Hey, is he intruding on my territory? ;-)
An excellent article about many aspects of time, how we perceive it and what it means to us.
More like this
I was reading this account of an encounter between three cuttlefish -- a consort male escorting a female, who is challenged by an intruder -- and the story was weirdly familiar.
Lott grossly misrepresents Kellermann's study. He states that "they fail to
report that in only 8 of these 444 homicide cases could it be established
that the gun involved had been kept in the home." Kellermann et al do indeed
NOTE Since writing this post other versions of the story behind this tragic and unnecessary gun related death have emerged. See the comments below.
The conversation that emerged from this post is not obviated by the story being different, as that conversation is more general.
I wonder when this was written. The site doesn't seem to say.
It's neat how he ends with the following
Is evolution progressive?
Well, I may not be a physicist but I am an evolutionary biologist, and you had better not get me started on that fascinating question.
I doubt very much he would mean to imply that evolution has a goal or pre-specified direction. At least, he wouldn't suggest such a thing nowadays.