Category Archives: Education
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
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
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
Crowdsourcing question: scientific method book?
I need a recommendation of a short simple book that provides a good, but not simplistic, outline of how it is that scientists reach their conclusions. Failing that, a good paper. Targeted at non-philosophy undergraduate students. I have been looking … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Epistemology, General Science, Philosophy, Science
Dicks, niceness and evil: a rant
The ongoing blogbattle over whether to be nice or a dick skeptic continues. Phil Plait gave a speech suggesting that niceness works better. There was blowback, of course, which he discusses here and here. The Great Tone Debate seems to … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Epistemology, Philosophy, Politics, Pop culture, Rant, Religion, Science, Sermon, Truisms
On non-cohort based education
I’m going to rant for a bit; it’s Sunday here, so my Inner Preacher gets to play. Everyone is decrying the state of education, and how students know less and are unable to think, excel and so forth. Teachers, governments, … Continue reading
Phil Plait destroys the earth
The Bad Astronomer has a TV show! Bad Universe: I hope it gets to Australia before the Big One hits. [Why can't we do a philosophy show like this? Oh, wait...]
Filed under Basic Concepts, Education, General Science, Humor
The "who" thread
I am, as they say in The Home Country, gobsmacked. I expected that I would have a few geeks (I’m a Geek! Say it Loud!) who read me because I was sort of interesting. Instead I find Phuds, scientists, philosophers … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, Education, Humor
The “who” thread
I am, as they say in The Home Country, gobsmacked. I expected that I would have a few geeks (I’m a Geek! Say it Loud!) who read me because I was sort of interesting. Instead I find Phuds, scientists, philosophers … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, Education, Humor
