Monthly Archives: May 2009
Another Seed blog moves on
Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge is now here. Their reasons are given here.
Filed under General Science
How many ways can you make a logical mistake?
A while back I got interested in the various taxonomies of fallacies, such as the Fallacy Files, each giving their own set of names. It set me thinking: how many fallacies are there? From that question it hit me: there … Continue reading
Filed under History, Philosophy, Sermon, trashcan categorial
Christian soldiers
When George Bush Shrubbery announced the invasion of Iraq, he called it a “crusade”, to the chagrin and horror of Muslims inside the US and out. The White House quickly backed down, but it now looks very like that is … Continue reading
Filed under Politics, Race and politics, Religion
Amusing typogarphical errors – 5
It’s been a while since I made a typo that was funny or deep, so I’ll have to make do with this one: Misquotoes: Annoying quotes taken out of context to mean something other than what they originally meant; a … Continue reading
Filed under Humor
Danger! Snark ascending!
Nicola McEldowney, who may or may not be related to a certain cartoonist, functions in a dialectic. Into the RSS reader she goes…
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Filed under Humor
Social networking is not new
John Hawks mentioned a lovely article in the New York Times, interviewing an anthropologist, Pauline Wiessner, who worked with the !Kung bushmen in the Kalahari. She notes that they maintain social relationships across many hundreds (and in her case, when … Continue reading
Filed under Evolution, Social evolution
Plagiarism, citations, and fact checking
Some interesting things in the web lately. One is a new system that purports to find cases of plagiarism. Science reports on the new Dèjá Vu database [news summary here; both behind the Science paywall; check this and this if … Continue reading
Filed under Media, Science, Technology
Burke on Definition
I was discussing whether science or religion can be defined, when I was reminded of this: No lines can be laid down for civil or political wisdom. They are incapable of exact definition. But, though no man can draw a … Continue reading
Filed under Philosophy, Religion, Science
