On the difference between a people and a nation 26 May 202426 May 2024 I have a new and unpaid notice on my substack here: https://johnwilkins.substack.com/p/on-the-difference-between-a-people This is me inviting hate, I guess. History Politics
Censorship I told you so 24 Oct 2008 I told you so 1: High cost of internet filtering and controls stricter than Iran’s, oh and critics bullied. I told you so 2: Terrorism laws unsafe, court rejects charge of breaking laws that did not exist when the “crime” was done Read More
History The best scientific ideas 20 Feb 2010 Over on talk.origins Roger Ebert’s review of The Creation, a film about Darwin’s private life, was mentioned, which starts out Darwin, it is generally agreed, had the most important idea in the history of science. Thinkers had been feeling their way toward it for decades, but it took Darwin to… Read More
Evolution Evolution quotes: Quetelet on populations 12 Jan 201212 Jan 2012 Populations arise imperceptibly; it is only when they have reached a certain degree of development that we begin to think of their existence. This increase is more or less rapid, and it proceeds either from an excess of births over deaths, or from immigrations, or both. In general, it is… Read More