Monthly Archives: September 2010
The Scientist’s Operating Manual
As you may know I suggested that we should produce this text as a group. So I thought that I’d add some structure, and use this post to link in existing material as suggested. If you think you’d like to … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Epistemology, General Science, Science
Do not pity progessives
From an article at Truthdig entitled “Do not pity the Democrats” by Chris Hedges, this opening paragraph: There are no longer any major institutions in American society, including the press, the educational system, the financial sector, labor unions, the arts, … Continue reading
Filed under Censorship, Freedom, Journalism, Politics, Sermon
A bridge to nowhere
The title of the head of the Roman Catholic Church is “pontiff”, which means, basically “bridge-builder” (in Latin: pontifex; I gather it’s thought by some that the Roman priests would bless new bridges, and the bishop of Rome inherited the … Continue reading
How scientists think, a book proposal
I’m too busy at the moment to blog, write, think or maintain my personal hygiene, so I thought I’d add content by getting my readers to provide it for me. So I’m going to propose a little project. First, a … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Epistemology, General Science, Science
No Link Out
A lot of religion-based ones today. People with heterodox beliefs are less intelligent. So says Razib, anyway, based on the General Social Survey. The Republican Party is lying to “defend its values”, says Psychology Today blogger Christopher Lane. Religious people … Continue reading
Repo Link
So many links, and so little time (I’m preparing subjects!) Ray Kurzweil responds to PZ Myers’ claim that he doesn’t understand the brain, by showing that he doesn’t understand biology. Why Uner-Tan Syndrome is not evidence for evolution, again. That’s … Continue reading
9/11
They hated our freedoms, so we instituted warrantless wiretapping, electronic surveillance and denied habeus corpus. They hated our lack of religious control, so we redoubled our efforts to make discussing religion a crime, and to impose particular religious values on … Continue reading
If only he had used his science for niceness, instead of evil
In the Great Tone Debate, it seems to me that we have been overlooking some of the crucial elements of mixed strategies. Something that works in one case may not work in another, and so general arguments that one should … Continue reading
Filed under Education, General Science, Pop culture
George C. Williams dies
Few evolutionary biologists have had the impact within and without their field as has George Williams, who died this week. His groundbreaking Adaptation and Natural Selection in 1966 set off the debate over levels of selection, the ubiquity of natural … Continue reading
Filed under Biology, Evolution, Philosophy, Science
