What makes scientists laugh? 17 Jun 2008 Well, chickens… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk] HT Darren Naish Humor
Epistemology The Philosophers' Menu 4 May 2010 The Philosophers’ Menu Presuppositions. Kantelope Assorted carnaps Pareto soup Hart-boyled eggs with a rescher of bacon Major Premises Jugged hare, with milled popper Skinnered peacocke, with nashed paretos Plato’ the Day Humeburger, with gibbard gravy Frankfurts and schauer kraut Bass van frassen [sic] Nagels and lockes Frege legs with russell… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design On the lateral transfer post 2 Apr 2009 Well yes it was a joke. But it was based on the inappropriate manner in which the well-known work on lateral transfer was reported by New Scientist as showing that Darwin was wrong. That genes occasionally cross over taxonomic borders among single celled organisms by transduction (viral exchange), conjugation (sharing… Read More
How many of those 68,700 were free range? It is a little hard to tell what the distribution is on the chart.
I’ve got the paper this talk is based on somewhere. I do wonder what the referee reports said, though.
I’ve got the paper this talk is based on somewhere. I do wonder what the referee reports said, though.
I’ve got the paper this talk is based on somewhere. I do wonder what the referee reports said, though.
I’ve got the paper this talk is based on somewhere. I do wonder what the referee reports said, though.
I’ve got the paper this talk is based on somewhere. I do wonder what the referee reports said, though.
If you’ll forgive the tangential OT here… I was looking for an AIR (?) article the other day, and my vague recollection was that it was mocking the kind of boilerplate “directions for further research” summary that typically closes academic papers. The text has something along the lines of “No further research on this topic should be attempted, ever.”. My google-fu is evidently weak, as I can’t find the citation. Does this ring any bells/URLs with anyone?
If you’ll forgive the tangential OT here… I was looking for an AIR (?) article the other day, and my vague recollection was that it was mocking the kind of boilerplate “directions for further research” summary that typically closes academic papers. The text has something along the lines of “No further research on this topic should be attempted, ever.”. My google-fu is evidently weak, as I can’t find the citation. Does this ring any bells/URLs with anyone?