It’s always refreshing when the journalists actually get science news right. Regarding the Large Hadron Collider:
But there has been a struggle to explain to the public that, though this energy is vast from the perspective of a circulating proton, each collision between a pair of protons will release an amount of energy comparable to [...]

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This article was linked to on Digg recently, and there has been some misunderstanding of its content. It concerns a discovery of a new catalyst that could make it possible to use sunlight to directly split water into hydrogen and oxygen. This might turn out to be quite important in the future (if we start [...]

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I am a big fan of Consumer Reports magazine. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a consumer information and advocacy magazine. In each issue, it selects groups of products (e.g. computers, televisions, lawn mowers, refrigerators), and makes recommendations based on a battery of tests, surveys, and investigation of the product. It tests [...]

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Science and religion are similar in that they both seek to answer questions about natural phenomenon. They both try to come up with plausible explanations for how observable phenomenon appear. Whereas science tells us how inheritance and natural selection causes genetic variance in populations over time (evolution), religion tells us that a divine [...]

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If there’s one thing I hate, it’s when people take science and corrupt it for their own political ends. In recent years, global warming has been - pardon the pun - a rather hot topic; hardly a day goes by when you don’t hear about it in one form or another. The environmentalists have championed [...]

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While we here in Canada celebrate Canada Day today, there’s yet another reason for jubilation!  One hundred and fifty years ago today, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace first read the theory of Evolution by Natural Selection to London’s Linnean Society, establishing a new paradigm in both the fields of biology and medicine and bringing [...]

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Table O’ Miracles

God
Science/Technology

Lead Moses out of Egypt and into the Promised Land
Landed men on the Moon.

Parted the Red Sea
Dykes in the Netherlands permanently holding back the sea

Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Resurrected Jesus
Cured thousands of diseases, and brings people back from “traditional” death on a regular basis

Caused a global flood
Global warming

God [...]

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Science and religion have an unstable relationship. Oftentimes they are content to stay separate and do their own things. Occasionally, they clash over certain issues of public policy. However, are these two world-views actually compatible, and if not, which one is correct?

Let us look at the last part of that statement first. A favorite argument [...]

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The BBC posted an article a while back, announcing, “Trust drug may cure social phobia.” Arguably, this article may be jumping the gun a little in terms of efficacy of the product, but the BBC does tend to be pretty good with this type of stuff, and the headline does include the important word may. [...]

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No, this isn’t going to be a political rant about the war in Iraq, or our dependence on (foreign) oil. I want to look at the price of gas, and tackle the assertion that gas prices are too high, and that high gas prices are a bad thing.

We often complain that we (Canadians, but [...]

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