Monthly Archives: February 2010
Aristotle on politics and religion
“And further he [the tyrant] must be seen always to be exceptionally zealous as regards religious observances (for people are less afraid of suffering any illegal treatment from men of this sort, if they think that their ruler has religious … Continue reading
Filed under History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Social dominance
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A Better Mousetrap for the Age of Rats by Glen Smith: “American democracy is a better mousetrap. Unfortunately, it was born in the Age of the Rat.” A pair of Bioethics posts linked to by John Hawks: “Sure, they said, … Continue reading
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Filed under Ecology and Biodiversity, Ethics and Moral Philosophy, General Science, Links, Philosophy, Science
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When God is watching – a good summary article on the effects of religion on morality. Also, clean smells improve outlook. A Christian physicist declares the end of Intelligent Design, and the comments are predictable Are mobile phones actually good … Continue reading
Thoughts on the periodic table
Eric Scerri has written the definitive history of Mendele’ev’s periodic table and how it came to be formulated. He also has a paper in which he proposes a new formulation, based on historical considerations of what it was that Mendele’ev … Continue reading
Filed under Basic Concepts, General Science
Pope gets tax-paid visit to UK to denounce equality of gays before the law…
I am glad to see I am not the only person who finds this unconscionable… I hope the Grauniad won’t sue me for reposting their piece below the fold.
