http://www.scicha.org/blog thinking aloud on politics, science and their interface, art Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:01:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About a year ago I moved from blogger to wordpress. An improvement, no doubt. But in the last months, and after several attacks to this blog, where relevant posts where deleted into oblivium, I have decided to change, again, the platform of my blog. So from now on this page ... http://www.scicha.org/blog/?p=70    Back in the seventies we were shocked by the Rome report. Population growth and over-consumption will put oil and food prices beyond anybodies’ reach. Then in the eighties we look to the sky, and we could almost see the ozone hole that was growing and bringing cancer for us all. ... http://www.scicha.org/blog/?p=69  Sometimes it is well to think before implementing policy:    Drunk driving after the passage of smoking bans in barsJournal of Public Economics 92:1288-1305  Scott Adams and Chad Cotti   Using geographic variation in local and state smoke-free bar laws in the US, we observe an increase in fatal accidents involving alcohol following bans on ... http://www.scicha.org/blog/?p=59   Islamist Video Responds to Dutch Film And War on Terror  http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-dutch-islamists.html  http://www.scicha.org/blog/?p=58 There is a while since I post here, since I am still thinking what to do with this blog in the time to come. Now via-via I read this, and an overview of Planeetgroenlinks tells me that what follows is yet unknown, so here. The link, and what is there ... http://www.scicha.org/blog/?p=57  Beste mensenGisteren was de plenaire bijeenkomst van het toekomstproject. Wij hebben zo’n plenaire bijeenkomst gehad ongeveer een jaar geleden, en misschien zullen we er nog een hebben voor het project is afgelopen. Deze dag hebben wij de status van de drie panels bekeken en bediscussieerd. Het was een informatieve dag, ... http://www.scicha.org/blog/?p=56 Yesterday GL-Utrecht had an ALV. Around 20:00 it was declared open, given that the needed tools were made available.       Important to say, some people was preparing their speeches form long before.  The first event of the night was an important exchange of functions: Barry stop as treasurer and got involved in the next commission ... http://www.scicha.org/blog/?p=55   More years that I want to remember have passed since few of my friends could gather into an empty house, with a functioning VCR and a crappy television, to watch the oral gymnastics of Linda Lovelace. Not much remains in my memory, after other films stamped their own close ups ... http://www.scicha.org/blog/?p=54 Click here and get a pdf version of the document that the migration workgroup of the European Green Party (EGP) wrote along past weeks.   The history of this document is that since Groenlinks wrote her position paper on migration, back in 2004, we have been asking the EGP to follow suit. We ... http://www.scicha.org/blog/?p=53   ¿Se apropia la gente de la ciudad, o se apropia la ciudad de la gente? Por una vez empezar con un dilema, aun cuando este peligrosamente cercano a una de esas inteligentes preguntas que abren paso a la inteligente mentalidad del escritor, cuando inteligentemente no se decide y dice “ambos” ... http://www.scicha.org/blog/?p=52