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February 28, 2006
Rewinding the same clock permlink
Category: Evolution
Here is a popular press piece on Geert Vermaij's paper in PNAS where he argues that evolution is not highly contingent process on particular historical events, in other words, if you rewound the clock and let it flow the rivers...
Posted by Razib at 1:05 PM • 0 Comments
February 27, 2006
Crazy delicious! (update: or nasty bitches?) permlink
Category: Blog
This new Science Blog is hilarious. I love their tagline! Update: OK, I take it back. What kind of dreamworld do these bitches think they're living in? I post something EDT giving props to their blog, and they're still on...
Posted by Razib at 1:59 PM • 3 Comments
Fisher web permlink
Category: Genetics
Just found this web site that has a good bibliography of R.A. Fisher's work. Good supplement to the R.A. Fisher digital archive. Why do I obsess with Fisher? First, ANOVA is ubiquitous. Second, stories like this would shock & awe...
Posted by Razib at 2:49 AM • 2 Comments
February 26, 2006
Conservatives and Christians for evolution permlink
Category: Creationism
Nathanial Blake, editor of the conservative campus publication at Oregon State University, has a good piece addressing the issue of evolution and evangelicals over at the Town Hall website. He points out that even C.S. Lewis, that exemplar of modern...
Posted by Razib at 5:57 PM • 13 Comments
February 24, 2006
Levitt full nelsons Fuller permlink
Category: Creationism
Norm Levitt throws an excellent broadside against Steve Fuller (yes, it is a polemic, but a delicious one!). Update: Ron in the comments suggests we be cautious about accepting Levitt's jeremiad in its totality. He concludes: And from our own...
Posted by Razib at 9:19 PM • 17 Comments
February 23, 2006
Modes of religion permlink
Category: Culture
I've been blogging a lot about "religion" recently, but I haven't reallly spelled out what I mean by religion. The answer is many things. Religion, or religious belief and practice, are a suite of behaviors and concepts which explore a...
Posted by Razib at 7:29 PM • 9 Comments
Naturalistic biological evolution permlink
Category: Evolution
The "standard model" of intellectual history presents the Presocratics as the pioneers of naturalistic explanations of the universe around us. This narrative explains how the messy natural philosophy of the Presocratics gave way to the more metaphysical and ethical schools...
Posted by Razib at 1:35 AM • 8 Comments
February 22, 2006
The nature of religion and Breaking the Spell permlink
Category: Cognitive Science
A few science bloggers have referred to Daniel Dennett's new book, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, and the controversy that is erupting around it. I haven't read the book, but this piece in The Boston Globe gives...
Posted by Razib at 6:10 PM • 6 Comments
Book review in Science and Spirit permlink
Category: Genetics
I have a review of Nick Wade's Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors coming out in the May/June issue of Science & Spirit magazine. Wade's book covered the intersection of genetics and human evolution, so it...
Posted by Razib at 3:43 PM • 0 Comments
February 21, 2006
Politics Quiz permlink
Category: Politics
Below the fold are the results from a politics quiz I took. Nothing surprising, but just a testament that Seed is politically latitudinarian.......
Posted by Razib at 10:41 PM • 14 Comments
Dancing parameters permlink
Category: Genetics
Biology is sloppy. I always say "all parameters held equal" or "all variables controlled" because there are so many factors to consider. I am now reading a classic, The Genetics of Human Poulations, by L. L. Cavalli-Sforza and W. F....
Posted by Razib at 9:15 PM • 0 Comments
The society of science permlink
Category: Culture
A few days ago Janet posted on the importance of critical faculties in science in response to a series of posts by PZ and John on how we get the public to understand science (mostly evolution in this case). Critical...
Posted by Razib at 8:45 PM • 19 Comments
Selection at work? permlink
Category: Evolution
A story in The Economist, titled the fertility bust (in the "Charlemagne" column), offers this interesting tidbit: Germany is something of an oddity in this. In most countries with low fertility, young women have their first child late, and stop...
Posted by Razib at 6:50 PM • 7 Comments
Technical issues permlink
Category: Blog
I've increased the security of comments (required email, etc.). This might cause issues, more here....
Posted by Razib at 5:07 PM • 1 Comments
February 20, 2006
The story of symbolic algebra permlink
Category: Cognitive Science
Chad is not happy with my previous post where I consider that we shouldn't expect that everyone should be able to pass algebra conditional upon a deep understanding of the subject. First, let me state that my post was in...
Posted by Razib at 2:07 PM • 25 Comments
