From Paul Myers comes a link to a new blog by University of Chicago physicist Sean Carroll. From his academic webpage, it's obvious that he is interested in the intersection of religion and science and I hope he writes on that subject extensively on his blog. Welcome to the blogosphere, Sean.
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Here's an interesting review of the movie that gets Carroll's perspective on it. It mostly gets it right, especially in its argument that this movie is an attempt to swiftboat science.
"If you have a losing hand, you're going to use every amount of rhetoric you can to distract people from the fact…
Bora asks a bunch of people why they blog. Since various and sundry other people have asked me the same question over the years, I may as well answer and be done with it.
I blog to be part of what Brad Delong calls the Invisible College:
I am greedy. I want more. I would like a larger college, an…
I'm a fan of the Volokh Conspiracy, the group legal blog that features some excellent thinkers, but today's edition has an odd juxtaposition. First, Juan Non-Volokh (who recently announced he would not be blogging anonymously much longer, as I recall) posted an endorsement of Charles Krauthammer's…
Gabrielle Lyon is the Executive Director and Cofounder of Project Exploration. But the story is much longer. She went to grad school (U. of Chicago) with my brother and he thought that Gabe and I would be interesting to each other due to our shared interest in dinosaurs. So we got in touch and…
Thanks for the link. I feel as if somehow my topology has changed with my entry into the blogosphere. (How many dimensions is that?)
Sean, you've wandered into a metaphorical black hole from which your spare time cannot escape. A gravitas well, if you will.