Author Archives: Anton

who stole whose concept?

Atheism and Unalienable Rights by Robert E. Meyer (also cited today on RRND): Skeptics want to deny that rights come from God, but if they are correct, then there is no sound philosophical footings undergirding their perpetual claim to any … Continue reading

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liens du jour

Goodies from today’s Rational Review News Digest: “Statist Joe” by Gil Guillory, a response to “Conservative Joe”, a Progressive satire that has been going around and is included as a footnote. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking … Continue reading

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constitutional reform of the week

Michael Bradshaw: The House of Repeals

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stock up on iridium supplement tablets

Suppose we launch a self-replicating system of robots that look for asteroids that might hit Earth, land on them and build engines to steer them into Earth-avoiding orbits. Megayears later, might we find the biosphere depleted of some trace element … Continue reading

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Ravenna Park

Logging this so I can find it later: a favorite parable of private-sector conservation is that of William Beck’s Ravenna Park in Seattle. 2006: that link has gone bad, but here’s another.

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Vishnu Integrating Analog Computer?

Mars has a crater named Vishniac. If you’re anything like me, you’re curious about the etymology of such a name: it doesn’t fit the spelling and morphology of any language that comes to mind. Ephraim Vishniac tells all.

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parabolic, baby!

What d’ya know, there is a commercial Vomit Comet.

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