The origins of fundamentalism 5 Nov 201122 Jun 2018 Feed the Porifera… Evolution Humor Religion Science
Epistemology Darwinian evolution for culture 15 Nov 2009 Following on from my piece about songs and scientists, underverse (Chris Schoen) has taken me to task: … it becomes easy to see one of the flaws in memetic thinking. Changes in “culture” differ from changes in biology in that they are not random; they are directed toward a specific… Read More
Evolution A periodic table of insects? More thoughts on classification 25 Aug 201225 Aug 2012 Seen by Malte Ebach at the XXIV International Conference of Entomology in South Korea: What’s fun about this (to a philosopher of taxonomy) is why a periodic table doesn’t serve to classify taxa in biology like this. Instead we get this: [From here] The answer is that elements are, and… Read More
Biology On abortion 9 Nov 2010 A fertilised fetus is a collection of cells that will, if all goes well, and it doesn’t in a large percentage of cases, become a baby. As much as 70% of all pregnancies may abort in the first 20 weeks, due to genetic or developmental defects. But up until a… Read More
Fundamentalism huh? A true sense of ‘self’ projected universally is called The Observer The essence of Chinese culture is that 1.3 billion people are all the same. The party is The Guardian Is China autistic friendly?