Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 3/30/2006 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 3/30/2006

Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors at Seed.

Playing with mathematical machines
Mark of Good Math, Bad Math explains Turing machines in a “good math” installment.
Careful, I might actually start to think that someone out there takes me seriously
Orac crows about his callout in the Financial Times.
Bush Says Global Warming May Be “Natural”
Apparently there’s a controversy about the cause of global warming. Who knew? Scientists sure didn’t.
Creationist email: the asymmetry misconception
PZ answers a polite science question from an ID advocate.
How Evil Are You
The ScienceBloggers are evil…but not that evil.

Originally published March 29, 2006

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