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Sat, 12 Jun 2004

According to the Seattle P-I, the Washington State Ferry system has it's first wifi enabled boat up and running. Unfortunately, it was on a route that I didn't ride last night. But maybe by the next trip things will up and running on the Bainbridge Island route.

[00:09] | [places/us/wa/bainbridge_island] | # | TB | F | G | 1 Comments |

Science is a religion

Joshua Allen (with a little help from Dare) is writing about science. Dare definitely gets the quote for this;

science is the modern world's new superstition

This is truer than many people would like to admit, especially highly educated folks. I saw this a lot when I was an undergraduate. There were various members of the faculty at MIT that would loudly proclaim their understanding and mastery on various aspects of natural science. I always viewed this with some suspicion, and I always appreciated the professors who would get to a certain point and say "and we just don't understand how it works here"

Much of the American populace is so in the dark about science, the scientific process, and the politics of the scientific process that it's hard for them to judge assertions "backed" by science. For these folks, the difference between scientific and religious assertions is pretty minimal.

[00:06] | [culture] | # | TB | F | G | 7 Comments |

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