Danger! Snark ascending! 30 May 200922 Jun 2018 Nicola McEldowney, who may or may not be related to a certain cartoonist, functions in a dialectic. Into the RSS reader she goes… Humor
Humor Dyspepsia and swallowing crap 2 Dec 2007 The Institute for Intellectual Disco Dancing has spun its recent debacle at Minnesota thus: The dyspeptic and ad hominem blogger/biologist Dr. P.Z. Myers was there and brought a Darwinist claque. Note that in passing it is not a fallacy to be ad hominem if the point is relevant to the… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Trashcan: hobs and goblins 10 Dec 2008 I’ve been travelling a little to organise my move to Sydney. Love the building, the department, the people and the project. Not sure about Sydney… so anyway, nothing of substance from me for a while. Here’s a lovely little essay about Newton pissing off most of the European intellectual giants… Read More
Humor Why? The beginnings of philosophy 21 Nov 2008 Phil Plait linked to this guy, Louis CK, on why it’s alright for the world to go back into the dark ages, but I rather like this one, in which it becomes clear that philosophers are, after all, just persistent two year olds: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u2ZsoYWwJA&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1] Read More