Well, this is my first article on WordPress ! It is quite strange that after watching the final episode of Season 4 of Doctor Who, I suddenly felt compelled to set up a blog and to write down my thoughts. Now it may seem that it is not such a far fetched idea if I had derived some sort of strong emotion from the episode and need to share this with someone else than my family (none of which find sci-fi appealing). But the fact is that I don’t intend to talk about Doctor Who. It is not the aim of this blog. So this blog has arisen from a quite sudden random craving. Maybe there were subliminal messages in the episode that bolstered me into an unconscious desire to create a blog.
Or maybe it was this video I saw who’s focus was a Hillary Clinton supporter (Will Bower) who, as a consequence of Obama winning the Democrat primaries, had decided to actively discredit Obama in order for McCain to win. Are Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton so fundementally different that a Democrat should prefer to vote for a Republican instead ? I seriously don’t think so. I think this is another case of people voting with their heart rather than their brain. They are so revulsed by the idea that Clinton did not make it through that they will resign voting or worse still, vote for Republicans. Now obviously one can guess where my allegiance lies. However, when I say “worse still vote for Republicans” I meant from a logical point of view. If you have a tendency to vote Democrat, voting Republican is the worse thing you can do for the party. Equally, if you tend to vote Republican, voting Democrat is really not going to help the party. Sometimes the sudden swing of stance is justifiable. After all, you would want what you think is best for the country (or best for you, if you are selfish. We probably all are in our own ways). But, to vote completely out of whack with your ideas and ideals just to seek revenge for not getting exactly what you want is fairly damaging for your party. And quite frankly, it’s stupid. If a good portion of people act in that irrational way, the joint effort ultimetaly becomes a weight on the election and swings it one way or another.
As crazy at it may sound now, I don’t think I initially intended to write that much about the subject of the American election. This blog will not be a political one. In fact you can expect me to go on about Science much more than politics from now on. Because Science is a huge fascinating subject and I’m really far from having that enthusiasm for politics. Like for example, I might talk about the Large Hadron Collider which will be operational in 1 day 21 hours 2 minutes and 50 seconds after I wrote this sentence. That is from http://www.lhcountdown.com/ which is the official site for the countdown. Don’t go complaining if the countdowns increments time instead of decrementing. That’s because they keep pushing the dates of the grand opening back. But seeing the scarce time left, I think this is it. Maybe next week we will find the Higgs Boson…and maybe we won’t. I won’t hide that I am quite excited and so are some of my friends. Isn’t that right Laurence ? Another reason why I just might mention science is that I am currently reading Richard Dawkins everfamous ‘The Selfish Gene’. The title might be confusing if you don’t know what it’s about. I can start by telling you that the focus is on the ‘gene’ not the ’selfish’, so now you can easily guess that Richard Dawkins is not a psychologist but rather a biologist (or more precisely a zoologist), and that his book involves the genome. Evolution is what it is all about. This book explains how species have evolved from simple replicators to the survival machines that we, and other living animals, consitute. It also goes on to explain how all intricacies and outcomes of evolution can emerge from each indivual gene’s selfish need to spread, strongly discrediting ideas like ‘group selection’ that seem now to be easy shortcuts for explaining evolution. As I have now contracted a headache from standing in front of my computer at 3 am, I shall not go into details. You will just have to read the book for yourself. It’s worth your while, I have never read a book so fast than this precise one (to the possible exception of ‘Second Foundation’ by Asimov).
So expect alot of scientific talk from this blog. I might also throw in some controversial pieces of mindflow (I just made up this word…I think) about what I think of awful stuff like Intelligent Design (well you could have predicted that much) and how I so absolutely believe in the Global Warming threat that so many people turn a deaf ear too (for those who were wondering if this interest has recently been nurtured in book form as my interest for evolution has, I shall answer that, yes, the book I was reading before Dawkin’s book is Al Gore’s ‘Earth in the balance’ [for some reason, i'm going through a non-fiction phase right now...]).
Damn, writing a bit of random prose is refreshing…
