Monthly Archives, February 2009

It's Charlie D's birthday, so I thought it fitting (pun intended) to do a quick review of the wonders of evolution. There's been a lot of mud-slinging in the past 150 years, and one cannot escape the irony that evolutionary theory itself is involved in the very struggle for survival that it attempts to explain. And of course, understanding why religions fear and denounce evolution can be explained by evolution. Now that's a theory! Let's have a look at some of the finer points and what they mean for you.  Evolution takes place on the gene level None of this "survival of the fittest". It is n...

"Money is what makes a man not funny". Just saw Niall Ferguson interviewed on the Colbert Report. He says "anything can be money". True that. But I'd like to clarify what money is. Money is energy. If that sounds a little "New Age", forgive me. I'll give it legs. Wait. Let me stop real quick to eat a hand-full of nuts. ...2 minutes later. Ah, that's better. You see, I can't think straight if I'm too hungry. The little mouse in the wheel in my brain doesn't have enough energy to run. So I need to eat - recharge the batteries with food. And food, is of course, energy. Not just "converted to ener...