Monthly Archives: June 2010
Your favourite Australian science blogger
National Science Week 2010 is an Australian government initiative, and they’re holding a “nominate your favourite Australian Science Blogger” comp at The Big Blog Theory. Now I would never tell anyone who to nominate, but get over there are mention … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, Science
Big Links in Little China
Charles Wolfe has a couple of very interesting papers up in PhilSci Archive: Do organisms have an ontological status? considers how the notion of an organism has developed since it was invented in French in the mid-18th century. Why was … Continue reading
An American Werelink in London
Reviewer 2 must be stopped! Alexandre Girault, a maverick taxonomist. Various “Religious Authorities” discuss whether evolution and faith are compatible. The only two who say no are the biblical literalist and the imam, both of whom strawman evolutionary theory. The … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Evolution, History, Humor, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Species and systematics
A Link called Wanda
Lots of linky goodness today. That panel discussion that anti-accomoodationists were unhappy about is well described and lightly commentated upon by Tom Paine’s Ghost. Meanwhile, You’re Not Helping gets stuck into the three main anti-accommodationists in their sights: “The New … Continue reading
Filed under Censorship, General Science, Philosophy, Religion, Science
Favourite Terry Pratchett Discworld novels
This popped up on alt.fan.pratchett (yeah, I know, I’m Avoiding Work), so of course I had to. Feel free to disagree, although anyone who dislike Pratchett and the Holy Discworld Scriptures is a lost cause and should not be replied … Continue reading
Homology
In a recent Nature, R. John Ellis, author of How Science Works, takes exception to Eugenie Scott’s review and says this about her use of “homology”: The word was invented in 1843 by anatomist Richard Owen to mean “the same … Continue reading
Filed under Evolution, Philosophy, Science, Species and systematics, Systematics
Dirty Linking
How to apply to graduate school in the US and UK, written for Australian students, by Alison Fernandes. The NHM is making “pre-emptive” cuts of entire departments without consultation to save money. Via Richard Grant. This, shortly after the House … Continue reading
Filed under Links, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science
