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February 12, 2012
EvolutionBlog
The Trouble With Theistic Evolution The current issue of The Philosopher's Magazine contains a lengthy interview with philosopher Elliott Sober, a prominent philosopher of biology. Most of the interview focuses on the problem of reconciling evolution and theism, with Sober serving up the standard talking...
February 11, 2012
Dean's Corner
Whitney Houston's Legacy, A Life Too Short Photo source. Such sad news today - Whitney Houston died at the young age of 48. I have always enjoyed, and admired, her soaring soulful voice. What will her legacy be?...
February 10, 2012
Uncertain Principles
Language and Statistics Poll: Define "Vast" Prompted by a number of people using the phrase "vast majority" recently, I wonder where the line between "majority" and "vast majority" is. Thus, a poll: What is the minimum level of support that constitutes a "vast majority" Assume for...
February 9, 2012
Uncertain Principles
Random Note That Wouldn't Bother Normal People In a book that I read recently (either The Cloud Roads or The Serpent Sea-- I finished the first and immediately started the second), as some characters are traveling from one place to another, there's a passing mention that they...
Dean's Corner
Should I Sell my Car for NY Giants Season Tickets? MetLife Stadium: NY Giants vs. Washington Redskins, Dec. 18, 2011 (my own photo.) This may be a sign of football withdrawal syndrome, but the day after the NY Giants won the Super Bowl I was searching for 2012 season...
February 8, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
Modern Neuroscience Verifies a Peircian Idea I know some of you are Piercians, and some of you are interested in Neuroscience. So, without comment I give you this abstract of a recent paper: Past experience provides a rich source of predictive information about the world that could be used to guide...
Aardvarchaeology
17th Century Pastoral Novel "Stratonice" is a pastoral romance set in the age of Alexander the Great.
Uncertain Principles
How to Teach Physics to Your Polish Dog I have a Google alert set up to let me know whenever my name or the title of one of my books turns up in one of the sources they index. This is highly imperfect, sometimes missing interesting articles, and...
February 7, 2012
Uncertain Principles
Reminder: How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog Photoshop Contest A quick reminder: How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog (cover in the left sidebar) will be released at the end of the month. If you'd like to win a signed copy early, though, you can enter our Photoshop contest....
February 6, 2012
Uncertain Principles
Wacky Football Mishap Poll So, my Giants edged out Kate's Patriots again in the Chateau Steelypips Bowl, in a game that was certainly not without its drama. I'm not going to gloat about it, because a couple of different bounces here or there easily...
February 5, 2012
Uncertain Principles
The Best of All Possible (Football) Universes Proving that you can find physics in everything, Sean Carroll points to a strange anomaly in the Super Bowl coin toss: the NFC has won 14 coin tosses in a row. The odds of this happening seem to be vanishingly...
Uncertain Principles
Incredibly Serious Sunday Poll Like many Americans, I'm going to be hugely preoccupied today. Thus, a poll for your blog-like entertainment needs: The Super Bowl is today. Who's going to win? If you choose the last option, please arrange to have contacted me in...
February 2, 2012
Uncertain Principles
How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog: Photoshop Contest It's now officially February, and the release date for How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog is only a few weeks off-- the official release date is Feb. 28. Of course, I've got a copy already: If you would like...
February 1, 2012
Uncertain Principles
Critical Pronunciation Poll I'm using Dava Sobel's Longitude this week in my timekeeping class. The villain of the piece, as it were, is the Reverend Dr. Nevil Maskelyne, who promoted an astronomical method for finding longitude, and played a major role in delaying...
January 28, 2012
Aardvarchaeology
Recent Archaeomags Lots of interesting feature stories lately.
January 27, 2012
Uncertain Principles
It's a Real Book! I was going to write something about the politics of scientific publishing, but instead, I want to focus on what's really important in modern publishing: That's right, I got a couple of early copies of How to Teach Relativity to...
January 25, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
IQ Varies with Context In a very interesting way. As a regular reader of this blog, you know that IQ and similar measures are determined by a number of factors, and for most "normal" (modal?) individuals, one's heritage (genes) is rarely important. Putting it another way, variation across individuals...
EvolutionBlog
Another Round on Adam and Eve Since my little break has turned out to be longer than I anticipated, I fear that my blog muscles have atrophied a bit. So let's start flexing them again by revisiting a familiar topic: Adam and Eve. Over at HuffPo,...
January 24, 2012
Dean's Corner
Super Bowl XLVI NY Giants to New England Patriots: "Stomp You Out!" Photo: :The New York Giants in a December 2008 game against the w:Cincinnati Bengals (Flickr tedkerwin) In 2004, I had a memorable evening dining with NY Giants player Michael Strahan (see "Football Helmet Hits and Brain Injury - What...
January 20, 2012
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Science for the Future On the USA Science and Engineering Festival blog, founder Larry Bock addresses the "declining number of young Americans entering the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)." The Festival expo will take place April 28th and 29th, aiming to...
January 17, 2012
Uncertain Principles
On Blogs and Voices The always interesting Timothy Burke has a post that's basically a long links dump pointing to two articles about the state of humanities in academia, which includes a sort of aside that is more interesting to me than either of...
January 16, 2012
Dean's Corner
Hidden Value of NY Giants Commercial Breaks MetLife Stadium: NY Giants vs. Washington Redskins, Dec. 18, 2011 (my own photo.) The New York Giants-Green Bay Packers divisional playoff last night had a whopping 40.1 million viewers, with numerous commercial breaks, some amusing, some annoying, some dull....
Uncertain Principles
Science: It's What's for Breakfast SteelyKid and I have developed a weekend routine: I make pancakes (with her help in mixing and occasionally measuring ingredients) on Saturday morning before we head out (usually to SoccerTots, but the last couple of weeks to birthday parties). On...
January 15, 2012
Dean's Corner
Not everything Tim Tebow Does on One Knee is Controversial Photo source, Stephanie Taylor. Denver Broncos Quarterback Tim Tebow, as discussed in my last post has captured America's attention because of spectacular athletic skills and his - some say - shameless display of his religious faith....
January 13, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
... and the envelope please ... The Research Blogging Editor's Selectionies are out! Hosted by Krystal D'Costa, this award is roughly similar to the Academy Awards, but for blog posts about peer reviewed research. And I won one!!! My post "A word or two about tobacco, and some neat and new...
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