links to The Earth is Not Flat!:

Driftless Skies — Southeast Minnesota. Weather to fishing and moreThe Christian Environmentalist — Exploring environmental issues from a Christian perspective

This is in addition to some other blogs that have had a link to my blog for quite some time:

Be Bold, Be Gentle — Christian encouragement for menThe Evangelical Ecologist

Thanks for the links. If anyone sees other sites that link to this blog, let me know.

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by David Bradley

Mika Aaltonen of the BIT Research Centre at the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland argues that at the very fundamental level, human beings are storytelling animals, this premise may seem obvious but arises not because we like fairytales and fables but because of the way we perceive cause and effect. By learning from this revelation it might be possible to understand life stories, consciousness, biological systems, climate economic and business models, and countless physical processes that do not follow the simplistic beginning-middle-end narrative model of cause and effect.

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Great Whites get all the attention, but the waters of the San Francisco Bay are teeming with other, smaller sharks (like the leopard shark), who occupy the top spot on the Bay food chain. Where do they live? What is their relationship with sharks on the coastal waters? How do their social structures work? How many are there? There are many unanswered questions about the Bay’s sharks, but in order to study these animals, researchers have to catch them first.

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do YOU know why polarized lenses are better
at shading your eyes?

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Bibles in Other Languages — Not Available

Posted in Christianity at 9:12 pm by Kevin

The New Testament has been translated into over 1500 languages, but if someone from Bangladesh or Somalia moves in next door to you, good luck trying to get a copy for them. In fact, many of these translations are not even available on the internet. It turns out that cooperation between various Bible societies is limited, and there is no place in North America (not even the internet) where one can order Bibles in most of these 1500 languages.

From Christianity Today:

“I didn’t know it would be such an ordeal,” Richardson said. Her staff spent weeks chasing dead-end leads before finally sleuthing out an online catalog specializing in non-English Scripture. Richardson ordered 10 Somali Bibles, only to find just one Somali New Testament in stock.

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Snipped from WashingtonPost.com.

Is there no stopping a man who thinks he has a mandate from God? No, because he feels there is no higher authority–not Congress, not the American people and not even his own Intelligence Estimates and now the Government Accountability Office…oh wait, of course he would ignore that one since neither he, nor any of his people, have been accountable for anything. The GAO draft reported in the Washington Post paints a bleak picture of what is going on in Iraq and more pointedly comments on the success of the “surge”. Does it surprise anyone out there that it will be in stark contrast to what the White House will cook up next month? So, what does the GAO have to say?

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by David Bradley

As regular Sciencebase readers will know, I write a regular chemistry news round-up for ChemWeb under the plome-de-nume of The Alchemist. This is the latest incarnation of a column I first wrote for the original ChemWeb.com almost a decade ago. ChemWeb is now owned by chemical industry search engine chemindustry.com, which is fast developing the site into an indispensable resource for anyone working in the chemical sciences.

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do YOU know why polarized lenses are better
at shading your eyes?

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