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Archive for September, 2008

Wind Power Versus Efficiency

A topic that caught my interest is the Pickens Plan, a plan that claims to reduce American dependence on foreign oil. During the months that I continued watching for additional information, never did the Pickens Plan actually state what the plan is. Many residents in the Texas panhandle are familiar with Boone Pickens, and many [...]

William James Sidis – When a Prodigy is not a Prodigy

In a recent email to a friend, on the topic of conceptual physics, and relative to my comment in the previous blog entry of “The word “supernatural” means nothing to me, it is an empty and hollow nonsensical word, for if all that exists is Nature, then how can anything exist outside of what is [...]

Three Logic Links

Three Logic Links A very useful set of web pages is found at http://www.uwgb.edu/DutchS/index.html. Of immediate interest is Steve Dutch’s Intelligent Design and Unintelligent People http://www.uwgb.edu/DutchS/PSEUDOSC/IntelDesign.HTM. “So here’s a challenge. Find a few believers in Intelligent Design and ask them to list three logical links that have to be established before they can reason from [...]

Favorite Bach Cantata 21

One of my most favorite LPs of the early 1980s was Bach’s Cantata 21 conducted by Helmuth Rilling and performed by Arleen Auger and numerous other excellent performers. For over three years I spent eight to sixteen hours a day studying while often simultaneously playing computer chess with the background music of Bach and others. [...]