http://www.metafilter.com/tags/billbeaty Posts tagged with 'billbeaty' at MetaFilter. Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:26:44 -0800 Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:26:44 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/38060/Water%2Dreally%2Dis%2Dblue%2DWho%2Dknew <a href="http://amasci.com/miscon/miscon.html">Teaching bad science</a> is not something only <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/14880">creationist wingnuts</a> do. The redoubtable <a href="http://amasci.com/">Bill Beaty</a> <a href="http://amasci.com/miscon/miscon4.html#cld">sets us straight</a>. (thanks, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/38026#804307">Laen</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.38060 Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:26:44 -0800 badscience billbeaty creationism science flabdablet http://www.metafilter.com/20432/ One sunny day, <a href="http://www.amasci.com/emotor/bill3.jpg">Bill Beaty</a> was walking through a car park when he noticed a black car that appeared to have a series of interesting <a href="http://www.eskimo.com/~bilb/holo/hood1a.jpg">spots and highlights on its hood</a>. On closer inspection, he also noticed several hand prints which had a curious property: they didn't appear to be on the surface of the paintwork at all but instead <i>looked as though they were floating several inches below the surface</i>. In some cases they even looked like they were floating above the surface. After thinking about this he came to realize that he looking at a kind of holographic effect but this kind of hologram didn't require all <a href="http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/gateway/e/aemj47/stemweb/holog1.htm#a">the usual paraphernalia</a> nor was it caused by light wave interference. <b>It was a kind of holography that could be used to draw pictures in 3D by hand</b>. (More inside...) tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.20432 Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:10:16 -0800 billbeaty holography lagado