Categories: "Science"

ideas and growth on econtalk

December 14th, 2009
on the place of ideas contributing to growth - evidently a point not commonly recognized among economists Prosperity, Poverty, and Economics 2.0 (12/14/2009) - Arnold Kling of EconLog and the author (with Nick Schulz) of From Poverty to Prosperity: In… more »

Two satellites collide in orbit

February 11th, 2009
Usually when spacecraft are dying, the controllers know well enough in advance that they can command them to an out of the way place in space (or drive them to re-entry), but this one must have been a surprise failure of two redundant paths, happening in some sequence to quickly to react. more »

open sources on econtalk

January 19th, 2009
on the advent of the internet, net neutrality, the market for software engineers, and the aesthetic sense of the really good ones Hacking, Open Source, and the Cathedral and the Bazaar (1/19/2009) - Eric Raymond, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar… more »

kitzmiller versus dover, 2005

March 24th, 2007
A couple weeks ago I heard on Science Friday and also the Skeptics Guide to the Universe, commentaries that referred to the recent court case pertaining to teaching of evolution in the public schools.  It sounded interesting, so I looked it up on line a… more »

None dare...

October 29th, 2004
None dare ... call it conspiracy (because maybe this really is a hoax). "It" being whether the real story of the 9/11 Pentagon crash has been revealed. Actually there are lots of people who would call it conspiracy, but not me yet... Usually my resp… more »