I love it when reality interferes with crazy. This cool article and podcast comes from Mother Jones. The book that serves as the foundation for this piece is Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. This Fish Crawled Out of the Water…and Into Creationists’ Nightmares Some 375 … Read more
Nice talk from Cassandra Vieten, CEO and President of the Institute for Noetic Sciences, on the need for fearlessness in scientists at the “frontier of science,” the “investigation of consciousness.” This talk was given at the Science and Nonduality Conference. Fearless Science – Cassandra Vieten Published on Feb 6, 2014 The frontier of science is … Read more
This is too good not to share. As I read this, the word “whack-a-doodle” popped into my mind. Now why could that be? Nearly 50% in US Believe in Medical Conspiracy Theories By Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer | March 17, 2014 About half of Americans agree with at least one medical conspiracy theory, a new … Read more
From Bookforum‘s Omnivore blog, once again, another cool collection of links, this time exploring the terrain between science, pseudo-science, and parapsychology (among other things). Between science and pseudo-science Mar 14 20149:00AM Jacob Glazier (Glazier): A Phenomenological Evolution of Parapsychology’s Philosophy of Science. William Eamon (NMSU): Astrology and Society. James Lindgren (Northwestern): Who Believes that Astrology … Read more
If you, like me, did not see the first episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos reboot (and not having tv, there was no way for me to watch it live), Hulu has made it available for free to those in the United States (sorry to the rest of 6.7 billion people on the Earth). Watch … Read more
When it comes to the question of the importance and relevance of philosophy, I’m not sure whether Lawrence Krauss just loves the attention of being polemic, doesn’t get just how narrow-minded and simplistic his beliefs are, doesn’t realize he’s committing some major category mistakes and some basic logical fallacies that a first-year philosophy student would … Read more
I may not be able to blog this week, since I’m going to be spending some quality time with my family, so I’m leaving you dear readers with a fascinating documentary. We’ve seen in multiple cases before the intricacies of various animals. What’s different about today’s documentary is that it showcases the interesting and intricate … Read more
A few days ago we saw that Joe the Plumber (representing the view of thousands or millions of Americans) prefers the Bible to science books because science books go through constant revisions while the Bible contains eternal, unchanging truth. Of course, Joe the Plumber and company probably don’t realize that, over the last few thousands … Read more
The art and science of formal classification owes its origin to the great philosopher Aristotle, who conceived of a conceptual tree whose trunk and branches denote different divisions of ontology, hierarchies of being, logical and natural relations, etc. This tree metaphor became ubiquitous until very recently. It’s been used to map historical and genealogical changes … Read more
If you are a Republican, you’re probably not all that thrilled with your presidential candidate Mitt Romney, what with more flip-flopping on political issues than a patient with multiple-personality disorder on meth. It looks like this guy will say anything for votes. But if you’re concerned about all the inconsistencies, fear not. The Onion reports … Read more