Humor Dennett has heart surgery after an aortic dissection, and gives thanks 28 Nov 2008 … to his doctors. Here. Late Note: Ronan in the comments points out this was in 2006. I think I was sleeping that year… Read More
Epistemology You and me, baby, ain't nothing but mammals 7 Apr 2010 The song of the title of this post is a catchy and highly amusing piece that suggests that if we’re just mammals we should have sex. It’s sort of a low brow version of Andrew Marvell’s To his coy mistress. Instead of Time’s wingéd chariot, we should do what mammals… Read More
Humor The real Olympic performers 24 Aug 200818 Sep 2017 Certain nations who shall remain nameless have been doing a fair bit of skiting about how well they’ve done. So I thought I’d do a bit of number crunching. Of course it isn’t completed (or is it?) but using the Wikipedia population figures and the official medal tally, I plotted… Read More
Just one of many great perhaps. Though the idea that you could account for purposefully, supernaturally, directed miraculous events with statistic analysis, designed to account for the normal occurrences within the natural universe, is kind of peculiar.