The permanent lesson that the Galileo case represents pushes us to keep alive the dialogue between the various disciplines, and in particular between theology and the natural sciences, if we want to prevent similar episodes from repeating themselves in the future.

The, er, wise words of Cardin...

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My ego knowing no bounds I recently installed a spiffy web analyzer called Slimstat. There were problems -- aren't there always? -- but eventually I got it up and running and could see how few people were visiting my site. Then I had to reinstall it, because I had messed up the first time. Now I s...

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Oh but this is interesting and creepy and ... well, let us just wait and see.

Nicholas Carr posted about the Mechanical Turk now lurking within Amazon. the idea is simple and complex. People are better at some things than computers. So tell your computer program to enlist human help when it ne...

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The things some people will stoop to. I was amazed to discover that the second most popular bookmark on del.icio.us when I looked a minute ago was 13 things that do not make sense. Well, that's not so amazing. What is amazing is that whoever sixside is gave no credit whatsoever to New Scientist,...

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A fine evening, as a Philistine among the anointed. My first exposure to the term “appropriation art” though not, I subsequently discovered, to appropriation art itself. Some of it I think I understand, the visual equivalent of musical sampling. Some I definitely don’t, the artistic equivalent of s...

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