Sunday, March 30, 2014

George Boole's Laws of Thought

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Everyone who knows computing knows the Boolean operators AND, NAND, OR, XOR, and NOT.  They allow us to construct conditional statements, an...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Central Texas Bee Rescue

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Crayons made from natural bees' wax Forty years ago, we were warned about African bees and Brazilian bees - and about global coolin...
Monday, March 24, 2014

The Market for Voting

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What does a capitalist renaissance look like? Most self-identified "conservatives" want some kind of a return to the original Con...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Around Austin

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The Wheatsville Co-op recently opened a second location closer to us on the south side of Austin , but the main store is still convenient s...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Incident Report

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On Thursday, March 20, 2014, at 0725 hours, I was crossing the parking lot on the west side of the Texas Department of Public Safe...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

How to Start Your Own Country

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Long before admirers of Ayn Rand dreamed of creating their own “Galt’s Gulch” secret retreat, adventurers and utopians started or ...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Pi in the Sky over Austin

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Coming home at 6:30 PM, I looked up and saw a strange cloud formation... it resolved...  3 141592... Five sky-writing aircraft from AirSig...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

Morality and Ethics

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Ayn Rand called her theory of egoism "Objectivist ethics." In her essays, she wrote mostly about morality and very little about et...
Friday, March 7, 2014

The Public Good be Damned

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On the "Galt's Gulch" website of the Atlas Shrugged movie producers, one of the regular writers asked about "Page 1069: ...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

Austin Energy Regional Science Festival 2014

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Bright young minds are always fun to be around. This was my third year judging the junior high school and senior high school entrants at our...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

America Pawned is America Pwned

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Rod Steiger in The Pawnbroker.  It does not matter which side of the counter you stand on. Pawn shops have taken one or two thousand y...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Fossils and Behaviors

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Sub-adult American alligator  in Pearl River Delta, Mississippi.  Photo by Kristine Gingras  from the journal artlcle. Crocodile...