I only have spotty internet access (from my GF’s wireless), so I cannot do great and meaningful posts right now. So, I will do what all the cool kids are doing, and post my best for the year, or rather, my better ones. Below the fold…
January
February
Myths 2: The origin of species
Myth 3: Darwin was a Lamarckian
Myth 4: Darwin was a gradualist
Myth 5: Darwin thought evolution relied on accidents and chance
March
Myth 6: Darwin thought everything was due to natural selection
Myth 7: Darwin thought that Australian aborigines were closer to apes than to Europeans
Blumenbach on the unity of the human species, and on species
April
New work on lateral transfer shows that Darwin was wrong
May
Linnaeus on evolution by hybridism
Is religious cognition adaptive?
June
A Code of Conduct for Effective Rational Discussion [Stolen, but useful]
Cultural evolution and population density
Quetelet and the origin of statistical and population thinking
Linnaeus: the founder of databases
Apes and evolution in the news
The relation between physics and biology
July
On bullying at school, and reunions
August
Dreams of memes and replicator machines
Tautology 2: The problem arises
Tautology 3: The problem spreads
September
October
November
Philosophy as forgetting, and index characters
December
I hope this gives you some pleasure and thoughts over the new year break. Happy new year from me.
Happy New Year and happy Bonding. Sorry our attempts to kidnap you did not work. We are not good at Evil Planning.
As this a purely arbitrary day of the year I don’t regard it as the beginning or end of anything but if you wish to abide by these strange human rituals I will also wish you a happy new what ever.