Academe Jobs for Philosophers and PhilJobs to merge! 29 Jun 2013 For non American graduates or those too poor to subscribe to the American Philosophical Association, the publication Jobs for Philosophers has been hard to access. David Chalmers and David Bourget established a free alternative, PhilJobs. Now the two are to merge, giving one authoritative and comprehensive location for philosophy jobs. I… Read More
Philosophy I will not read Dan Brown’s latest 17 Sep 2009 He’s a pap writer. Nicely chewed and digested screenplays for filming. Nothing deep, nothing that might stretch a reader. Obvious plot turns. So the reviewer at First Post UK suggests some other reading. I add this: I am surprised that the reviewer did not suggest some Umberto Eco novels. I… Read More
This explains pretty much every single “OMG WE JUST SOLVED BIOLOGY!!1!” paper ever found in physics journals… *cringe* (If I recall, T Ryan Gregory is accumulating quite the collection of “revolutionary” genome papers he finds in physics journals. So revolutionary that no lowly biologist can understand as much as the basic thesis of the paper…)
Reminds me of Fred Hoyle’s rediscovery of population genetics, apparently unaware that it had already happened. And of course his discovery that Archaeopteryx was a hoax. “Most popular Tested Marketing auctions”? Is that a form of spam I have not previously encountered?
There is a form of trackback spamming becoming popular. Mostly I block it via Askimet, but some creeps through.
http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2010/09/prolate-spheroids.html OT, I really like the “how scientists think” idea. My alter ego may have to send you something.