Science and Technology

General Science

  • Alternative Therapies & Imagination Proponents claim alternative therapies such as shiatsu, acupuncture, healing touch, reiki, etc. are scientific in a way that we just don't understand yet. But does this hold up when compared to the physiological effects of a horror movie?
  • Science vs. Pseudoscience: Essential Differences There are essential differences between science and pseudoscience, which are the reason our world has experienced such a deluge of pseudoscience recently-- and will probably continue to.
  • Evolution Evolution and Natural Selection: NOT equivalent to filling a bucket with parts and stirring.
  • Reason, Intuition, and Religious Tolerance Comparing and constrasting reason and intuition, good and bad theories, experience and explanations, logic and reason-- all leading to my conclusion on the 'religious tolerance' that has been demanded of me recently.
  • Analysis of Electronic Voice Phenomena EVP is the belief you can use your TV set or radio as a divination tool. Really?

Computers & Technology

  • FrontierNet Internet Review My review of FrontierNet high speed Internet service: frustrating, with a side of works okay, if you fight with it and buy your own modem.
  • The Problems of the Bazaar A response to Eric Raymond's Cathedral and the Bazaar asserting that the rapid change, excess competition, and increasing complexity of Open Source is hurting involvement, and that the OSS movement must address its issues or it will eventually experience declining participation.