Links for 29-10-2006
In praise of atheism, London’s domestic wind turbines, biometric scanners in Scottish school…
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“The last couple of years I’ve been pleased to see an outbreak of out-and-out criticism of religion, not just for the bad things religious folks do in the name of religion, but for the silliness and harmfulness of religion itself.”
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2 – sea.net“…what “a permanent presence in the ocean” might look like, if that “presence” consisted entirely of man-made submersibles.” Good stuff at BLDGBLOG.
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“Evidence from soil inside the remains of a 5600-year-old horse yard indicates that the ancient Botai people of Kazakhstan were among the earliest to domesticate horses.” Borat apparently unavailable for comment.
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“Domestic wind turbines are gaining in popularity in Britain, where some 80,000 homes now use small renewable power generation units to provide energy for residents…” Excellent. Start the revolution in your own home.
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“…if the Viking scientists had known these results thirty years ago, they would have interpreted Viking’s work differently [...] we can’t discount organic molecules in the soil, which probably houses 1,000 times as many organic molecules as Viking d
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“The cafeteria [...] has gone cashless and students are buying lunches by holding their hands over a palm-vein recognition unit produced by Glasgow-based Yarg Biometrics. It’s the first school to use the system.”
