Godwinizing Climate Change
S Andrew Swann | February 15, 2010
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When science becomes politicized it stops being science.
S Andrew Swann | December 8, 2009
Scientific research is based on the idea of review, so others can reproduce your results. Peer review should not be about insuring a pre-determined outcome. It certainly shouldn’t be about intimidation of reporters. Is shouldn’t be about politicians defining what the “real science” is. Especially when they’re repeatedly wrong about it. Who really should be [...]
Things That Happened When I Wasn’t Blogging – Part 1
S Andrew Swann | November 30, 2009
While I was out, it seems we found out the science on Global Warming is a lot less settled than Al Gore would like us to believe. At the risk of being called the moral equivalent of a Holocaust denier, I can’t say that this particularly surprises me. When we talk about climate scientists (the [...]
This is fantastic.
S Andrew Swann | September 30, 2009
And now for something completely upbeat. (Thanks MGK)
The Trufflemobile
S Andrew Swann | September 21, 2009
Truffles, our Chocolate Lab, has not had a very good couple of months. She’s been slowing down for a while, and showing some weakness in her back end that we assumed was due to age. Last July we took her down to Bow-wow beach for what was probably the last time. By [...]
The fools laughed at my army of cannibal robots
S Andrew Swann | July 21, 2009
I bet you thought I was kidding.
I bet you thought such things would never see any practical use.
I bet you believe them when they say that their mission is not to build “futuristic robots” to “feed on the human population”
Will you feel that way when they start building themselves?
(Props to Elizabeth Bear and Patrick Nielsen [...]
Math Pr0n
S Andrew Swann | December 11, 2008
From Rudy Rucker’s blog, a truly trippy demo. As Rudy says, “the controls do work, but it takes a while to figure them out. Like using an alien iPhone that dropped out of a flying saucer.”
The stuff that really changes the world
S Andrew Swann | October 2, 2008
There’s a bias in SF and its brethren such as alternate history to do world building around the big ass stuff; wars, revolutions, catastrophes. Or, for the sciencey mindset, the big ass discoveries that change our understanding of cosmology or fundamental physics, or some sort of massive engineering or computing breakthrough that has us [...]
And here is why political discourse is so cocked up
S Andrew Swann | September 13, 2008
The generally used definition of othering goes along like this:
The belief/insistence that someone outside the group is somehow, “categorically, topologically, intrinsically, DIFFERENT.” Also, the use of this belief, the not-understandable “other,” to re-affirm the group’s “normalcy” and identity.
There you go, the human history of race, sex and gender identity wrapped up in a neat [...]
The things you don’t see until someone points it out.
S Andrew Swann | April 18, 2008
Just saw an interesting post on The Feminist SF Blog that draws attention to one of those little cultural blind spots that are really useful in worldbuilding. You know, the kind of thing everyone takes for granted, so when they read about another culture (real or fictional) that does it differently they’re all like [...]
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