Archive for July 16, 2008
What I’ve noticed (almost weekly edition)
The Scientific Activist reminds us of the damage that animal rights extremists do to people’s lives and valuable research. An NY Times article on a disappearing Albanian custom: women take an oath of virginity and are allowed to live as men. Why is there so much anti-American sentiment in the world? Police suck. Rove is […]
Arguments
From The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin. In science, as in politics or love, one can have all the good arguments and still be in the wrong. When it comes down to it, what matters is not whose story is more logical or beautiful, but which leads to the greatest effect.