Why agnostics don’t have holidays 6 Aug 2010 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bp2Eqrvuis&feature=player_embedded] Courtesy of Leiter Epistemology Humor Philosophy Religion
Humor Civil insolence 22 Jan 2010 I am vaguely amused and slightly disgusted that the issue over which I left Science Blogs is still going. Henry Gee writes of it at the recent ScienceOnline2010 meet. I was mentioned in despatches, so I replied thus: The reason I left Science Blogs was in very large part because… Read More
Education On journals and citation styles 31 Oct 2009 We live, you might have noticed, in an electronic age, right? So why, for heaven’s sake, don’t journals provide either a named Endnote or similar style for their journals? Springer in particular are very bad at this – they give relatively vague and ambiguous instructions via examples, but fail to… Read More
Religion The different epistemologies of science and religion 7 Apr 2008 While it’s always nice to see a scientists step up to argue that intelligent design or creationism ought not to be taught as science because they aren’t science, this worries me somewhat: Scientists have failed to explain the limits of science, Peshkin said. Science deals in what can be observed… Read More
Well, Christmas is a mish-mash of Saturnalia and Germanic pagan symbolism (and Jesus I guess). But for all the agnostic academics…… Cogito Ergo Summer
You go to other people’s homes for holidays. If they pray at any time during the festivities, you think about what’s on TV the next day or compose a shopping list (hmm, Tide, bread, milk, Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems magazine) or judge everyone’s clothing and haircuts (cousin Elvis really needs a new outfit).