No, global warming isn’t a problem. Not at all. It might be too controversial to say that those who deny Global Warming are like Holocaust Deniers—say, they are denying a coming Holocaust—because of the moral weight of the first Holocaust on the public mind. But I think if you consider the number of deaths, the amount of destruction, the kind of instability that people in power are bringing on by denying that Global Warming is a dangerous thing and that our role in it is probably less than negligible, the term Ecocaust Deniers might be fitting. It’s even worse because, …

In case the educated Americans among my readers were feeling bad, it might help to know that 89% of Brazil is as pig-ignorant about evolution as the majority of Americans. Oh well, at least 54% believe in a god-influenced form of teleogical evolution, de Chardin-style, which I can live with, I suppose. UPDATE: I have to admit, though, that Chad Orzel has a good point about this, if you look at the statistics in America over time. And this open letter makes some good sense about how the responses of those surveyed may tell us more about a great schism …

Apophenia thinks that syndication and youth culture aren’t so compatible, and that RSS is more for the infogeeks while youth culture seems to flock more to things like LiveJournal. What gets me about syndication is not my personal neuroses around it (although i fear that others will be pushed over the edge with the continuous increase in feeds). What gets me about syndication is that i can’t resolve the proposed models with the usage patterns i see in youth culture. I don’t know, there may be something to this, but I also think some hybrid might evolve. When I was …

Over at CERN they’re still looking for the Higgs Boson, but if we’re not careful the climate might render any such finds less than immediately relevant.

It’d be really nice to be able to SMS my friends in other countries. I thought it might be possible using this service, Free SMS @ SMS.ac, which Joi Ito recently mentioned, but I couldn’t find out whether it’d work in Korea till after I signed up. Unfortunately, it doesn’t, and I can’t see that changing anytime soon. Argh.