General Science Expertise and ignorance 21 Mar 2008 On the one hand you have Jake Young discussing the role of expertise in public debates, concluding that maybe experts shouldn’t expect that information from knowledgeable folk will automatically influence the uneducated. On the other hand, this… Read More
Humor The news just keeps getting better 10 Jun 2009 After learning that we can fly if we just put our minds to it, now comes news that Futurama is back! Must have something to do with Fox realising that in order to get audience, you can’t just bash the single most popular president since Grover Cleveland. Late note: I… Read More
History Irish history of science 18 Sep 2009 The deputy prime minister, or Tanaiste, of Ireland, has made a slight gaffe: She said the IDA would be marketing Ireland as the innovation island — “like Einstein explaining his theory of evolution”. After that, she said that Ireland would win sport like Darwin discovering gravity, and sing in Eurovision… Read More
Um, hang on. does this mean advertisers should be teaching philosohpy, or that philosophers should go into advertising?
This has all sorts of possibilities. Just think about slogans like: Things go better with Kant. Vorsprung durch Tillich Ahhh, Peano! And if Apple released a data-mining app they could call it the iDigger.
John, if you can really make it last two hours, you’re wasting everybody’s time telling us about invalid species concepts.