2008 NASA Great Moonbuggy Race: Carleton University (2/26/09) (Photo credit: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center)
Cost per Megabase of DNA Sequence (Why biologists panic about compute) (Photo credit: dullhunk)
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Boeing 367-80 Jet Transport, with Concorde, Fox Alpha, Air France in the background (Photo credit: Chris Devers)
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An associate of the Heartland Institute, the thinktank devoted to discrediting climate change, taught a course at a top Canadian university that contained more than 140 false, biased and misleading claims about climate science, an expert audit has found.
The course at Ottawa's Carleton University, which is being accused of bias, was taught for four terms from 2009-2011 by Tom Harris, a featured expert at the Heartland Institute.
The Mound of Sound said...
Boris, what I don't get is how those involved from Carleton either overlooked or ignored this guy's history. This really makes no sense and the "academic freedom" excuse Carleton is peddling sounds like someone there is furiously trying to cover his ass. Knowing that The Guardian is on this can't sit well with Carleton. If they don't get to the bottom of this their reputation is in the toilet - again.
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non-scientific authors whose long lasting personnal theories or personnal interests are hardly compatible with the probable implications of fighting against climate change. That includes "diehard liberals", globally against any constraint whatsoever, a category to which probably belongs M. Philip Stott (writer of an 
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How Expensive is it to Track Internet Usage?
One of the aspects of the Bill C-30 story that puzzles me as a network technician is the concept that it will cost ISPs gobs of money to install the equipment necessary to log customer traffic once a warrant has been issued. Today it was reported that the cost will be "$80 million dollars"
What is this $80 million for? Is this to buy equipment at the ISP or is this to cover costs incurred by the federal government to setup some sort of bureaucracy to support the bill? I hate costs without details of what those costs are to be. What most people don't realize is that the capability to log and monitor traffic is baked into most network equipment already. Almost any network equipment sold to businesses has mirror or span port capability built in.
Playing Devil's Advocate on Bill C-30
HarperCon Crime Ideology Drives Me Crazy
The only "right" I am interested in as a citizen is the "right" to a safe and prosperous society for everyone. So that means I support pre-crime (heh) policies that reduce or eliminate the circumstances that encourage crime (poverty, lack of education, lack of neighborhood programs, smarter drug policies, etc. etc.)
To sum up the Harper approach so far:
1) Make sure convicted criminals go to prison longer than they have been in the past
2) Do nothing to speed up the trial process so that accused criminals stay in prison longer before they are convicted.
3) Deny parole more often so that convicts stay behind bars and have no incentive to atone for their crimes and change their behaviour.
4) Take away measures that help convicts learn skills and humanize their experiences (ending of prison farms)
5) Remove any financial assistance so that released ex-con lose all dignity and any possibility of supporting themselves when released into society.
( So the next time you hear Cons tout 'small government'...laugh out loud )
FBI anti-terrorism expert: TSA is useless
a former FBI Special Agent and head of the Los Angeles Joint Terrorism Task Force Al Qaeda squad, says that the TSA is useless. He says that they don't catch terrorists. He says they won't catch terrorists. He says that they can't catch terrorists
An Utter Waste Of Time
Question Period is supposed to be a means to maintain accountability. The whole concept revolves around the notion of the government answering to the issues of the day, the opposition playing its role in holding them to account, that’s the theory. In practice, an embarrassing display of nonsensical answers, it’s as though two parallel worlds exist that can never collide, just get the charade over with, make it until 3pm and everyone gets out of jail. Should anything of substance actually transpire, this is a seismic event, an anomaly that is really a byproduct of random chance, dumb luck, rather than true intent.
People who need a slap
using social media to draw attention to information already in the Public Domain as a response to proposed fascist legislation is EXACTLY like rendering meaningless the votes of swaths of the Canadian electorate and making a mockery of our very democracy.
The Six "S" of Scandal Stickiness
From my experience, there are 6 keys to a scandal "sticking", so let's see how Robocon stacks up. Robocon has more potential to inflict damage on Harper and the Conservatives than anything they've faced during their 6 years in power. Whether or not it does will depend on who exactly was involved.
Let Women’s History Month Begin!
Gerda Lerner, one of the first American women’s historians, said in 1986, “When I started working on women’s history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn’t think that women had a history worth knowing.” Women’s History Month as it’s celebrated now wasn’t established until 1987, expanded to the whole month six years after Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. Barbara Mikulski co-sponsored a a joint Congressional resolution proclaiming a national Women’s History Week
Introducing The Radical Women’s History Project
( :) That business about the word HIStory likely refers to state sanctioned accounts in the style of royal biographers : absent inconvenient truths. That's not sexism so much as arrogance of the privileged. )