Category Archives: Administrative

Stuff about me and the blog itself.

Empirical Perspectives

Jim Goetz, frequent commenter here, has started up what looks to be a physics and science blog at Empirical Perspectives. Go visit and make rude comments.

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Get your Evolution Carnival posts in soon!

There’s only a week left to submit to the next Carnival of Evolution hosted here! Hop to it folks, or I’ll have to link to my own posts, and nobody wants that.

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The dangers of walking

I have long said that exercise is dangerous: that 100% of all those I know who are physically active injure themselves. But I never expected that just frigging walking could be so problematic and fraught with danger! I was on … Continue reading

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The ET Fund update

I continue to be humbled and my ego stroked by contributors to the Save ET from Extinction fund. I thought that it would be a good idea to maintain a list of contributors. So this is a post that will … Continue reading

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Marking time…

It’s been a busy week (and a painful one: I advise my students to avoiding being old if they can and gout is one reason why – right: gout. This past fortnight has been extremely unpleasant). We are in what … Continue reading

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Update – we are still online

This is an update from what one correspondent (Jon Wilkins, no-recent-relative) called my “living will”. I have paid the domain name registration, and also the hosting fees for another year. So ET will remain online for you to read. I … Continue reading

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Evolving Thoughts may shut down for a while

Hi everyone. I am not in a great financial state right now, nor am I in a job that can pay me. This means that I cannot afford the internet or hosting and so I may have to suspend the … Continue reading

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A logical inference, or, on how to submit Carnival of Evolution posts

I could put this into standard logical form, or even argument map it, but I’m too lazy. However, since I’ll be hosting one of these soon, I should post this the way Bjørn Østman sent it to me: Carnival of … Continue reading

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Facebook group for ET

I don’t much like Facebook, especially their privacy failures, but I know it is an important venue for many to follow the blog, so I set up an Evolving Thoughts Facebook Page, and with luck this link will take you … Continue reading

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The year’s substantial posts

So in lieu of doing something useful, here is a list of links to my substantial posts of 2011: General posts, roughly in date order Turtles all the way down: the origins of the myth The undergraduate effect and the … Continue reading

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