The Big Bounce Instead of the Big Bang

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Check out this link for a new argument against the Big Bang theory. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070130091159.htm

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No BIG BANG, it's a BIG BOUNCE instead

post from CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries on 11 March 2007 09:06:59 PM. © CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries

Check out this link for a new argument against the Big Bang theory. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070130091159.htm

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Assembly of Vacuum Tube Radio Kit

post from CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries on 11 March 2007 06:20:57 PM. © CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries

From MAKE Magazine: Shawn sent in a neat video from a radio hobbyist in Toronto, Canada, who's put together a Gakken regenerativ...

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LED Candles React to Wind Just Like The Real Deal

post from CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries on 11 March 2007 06:09:51 PM. © CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries

From technabob: These minimal LED lights are designed to act like a real candle by flickering in the wind, and automatically tur...

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Making Sense of Standards

post from CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries on 11 March 2007 06:02:15 PM. © CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries

From Control Design | Industrial Automation Engineering & Factory Systems: As we look back at how machine automation has changed...

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Blocks of Ice: Newsletter Challenge (03/13/07)

post from CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries on 11 March 2007 06:01:00 PM. © CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries

The question as it appears in the 03/13 edition of Techs & Specs from GlobalSpec: You have two blocks of ice with the same volume. One has...

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How to teach a religion class

post from Pharyngula on 11 March 2007 06:00:00 PM. © Pharyngula

Scalzi makes an impractical, mocking suggestion (hey, isn't that all he does?) for how to teach comparative religion:

Incidentally, there's a simple solution to the problem of teaching the history and literature of religions in public schools without "accidentally" tipping over into, you know, proselytizing: Have atheists teach the classes. Yes, that will go over swell, I know. I'm just saying.

He's right, it would never fly, but I have a suggestion that might make it work. Two rules:

The person teaching the course may not at any time or in any way, even indirectly, discuss his or her own religion.
All discussion of any religion must be value-neutral, that is, you can't talk about what's "good" or "bad", just state the historical and doctrinal facts.

Since most teachers are going to be Christian, that means Christianity would get short shrift, which isn't appropriate…but the obvious solution there is to have guest lecturers. Invite the local Muslim or Buddhist in to summarize Christianity from his or her perspective. That alone, of course, would guarantee that the instructor couldn't be some raving fundie—imagine a David Paszkiewicz having to sit quietly at the back of the room while a Dawkins-like atheist or a Muslim like Keith Ellison explained Christianity to the class.

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US Time Switch Set to Save Energy

post from CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries on 11 March 2007 05:55:37 PM. © CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries

From BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition: The US has switched to daylight saving time, or summer time, three weeks earlier th...

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The Biggest Geek and the SF List

PZ, Bora, Orac, John, and others have all put up posts about a list of the 50 most significant Science Fiction and Fantasy works of the last fifty years. As the reigning Geek-Lord of ScienceBlogs, I figured that I had to weigh in as well. Here's the list: the one's that I've read are bold-faced.

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very small motor needed

post from CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries on 11 March 2007 05:02:29 PM. © CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries

dear all, i need to ask about the smallest size of motors that can rotate power screw that left wight 20 kg. i need this in medical sect...

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