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Intelligently designed debate

By Frank ⋅ November 30, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Newsnight broadcast an interesting debate between two professors about a teaching pack on intelligent disign sent to UK schools. I know for sure that one of the two professors has a formal training in biology, namely professor Lewis Wolpert. Pay special attention to the Paxman-like style of questioning by professor Wolpert when he demands the other professor [...]

Cruel twist of fate

By Frank ⋅ November 29, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The founding father of the only method to quit smoking that never worked for me has died at the tender age of 72, from lung cancer… Allen Carr dies from lung cancer An anti-smoking guru who has helped millions of smokers kick the habit has died from lung cancer.

“Safe” technologies

By Frank ⋅ November 16, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

In concurrence with my previous post/quote, Philip Ball from Nature News has written an excellent opinion article about the paper Safe handling of nanotechnology that is published in this week’s issue of Nature. In this paper an international team of scientists present a five-point scheme for the “safe handling of nanotechnology”. But as Philip Ball points [...]

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