Penises, criminals and me 2 Aug 20112 Aug 2011 It’s all there at Darwin Eats Cake Update and elaboration: I asked Jon Wilkins’ (no recent relation) comic creation Guillame the Adaptationist Goat to explain why we make weird faces when orgasming. Lest my readers think I have done an empirical study on this, alas no. I took it from this scene [at 5:18] in Dogma, where the Voice of God, the Metatron, played with the usual panache by Alan Rickman, notes that the angels laugh with God when humans make orgasm faces. It seemed that if there was a creationist account, there had to be an evolutionary psychology account. Here are all three comics that resulted. Jon is a great story teller… Humor
Humor Graphical Philosophy 4 Jul 20114 Jul 2011 Wittgenstein wrote: Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and heretic. [On Certainty §611] Or, in a GIF: From Patton’s Argument Clinic. I think there’s a need for the entire corpus of modern philosophy to be done… Read More
Administrative In England’s green and wet land 25 Jul 2007 So, I finally have access to the internet. For the past few days I’ve been either in London, on planes, trains or in Exeter, where I am now for the ISHPSSB biennial conference of philosophers and historians (and some sociologists) of science. In London I walked myself silly (getting the… Read More
But how do you know you make odd faces when you orgasm? Logically, either you use a mirror or you don’t. If you don’t use a mirror, then you won’t see the odd face. If you use a mirror, then you won’t get the orgasm. Is it something to do with the way people laugh?
Who says if you use a mirror that you won’t get your orgasm? Or your funny face? Bunk intel on that one. Mirrors are not on closet doors just to ensure a tidy appearance.