Yearly Archives: 2005
The 1st Anniversary Tangled Bank
Yes, the 1 year anniversary edition of The Tangled Bank is up at Circadiana. This entry is interesting:
If you think the Creationist stickers in textbooks are a new development, think again. Dave, a physicist blogging on Second Order Approximation translates for us the old Osiander Sticker that warns the audience that Copernicus’s stuff is “just a theory”. No kidding.
There is precedent for the ongoing evolution/creationism debates:
And even though scientists had all but agreed that the Copernican system was indisputably correct by the close of the 17th century, theologians and popular writers on science continued to argue over whether or not to accept the theory for another 100 years. In terms of education, although it was taught in many schools from 1700 on, the Sun-centered solar-system did not become the sole model taught at Cracow Academy in Copernicus’s native country of Poland until 1782. That’s almost 240 years.
There’s plenty of variety at the anniversary edition including snails, vulvas, mind control, genetics, health care, and much, much more.
Be Happy
the authors report that simply being happy — at work and at play — is directly related with specific bodily functions that protect against cardiovascular disease, diabetes, autoimmune deficiencies and stress-related illnesses.
Hmm, the test subjects were all British civil servants but are they representative of the rest of us? The British part is ok…I’m just not so sure about the civil servant part….
Movable Type 3.16
Six Apart released MT 3.16 earlier today. It looks like an easy upgrade if you are a 3.1 or above user.
I’ll wait a week or so before upgrading to see if any critical bugs are shaken out by early adopters.
What Henley Says!
Now, in a breakthrough described as the classical equivalent of finding the holy grail, Oxford University scientists have employed infra-red technology to open up the hoard, known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and with it the prospect that hundreds of lost Greek comedies, tragedies and epic poems will soon be revealed.
Heck, if this does nothing more than get us to reread the dusty volumes that have been sitting on the shelf untouched for years it is monumental. That there may be recoverable complete or near complete new works is thick frosting on a tasty cake.