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Followup: The artful dodger

In the previous post, I took Philosopher of Science Elliott Sober to task for a relatively simple question that he’s been flogging at the expense of huge amounts of oxygen and electrons – and at the same time, ripped philosophy in general. I’ll be honest and say that I would really like someone to [...]

Final answers aren’t

Over at EvolutionBlog and Why Evolution Is True, Drs. Rosenhouse and Coyne have taken down the same philosophical question posed by Dr. Elliot Sober, to wit: Can science establish that genetic mutations are not caused by god?

It is questions like this that have guided my abiding dislike of philosophy, since a tremendous amount [...]

… and part two

There are actually two themes I’m continuing here. The first is the limits of our knowledge, which is a “half-empty” perspective; there’s a better way of expressing it, which we’ll get to in a moment. The second theme being continued here is special efforts made by scientists to communicate their work to the general [...]

Back atcha

Last year, I did a post on macro photography that featured some detail pics of a Giant Water Bug, also called an Electric Light Bug but better known by the scientific name Belostoma flumineum. This post totally rocked the internet, and by that I mean, was just another post on just another blog, probably [...]

And another thing…

First off, even if you don’t like spiders, you really need to check out this video, an extremely well done collection of jumping spider behaviors. This comes courtesy of The Dragonfly Woman. Even though I’m embedding it here, I encourage you to go to the source for all of the details about it. While [...]

I’m late! I’m late!

Damn, meant to post this to go up today, and forgot all about it. No, I’m not going to obsess over this blog to the point where I’m putting reminders on personal calendars, and my little “one year ago” plugin on the side failed to work since Easter falls on different days each year. [...]

Redirect

Okay, I will only accept you being here if you’ve already seen Friendly Atheist’s Reason Rally recap. If not, hie thee hence right now! Even if you think it’s a diabolical attempt to seduce people to the dark side, treat it as a challenge and tell me how many flaws you can find. I’ll [...]

If you can read this…

First off, your assignment for today: read the post found at The Diamond In The Window – it shouldn’t take five minutes. I’ll wait here and chase the cat off the keyboard.

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Done? Good. That was a great example of how too many school systems within the US have completely lost sight of [...]

Spoke too soon, perhaps

In yesterday’s ‘Too cool’ installment, I lamented not being able to illustrate the topic with my own images, and suspected I’d have no opportunity to do so. This was an abject ploy to make you feel sorry for me.

However, I soon became wracked with guilt over such blatant manipulations. Not to mention that, [...]

Too cool, part 13: I’m a spider, raargh!

Since I have yet to obtain any images illustrating this (and because there may not even be examples of such within this country, I may not ever, sniff,) I refer you to Alex Wild of Myrmecos fame, guest-blogging on Scientific American’s site, for his post on “The fly that banks on arachnophobia.”

If you [...]

Followup: The artful dodger

Final answers aren’t

… and part two

Back atcha

And another thing…

I’m late! I’m late!

Redirect

If you can read this…

Spoke too soon, perhaps

Too cool, part 13: I’m a spider, raargh!

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