Launching Species 14 Feb 201827 Feb 2019 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder It’s out! Get it here. Hardback and Ebook. Administrative Science Species and systematics Species concept
Humor The Simpsons on taxonomy 18 Mar 2009 Homer: “Oh, I just love it here! So many things, and so many things of each thing!” From here (go look!) via here. Read More
Cognition Even more videos by Adam Ford 15 Sep 201415 Sep 2014 Adam has caught up with the remainder of his interviews with me and put them on Facebook. Once more I remind viewers this was entirely ad hoc and unrehearsed. Late note: I have now added all the videos. Many thanks to Adam. Check out his Youtube feed. Read More
Biology Zimmer's evolving blog post on X-woman 28 Mar 2010 Carl Zimmer has a continually updated blog post on the mtDNA of “X-Woman”, which is being informed by his readers and experts. It’s a useful antidote to hasty and inaccurate reportage in the MSM, done well by a very good journalist. Read More
Dear John, Now that the comic strip SMBC has convinced me that qualia don’t exist, I realized that pain is a qualia. There is a problem because the usual refutation of solipsism is to drop a brick on the solipsists feet or other painful operation. This doesn’t work logically because the solipsist will state that he or she or whatever has no control over the alters. Anyway enjoy you last life as much as you can. Perhaps listen to F. J. Haydn’s String Quartets, they have been making me much happier and sadder, IOW alive. Yes, I’m Walter from TO, lost track of you. The group is just little fun without you.