Archive for October, 2009
The next step
E.O. Wilson in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge: On the one side, ethics and religion are still too complex for present-day science to explain in depth. On the other, they are far more a product of autonomous evolution than hiterto conceded by most theologians. Science faces in ethics and religion its most interesting and possibly […]
What I’ve Been Listening To
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What I’ve Noticed
Japanese farmers grow the most beautiful apples. The process is incredibly labor intensive, however, and may die out in the next generation or so. Peg Mullen, the Cindy Sheehan of the Vietnam war, died last week. Why aren’t more women philosophers? It’s the same reason most women steer clear of computer science: the large proportion […]
Just a shoe
Survival
Dust storms suck, but could help slow global warming, which is a very very good thing since it’s likely temps will increase more than 7 °F in the next 40 or 50 years. This is an incredible rate of warming – more than 250 times faster than one of the fastest warming periods (that we […]
Science vs. religion
E.O. Wilson in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge: The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another.
What I’ve Noticed
It’s more expensive to be gay. The Straight Girl’s Guide to Sleeping with Chicks. I’m beginning to think straight women don’t actually exist. Mac vs. PC hilarity. Another health insurance company screws over another sick person. Frat boys that aren’t awful human beings. Hooray feminism! Nike resigned from the board of the Chamber of Commerce […]