Huh? What about it?
Well, for starters - how come there is a whole passel of laws relating to genetic discrimination, basically in the nature of “you can’t do it”, but there isn’t a single law regarding memetic discrimination?
Not only does it exist in fact, it’s vicious - if you are carrying the wrong [...]

As a kid, I read a book by George Gamow, entitled “1, 2, 3… Infinity” - it was written (I think) sometime in the 40’s, and I found it on the book-rack at the Bleriot PX in Paris, and took it to summer camp at La Rochelle with me. Even then, I had gotten into [...]

Of course you don’t. But… do you think it makes a damn what you think or what you want? If you’re looking at the TOC on the Daily Question’s Front Page, click on Read More to see this picture, otherwise you won’t know what the hell we’re talking about here. The picture is of a [...]

“Homeland Security” were run by SCOTS???
I mean, suppose you found out that the Head guy and the majority of his top-level chiefs were all actually citizens of SCOTLAND??? Would that concern you? I know it would sure as hell concern me… even if it turned out that they all claimed to be “dual” citizens, of [...]

Here is a really interesting tool, called JPL Small-Body Database Browser - I think I wrote about it somewhere else, but it may have been an email.
Bring this thing up and try several different comet and asteroid names and check out the orbits. Of particular interest will be Encke, Biela, Hermes, Apophis. Come back with [...]

“The scientists of today have substituted mathematics for experiments and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a mathematical structure which has no relation to reality. They are metaphysicians rather than scientists.”
– Nikola Tesla… who demonstrated a radio-controlled model steamboat
in Madison Square Garden in 1898 … who invented AC electric generation [...]

Here’s a quotation. At the bottom is the attribution.
“In our dream, we have limitless resources, and
the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand.
The present educational conventions fade from our minds; and,
unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and
responsive folk.
We shall not try to make these [...]

True or False? Discuss.
“Any group of people that can sit down and discuss the Iraq War as
though it were anything other than a War Crime of the highest order, or
debate whether or not waterboarding is torture, or whether or not
torture is acceptable in this or that situation, has lost not only
their moral compass, but their [...]

The Dark Ages : Were They Darker Than We Imagined?
There is a good bit of evidence that Earth has been visited many times over the past few thousands of years, not by Space Aliens, but by Space Objects.
For some time we have been lead to believe - and have believed - that nothing more worrisome [...]