Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

Hi there - it's been a busy year and I have been working and keeping out of mischief (sort of).  In July, I started working part-time as a Staff Interpreter at Heritage Park in Gasoline Alley. And I have been working on a couple of more projects - such as my Blog Cole's Notes - and View from the Plateau doing photography, web work, and doing some work on various other things.  For example, I was a volunteer at Calgary Beer fest again, and have been doing some work on the  Strathmore Standard newspaper at Heritage Park.  That was the summer, and now I'm at Gasoline Alley for Christmas. Plus this is the year I got into Twitter , Facebook and Friendfeed , which have been interesting and helping me make new friends and contacts.  One of the new projects I have been doing is a calendar for 2010, which I usually publish and sell.  Not this year,the time ran out before I could get a decent set of photos for a calendar. Well, maybe next year. As well, I h...

View from the Plateau: Trust Science – you do anyway

The ninth commandment is: trust science. By this we mean a true science, based on objectively established criteria and agreed foundations, with a rational methodology and mature criteria of proof — not the multitude of pseudo-sciences which, as we have seen, have marked characteristics which can easily be detected and exposed. Science, properly defined, is an essential part of civilization. To be anti-science is not the mark of a civilized human being, or of a friend of humanity. Given the right safeguards and standards, the progress of science constitutes our best hope for the future, and anyone who denies this proposition is an enemy of science. — Paul Johnson, Enemies of Society (1977) From this article John Derbyshire on National Review Online