Podblack Cat 8 May 2008 … is a blogger on the paranormal and skeptical stuff. She has some nice posts on Women and superstition (parts one and two) and Skeptical Books for Children (parts one, two, three and four). Go check them and her out. General Science Social evolution
Social evolution Cultural evolution and population density 5 Jun 2009 Many popularisers of science have made a claim something like this: Human history at last took off around 50000 years ago, at the time of what I have termed our Great Leap Forward. [Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel, p39] and others have asserted that this is due to a… Read More
Epistemology Natural classification and the dynamics of science 6 Aug 201018 Sep 2017 About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not to theorize; and I well remember someone saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel pit and count the pebbles and describe their colours. How odd it is… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Small world 31 Oct 2007 Here is an article in Harvard Magazine on bacteria and other wee beasties that make up the bulk of the living world, that is worth reading. It’s called “The Undiscovered Planet”. Hat tip to Jason Grossman. Read More
Cuttlefish, OM reads your blog! You have hit the big time. There has to be a Philosophers Epic that Cuttlefish can put into verse for you.
Cuttlefish, OM reads your blog! You have hit the big time. There has to be a Philosophers Epic that Cuttlefish can put into verse for you.
Okay – Digital Cuttlefish – who has read my blog from the start – HAS just written a poem for me! Waitaminute – this was written last year and they only wrote a poem for me now. Gah, I am no muse! 🙁 BUT I am horrified to only discover this post, today! So, I guess it’s a belated Valentine’s day present. Big smoochy kisses to John Wilkins and please, come along to the next Australian Skeptics conference! 🙂