thought experiment

just imagine if there was no water on the planet

what would be bathe with? what would hydrate us? WHAT?????????????

The lost comedy stylings of Palin & McCain

A comedy thought experiment: You've gotta admit, they make it look so easy. Too easy. But they were doing television sketch comedy before SNL and Mad TV and Fox News rediscovered them. Now, as...

Thought Experiment o' the Day

PixelJunk Eden Impressions

ProsFun “Fun” is such a vague term to use, but I can’t think of a more appropriate word to describe this game. I was worried that this game would be be more of an abstract thought...

Creating a Mortgage Fraud Law with Some Bite - A Thought Experiment

I was just reading an article about how Mortgage Fraud is now a specific crime in Missouri, but couldn’t help but think to myself whether or not this law goes far enough. While I haven’t...

Martian Headsets

You’re about to see the mother of all flamewars on internet groups where web developers hang out. It’ll make the Battle of Stalingrad look like that time your sister-in-law stormed out of afternoon...

Do Tall Kids Need Their Own Schools?

This New York Times Magazine piece on single-sex education appears to be a long, disturbing profile of a gender-obsessed quack drawing wildly improbable conclusions from various neurological...

Defending Innovative Practice Models

DB asks those knee-jerking nay-sayers to stop and ask themselves why would they object to a win-win model for patients and physicians.I urge these authors and their ideological colleagues to look...

Defending Innovation Practice Models

DB asks those knee-jerking nay-sayers to stop and ask themselves why would they object to a win-win model for patients and physicians.I urge these authors and their ideological colleagues to look...

Online health information

Jay Parkinson follows up the controversy with a thought experiment.

Mysterious Ways

I’m getting kind of sick of being told that god works in mysterious ways. Usually after some horrible tragedy that can’t otherwise be explained by the religious world-view. You know, it’s just...