Micah Tillman

Stories like this make my little heart go pitter-pat:
“Scientists closer to developing invisibility cloak“
When I’m with my grandparents (any of the 5 of them) I often find myself thinking about the technological/medicinal advancements made since they were young.
Then I start to wonder how barbaric the technology and medicine of today will look when I get [...]

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. . . [D]espite accelerating emission rates and concentrations, there’s been no net warming in the 21st century. It don’t add up!
-Marlo Lewis

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The National Climactic Data Center’s preliminary report:
For the contiguous United States, the average temperature for April was 51.0°F (10.6°C), which was 1.0°F (0.6°C) below the 20th century mean and ranked as the 29th coolest April on record, based on preliminary data.
Unfortunately, I don’t know how useful these data are, given the disclaimer:
All temperature and precipitation [...]

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(Speaking of religion and the environment . . . .)
Iain Murray writes, tongue-in-cheek:
Even the American homeless emit twice as much carbon dioxide as the world average, the wastrels.
He cites a new MIT study, reported by EPOnline:
“Regardless of income, there is a certain floor below which the individual carbon footprint of a person in the U.S. [...]

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Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
Allow me to remind you that there are never two sides to any story.
Never.
No matter what I tell my students.

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Gaus is the first to respond to de Jasay’s article (which I summarized here). His primary claim seems to be that de Jasay’s talk of “standards” (or concerns which seem to involve no “interest”) should be expanded to include our “evolved” human “moral sense.”
Government can only grow so far as people feel is morally acceptable. [...]

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From a person in an advertisement for a show on truTV:
People lie. Science doesn’t.
Do I have to say what’s wrong with that attitude? Try this one instead:
People lie. God doesn’t.
No, no. Wait. This one is a classic (I saw it on a bumper sticker so long ago):
God said it. I believe it. That settles [...]

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My apologies for not having posted recently. I’m in the middle of a very big project that’s using up all of my creative energy. My wife and I have been commissioned to write two small-group study guides for two books — and when I’m not writing final exams and grading, I’m working on that.
There’s a [...]

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I was wandering about the apartment seeking the pair of pants I wished to wear. I couldn’t find them even though I checked the only possible places.
Then I caught myself wishing I could just google them.
It reminds me of the time I wanted to turn to the next page in my book, so I hit [...]

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Anybody seen this?
[T]he latest US satellite figures [show] temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest year of all being not [...]

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