I am a paleontologist 3 Sep 2009 By “They Might be Giants”: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ8rblUtEXA&hl=en&fs=1&] Evolution Humor Pop culture Science
Administrative Empirical Perspectives 8 May 20128 May 2012 Jim Goetz, frequent commenter here, has started up what looks to be a physics and science blog at Empirical Perspectives. Go visit and make rude comments. Read More
Epistemology Disambiguating the Theory-Dependence of Observation thesis (TDOT) 16 Jun 2011 For the past half century it has been largely agreed that one cannot observe without prior theory. This is rarely explicated, however, and there seems to be some ambiguity in the claims made. So I will do a rough taxonomy of the TDOT. When N. R. Hanson introduced the claim… Read More
Chocosophy Chocoholism 14 Jul 20126 Feb 2013 Who put the holism into chocoholism? Why, I did. Here’s why: As every First Philosopher has known since at least the fall of the Roman Empire, the universe is composed of four contrarieties. This is a fancy way of saying that there are four things that form opposites. This view… Read More
That’s a bit of poetic license: they don’t use shovels. I have seen this (Chris Nedin on a shale cliff).
I have cousins with young children, but since I am clueless, I don’t know what age group this stuff is appropriate for. Help, please. I like it, but am saving my quatloos for the new Beatles stuff.