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The evolution of evolution
The same genes grow arms and legs and fish fins for all animals.
Dad • Ideas • 01/08/10 • 0 commentsThe Advent Conspiracy
What if we spent less on Christmas and donated more?
Patrick • Ideas • 12/16/09 • 2 commentsOur shared wealth
Why are all the corporations laughing all the way to the bank?
Dad • Ideas • 04/11/09 • 0 commentsIs Google Making Us Stupid?
Is Google Making Us Stupid is a great article about the effects of the internet on us humans.
David • Ideas • 09/10/08 • 4 commentsLow impact house
Look at this fairy-tale house and tell me you wouldn’t feel like a hobbit if you lived there....
Dad • Ideas • 12/10/06 • 1 commentsThe Energy Diet
A New York Times article about going on an energy diet to help reduce our carbon emissions.
David • Ideas • 10/08/06 • 0 commentsOn the Border
The fundamental question we ought to face is the legitimacy of protecting our borders at all.
Dad • Ideas • 04/29/06 • 0 commentsBreaking the Spell
Dennett is an atheist who believes religion should be studied as a natural phenomenon.
Dad • Ideas • 04/10/06 • 1 commentsIf I Ruled Sports
NPR's sports commentator allows himself to imagine a world where he is the "benevolent despot" of sports: lower ticket prices, no sports talk radio, and a few other things.
David • Ideas • 12/07/05 • 1 commentsA new contest
So I'm proposing we have a "Best uncommented entry" contest.
Dad • Ideas • 07/30/05 • 6 commentsComputer Train
So we got to wondering: what is a fair fare for train service.
Dad • Ideas/Observations/Puzzles/Questions • 07/24/05 • 5 commentsA New Kind of Science
His "big idea" is that great complexity can come from simplicity.
Dad • Ideas • 02/19/05 • 2 commentsPlanning for Utah
Well, folks, I believe that if we are truly going to have a skiing Christmas this year, it will take...
Kathleen • Ideas/Plans • 11/13/04 • 41 commentsBig Fish
As boring and staid as it sounds, all of my stories have been completely true.
Dad • Connections/Ideas/Observations/Reviews/Stories • 09/09/04 • 6 commentsFamily Get-togethers
We need to do things when we're together, not just sit around.
Patrick • Ideas • 04/13/04 • 6 commentsThe Meaning of Relativity
In other words... the fact that light speed is everywhere the same leads irrefutably to the conclusion that E = mc2.
Dad • Connections/Ideas/Observations/Reviews • 04/07/04 • 0 commentsMeasuring streams
Somebody takes a simplified version of the Bernoulli equation and develops a method for measuring flow in small rivers and streams.
Dad • Ideas • 04/02/04 • 7 commentsTragedy of the Commons
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
Dad • Ideas • 01/20/04 • 2 commentsOven heat
I got to thinking lately about leaving the oven on to heat the kitchen.
Dad • Ideas/Observations/Questions/Recommendations/Suggestions • 12/15/03 • 13 commentsLosing A Church, Keeping The Faith
The title of this post is from Andrew Sullivan’s essay in the New York Times on 10/19. Joe Ross sent...
David • Ideas • 10/28/03 • 1 commentsLosing It
Hey Fam. I haven’t been on the website in quite a while. I just read Pat’s entry “How Low Can...
Kathleen • Ideas • 10/15/03 • 2 commentsUniversal Time
David’s entry got me thinking. You knew it was coming. It was only a matter of, well, time. Let me...
Dad • Ideas • 09/25/03 • 4 commentsThe Golden Ratio
I'm reading the new novel by Dan Brown, _The Da Vinci Code_, which is an adventure mystery about secret codes and secret societies and the powerful people who guard them and seek them.
Dad • Ideas • 09/21/03 • 8 commentsRace: The Power of Illusion
PBS has an amazing website focusing on Race. It’s based on the series, “Race: The Power of Illusion” - a...
David • Ideas • 09/04/03 • 1 commentsKansas and the World
Today, I read a little blurb in the Star Ledger that summarized a Reuters News item that reported on a...
Dad • Ideas • 07/22/03 • 6 commentsRace and Sports
The Wall Street Journal has another interesting article that ties into the debate about race and characteristics. This one mediates...
Patrick • Ideas • 07/20/03 • 0 commentsIs Race Real?
Dad sent me an email with a New York Times article called Is Race Real?. He should have posted it...
Patrick • Ideas • 07/15/03 • 4 commentsNew Category (Vetoed)
There has to be some prominent spot on maddenation for dad quotes, right? well, now we have that spot. it’s...
Dan • Ideas • 06/14/03 • 4 commentsSpontaneous Generation
I was looking up some information on Louis Pasteur today and discovered that he helped put to rest the theory...
Patrick • Ideas • 06/09/03 • 3 commentsHow does it feel?
I’ve just been struck by an interesting idea (at least it seems interesting now) for a New Yorker type humor...
Patrick • Ideas • 04/20/03 • 0 commentsMarch Maddenness
March Madness, and it’s uglier, far crazier, lunatic lost brother, March Maddenness, are about to begin! Lace up your converse...
David • Ideas • 03/17/03 • 2 commentsPost-Spring Break Project
i plan to wear a nametag saying "dan" every day, everywhere i go.
Dan • Ideas • 03/10/03 • 5 commentsMundane Behavior
He talked about a "rapidly expanding genre" that could be lumped together under the rubric "mundane studies."
Dad • Connections/Funnies/Ideas/Recommendations • 03/08/03 • 2 commentsWhy Use This Site
I’ve been thinking about Maddenation’s many uses, and my last entry got me thinking beyond “sharing with the family” though...
Patrick • Ideas • 03/03/03 • 1 commentsnegative information
How about a new category: information you’d be better off not knowing. Today I went to Whippany Park High School...
Dad • Funnies/Ideas/Stuffs • 02/27/03 • 6 commentsA Note about the Site Design
I just went ahead and designed something. I know this seems dictatorial, but I hope you like the design anyway....
Patrick • Ideas • 02/14/03 • 0 comments