A new argument for scientific realism 11 Sep 2009 Argumentum ab pop… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty33v7UYYbw&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Humor Pop culture
Epistemology Sausages, and science 6 Dec 2009 One should not see, goes the old saw, laws or sausages being made. This is also true of science, for a reason. Before something is published, scientists argue, insult each other, discuss things in casual ways and use unclear jargon and terminology that looks like, to an outsider who is… Read More
General Science More roundup 14 Oct 2008 … those weeds won’t ever go away. The inimitable Siris notes the problem with the myth that the US Electoral College is a restraint upon democracy (when it makes presidential elections possible where previously they weren’t, so how can it be a restraint?). The article in the New Yorker he… Read More
Philosophy Veerryyy interesting, but so sad 17 Sep 2009 Another icon from my youth, Henry Gibson, has died. *sigh* If there is a heaven, I hope he gets a good audience for his poems. Read More
I have no problem at all with “science is real”. But when I am in the midst of a very good (or very bad) dream, all the observation and science sure seems real there too. Will I wake up yet again? What is “real”? Just one of those pesky observer effects, I’m sure. Could be that your life is just a poorly written Philip K. Dick novel.