Category Archives: Pop culture
Evolution in films
OK, I’m giving a lecture on evolution in films. So far I have these: THEM! Godzilla, King of the Monsters King Kong The Time Machine X-Men Fantasia 2001 a space odyssey Mission To Mars Evolution Avatar Ice Age 3 – … Continue reading
Filed under Evolution, Pop culture
Things Glenn Beck has never seen
A DNA sequence Comparative anatomical diagrams Behavioural studies of apes and humans compared Psychological studies of apes and human children Fossils A science book His arse
Filed under Evolution, Humor, Pop culture
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
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
The Evil Links I
Why are there more Christian congregations where there is more crime? On Quasispecies; Abbie notes an open source paper in FEBS on viral quasispecies. I worry that it fails to attend to the work of Sergey Gavrilets on holey landscapes, … Continue reading
Pundit parody
Australia doesn’t have lunatics of the calibre of the white supremacist Glenn Beck, at least, not on the media, but we have sufficient punditry to fuel a small nation all right. Idiots like Alan Jones, who incited a racial riot, … Continue reading
Filed under Australian stuff, Journalism, Media, Politics, Pop culture, Technology
Creation, a personal reflection on the movie
I just saw the movie Creation, with Paul Bettany as Darwin and Jennifer Connelly (Bettany’s real life wife) as Emma Darwin. And I am very pleasantly surprised how well it worked as a film, as well as how effectively it … Continue reading
Filed under Evolution, History, Media, Pop culture
The Return of the Linking Dead
Can philosophers use the iPad? Hell, yes. Of course, we would say that, wouldn’t we? Also, check out this TeX for Philosophy site. Is this when journalism lost its moral compass? When it stopped calling torture “torture”? Well, not really, … Continue reading
Filed under Biology, Epistemology, General Science, History, Journalism, Links, Philosophy, Pop culture, Science
