Category Archives: Science
Quotation of the Day
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 1st October 2012The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits. Albert Einstein
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On Climate
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 9th August 2012July of this year was the hottest July in US history. This heat, as usual, was attributed by some to man-made global warming. Interestingly, this July was substantially cooler than last July in Lubbock where I live. Go here for all the data. What does this prove? Nothing other than selectively choosing data can give you almost any result…
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The First Artificial Cell?
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 9th June 2010Last month the news media heralded the creation in the lab of the first artificial cell. This work was a great achievement, but it wasn’t the creation of an artificial cell. What was done at the J Craig Venter Institute was creation of an artificial bacterial chromosome that was successfully transferred into a bacterium where…
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Sea Levels 81,000 Years Ago
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 28th February 2010Climate scientists have used sea levels past and present to help predict those of the future. Temperature affects land ice; increased land ice will lower sea levels while the melting of this ice will raise these levels. Thus increased sea levels (secondary to ice melting) reflect a warmer global temperature. The scientific debate about what…
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Skeptical Science
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 3rd June 2008I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. Richard Feynman When I sit on a tropical beach I like to read a fat book. Therefore, while recently on vacation, I started a big book on the history of Western science. It’s a good popular account of…
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