Posts Tagged with ‘Science’
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Stephen Pinker – Getting Better all the Time?
14 Mar 2018Stephen Pinker, Harvard savant and current leader in the Candide impersonator contest, was up to his usual tricks at the…
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How War Began – Way Back Then
04 May 2017Why do we do it, so often, with such relish? Go to war, that is. Is it locked into our…
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A Matter of Degrees
21 Apr 2016These are notes I took while reading Gino Segre’s A Matter of Degrees (2002) when it first came out. This…
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The Dawn of Humanity: Science at Work
30 Sep 2015The find of an extraordinary number of early hominid bones and subsequent naming of a new species — —homo naledi…
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“The Imitation Game” Could Be A Better Imitation
22 Dec 2014There’s an interesting irony to the title of the new movie about Alan Turing and the breaking of the German…
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Bird Life — The Thing With Feathers
15 Dec 2014It’s not all war, all the time on this blog. I do take breaks. Last month it was for a…
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Particle Fever – A Movie to See
20 Aug 2014Stepping completely away from WW I (see all the postings below) or other day-to-day concerns, I spent a wonderful 90…
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Race is Not a Useful Concept
20 Jan 2014The 2014 Annual Question at Edge.Org, surely a site you should check in with periodically, is “What Scientific Idea is…
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Power: Decentralized and Centralizing All In One Net
08 Jul 2013We had the good fortune to wander into a Jason Lanier talk at Book Passages in Corte Madera a few…
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Why Does the World Exist?
07 Jun 2013On a recent 21 day river trip, the Colorado carving down into 1.8 billion year old rock and the stars…
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Darwin: The Mouthpiece of Satan
18 Aug 2012Now here’s a book I have to read — Rebecca Stott’s new book about Darwin, and it’s not the first, …
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Bioluminescence Flashes to the Rescue
16 Jan 2012Very cool article a couple of weeks back in the NY Times about Laura Widder, a famed marine biologist, who…
