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I have learned that part two of the aforementioned PBS series, this one titled Your Inner Reptile, will be airing Wednesday April 16 at 10 PM, on PBS of course. Local listings may vary, but it does seem like they’re running this weekly. You also haven’t missed out if you didn’t get the chance [...] April 14th, 2014 | Tags: Neil Shubin, PBS, Your Inner Fish, Your Inner Monkey, Your Inner Reptile | Category: Nature, Science & Evolution, Too Cool |
 2 commentsI threatened to do this, and after watching I felt more than obligated, so let’s talk about Your Inner Fish, a video program from PBS. This one-hour program by Tangled Bank Studios is hosted by Neil Shubin, a self-described ‘fish anatomist’ from the University of Chicago, and based on the book of the same [...] April 10th, 2014 | Tags: DVD, Neil Shubin, PBS, video, Your Inner Fish, Your Inner Monkey, Your Inner Reptile | Category: Book Review, Science & Evolution |
 Leave a commentDamn, this is what comes from being out of the loop as much as I am. While I never hear about what every chuzzlewit celebrity is up to (which is a major plus,) I also don’t hear about promising new programs in time to give adequate notice. Case in point: Your Inner Fish, airing [...] April 9th, 2014 | Tags: Neil Shubin, PBS, series, Your Inner Fish, Your Inner Monkey, Your Inner Reptile | Category: Critical Thinking, Nature, Science & Evolution, Too Cool |
Leave a commentThat’s the best description, though ‘slick’ works pretty well too. Professor Ceiling Cat brought these to my attention: four new short videos from the British Humanist Association, each addressing one of the main philosophical issues of life, if I may be so dramatic; to be more specific, issues that humanism handles a hell of [...] March 21st, 2014 | Tags: British Humanist Association, humanism, Stephen Fry, That's humanism! | Category: Critical Thinking, Science & Evolution |
Leave a commentOut in some states in the western US, places where sparse plants compete with rock and Star Trek villains for attention, there can be found a thin grey line between sedimentary layers. This line, an abrupt change in the composition of the sandwiching rock above and below, is a visible remnant of one of [...] March 9th, 2014 | Tags: Chicxulub, Deccan Traps, K-Pg boundary, KT boundary | Category: Nature, Reference, Science & Evolution |
Leave a commentA few years back, there was a topic of discussion in “skeptical circles” (meaning some blogs and forums that featured critical thinking discussions fairly frequently) regarding the lack of female attendees at various skeptical conventions and meetups – most especially, the lack of female speakers. Actually, such discussions may be still be taking place, [...] February 28th, 2014 | Tags: assumptions, jumping to conclusions, misinterpretation, sexism, solid data | Category: Critical Thinking, Reference, Science & Evolution |
Leave a commentThis is another after-effect of the debate I mentioned earlier, and is closely related to the comments I made therein. The image here is one of those shamelessly forwarded, reposted, and unattributed “memes” that can be found everywhere, and I feature it reluctantly because the photos therein are always unattributed and usually lifted without [...] [Believe it or not, this post has sat in draft form in the system since I started it in April 2013 - it never seemed to fit in among other posts that well. So it gets to appear now as a Darwin Day post while photography has hit the winter slump. There's still a [...] I’m skipping a lot of backstory here, because after a lot of typing I realized it doesn’t add anything useful. So, short version: at a recent science-versus-religion debate, some triumphant creationists were invited to pose questions to all those who believe in evolution. I have long ago blocked the site that posted them for [...] If there is one book that I recommend to everybody, regardless, it’s Demon Haunted World, the most efficient, readable, and interesting book to promote critical thinking that I’ve ever come across. But underneath this pursuit lies a curious question: why there is an apparent deficit in critical thinking in the first place. How the [...] |
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