Albert and Carroll on bloggingheads.tv 21 Jun 2008 Philosopher David Albert and physicist Sean Carroll* will be doing a Bloggingheads.tv spot like the one Paul Myeahs and I did recently. I’ll add the direct URL when it comes online. Update: The spot is here. In particular note the segment on how Albert got suckered by the What the Bleep Do We Know? filmmakers (shades of Expelled. Is this s trend in science denial documentary making in the US?). * Not the biology Sean Carroll, the physicist Sean Carroll. General Science
General Science What philosophy of science and “postmodernism” have in common 28 Jul 2008 Lately there has been a rediscovery on the blogia of C. P. Snow’s Two Cultures – which initially was the divide between those who understood the Second Law of Thermodynamics and those who don’t, but is now, it appears, between those who know math and those who don’t, and the… Read More
Evolution On the “Darwin Year” 1 Jul 2008 Readers may be somewhat surprised that Evolving Thoughts hasn’t made much of the Darwin bicentennial and the Origin sesquicentennial so far. Well, I haven’t needed to, given the number of other folk making hay from this. In particular I recommend Carl Zimmer’s piece, over at his new digs with Discover… Read More
General Science Watch Wilkins from Space 14 Dec 2008 The Wilkins Ice Shelf, of course. The European Space Agency has a “satcam” up for you to see how it’s going. Read More