Test post 8 Apr 2010 Nothing to see here. Move along. I’m testing some new features. Do not play Mornington Crescent in the comments. Administrative Philosophy Administrative
Biology Some loose ends – Reductionism and Phylocode 26 Aug 201018 Sep 2017 I’ve been asked in the comments to cover two topics, neither of which I want to discuss at length because they are not easy to cover, and because they aren’t the focus of my rather intense monomania right now. They are: Reductionism and Phylocode. Read More
Book More FAPPery 27 Apr 2010 Another review of What Darwin got wrong, by Kenan Malik, at The Literary Review. The money quote: Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini are no creationists, but ‘outright, card-carrying, signed-up, dyed-in-the-wool, no-holds-barred atheists’. That, however, only makes worse the incoherence of their understanding of Darwinism. There is much that Darwin got wrong, from… Read More
Administrative Ronin Institute for masterless scholars 6 Jan 20136 Jan 2013 As readers may know, I, along with a great many other researchers, have no permanent position, making do with casual work to get by. This is an increasing problem around the world as educational institutions transition from being a public good to a service provider to government and economic goals…. Read More
Whitechapel? WHITECHAPEL?? From Marble Arch? In my day a move like that would have caused unrest. Since we’re clearly not at home to a well controlled elevator: Redbridge. Louis
Oh, very well since we are playing with the limited,and some would say criminal, Australian Pub rules: Totenham Hale
You fools! Don’t you see, Wilkins is trying to get you to play Mornington Crescent in order to divert you from his evil plan to take over the intertubes!
Of course! It’s like Captain Kirk causing a rogue computer to seize by getting it to compute the value of pi. A runaway Mornington Crescent would draw in ever more resources until anything inside the event horizon at Chesham would be sucked irresistibly down a Blackfriars hole.
Nah, if he was really doing that he’d insist on the Whitehead & Russell 1927 rules with the Epimenides variation.
The first rule about Mornington Crescent is that you don’t talk about…….Oh that’s something else, is it?