The weekend in crazy 23 Aug 2009 See the One Hour Parking Show. And the Washington Post… Humor Politics
Humor A cactus wearing a hat, and Jesus swordfighting 5 Apr 2010 You have undoubtedly read this already, because I am the last guy to find out about these things, but this is the exchange I wish I could have had with my kids’ school chaplain… [via Ed Yong’s tweets @edyong209] Read More
Chocosophy Zombies and chocolate: what it is like to eat a block 17 Jul 20126 Feb 2013 Zombies are very much in the news lately. People are using them as a way to teach science. However, long before the scientists caught up with the trends, philosophy had been discussing zombies after the question of whether there are philosophical zombies (P-zombies) was raised by Saul Kripke in 1972,… Read More
Evolution The Essentialism Story 22 Aug 2007 Historian Mary P. Winsor published recently (2006b, in the December 2006 edition, but it just came out) a paper discussing how the Essentialism Story was constructed by Arthur Cain, Ernst Mayr, and David Hull. The Essentialism Story is the claim that before Darwin systematists and biologists in general treated natural… Read More