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Posts made in September, 2012

Science: Where Activists Don’t Want You To Be Blinded By Reason

Are you in favor of solar power?  Good luck getting any large scale installations to go up.  While energy activists want to get rid of fossil fuels and support solar power, environmental activists block solar plants with lawsuits. And then there is the union left, who block solar projects for environmental reasons too - unless the company agrees to use union labor even in a...

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XM25 ‘Punisher’ – Cool Tech For Nasty Business

The XM25 Counter-Defilade Target Engagement System is not new. The 1970s myth of military contractors throwing rubbish out there for high costs (well, mostly myth - just like the myth that NASA put a man on the moon, when military contractors did) is just a myth. The military is exceedingly slow to approve anything these days and so XM25 "Punisher" has been looked at for 10 years. 

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Organic Versus Natural: The Prop 37 Fiasco Gets Sillier

Newspapers and journalists have given a lot of coverage to Proposition 37, the oddly named California Right to Know Genetically Modified Food Act. read...

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Ethical Debate: Choosing Gender Of Babies Is A Parental Right

Here's an ethics doozy, hot on the heels of some ethicists in England contending that not only is late-term abortion an ethical right, post-delivery abortion is an ethical right.This isn't quite so controversial, but still taking a contrarian position to the knee-jerk reaction that gender selection is bad.  Virtually everyone says it is bad and yet virtually every country has people doing...

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Weekend Science: Will Your Beer Survive A Nuclear Blast?

The Apocalypse is coming. read...

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