Storing energy in the form of compressed air underground is looking promising. (more…)

I just picked up an audio copy of Past Imperfect on the recommendation of Orson Scott Card. I’m really liking it so far. (more…)

“Canadian MPs will be served seal meat this week in support of hunters fighting an EU ban on products from the animals.”
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“Last month, an offer of seal meat caught by indigenous hunters to the world’s leading economic ministers at a G7 meeting in Iqaluit, 200 miles south of the Arctic circle, sparked outrage.” (link)

My latest post at M* considers the possible ramifications of God being comprehensible. Here is a preview:

Is that a laudable goal, to try to comprehend God? Is God even comprehensible? Please note, I do not mean to ask if God is comprehensible to current mortal man. No, I am asking if God is comprehensible at all.

What does it mean to comprehend something? Try to define that for yourself for a moment to get a feel for the difficulty in doing so.

I would like to propose a fairly simple definition for your consideration. I propose that “to comprehend” something is merely the ability to describe it in terms of the laws the govern it — to algorithmically compress it, if you will. If we comprehend how the world goes around the sun, this surely must mean we understand the laws of physics that cause it to do so. Therefore comprehensibility is equivalent to explanation and description.

I’m so confused.   (more…)

Obama administration encouraged by steady unemployment rate.

Sad thing is, I think no increase in unemployment is relatively good news, too.

Though I worry that the Tea Party folks will be indiscriminate in their cuts when the revolution comes, and Death Star Inc. will suffer.

Bidding war for lost Ipod.   (more…)

So Aslan smites his enemies hip and thigh? I’d read it. Except that’s pretty much already in the Christian Narnia.

It can be overdone.

Over the Falklands.  (more…)

Seems to be the rule with sex offenses. (more…)

Via Hugh Hewitt: (more…)

What kinder prospector allows to the papers as how he’s discovered a gusher? Shoot. That’s moxie.

A new post at M* comparing Mosiah 15:1-5 and D&C 93. Here is a preview:

Do Joseph Smith’s own writings count as counter evidence if he explicitly tells us what he means?

If we take Joseph Smiths’ revelations as historical documents and as “his” writings, then I’d have to say D&C 93 completely undermines the Swedenborgian interpretation of Mosiah 15:1-5 in favor of a Representational Modalism / Divine Investiture interpretation instead.

Temples may have led to cities and then agriculture, and not the other way around.