Posts by sarcozona
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 […]
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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 […]
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Animal behavior
E.O. Wilson in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge: If the religious mythos did not exist in a culture, it would be quickly invented, and in fact it has been everywhere, thousands of times through history. Such inevitability is the mark of instinctual behavior in any species. That is, even when learned, it is guided toward […]