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Dining with polyglot friends (he's a Sinologist who also works with Georgian and Basque and speaks a bewildering variety of Asian languages, she interprets Mongolian and speaks the most exquisite Swedish), my wife and I learned something about Mongolian cuisine and cursing.
Mongolia has kind of a…
I commented on the "throwback family" a few days ago, well, The Times (of London) has two articles which reduce the likelihood of this being a hoax in my mind. It seems clear that there is a family, highly inbred, which lives in Turkey where a number of the children walk on all fours and exhibit…
Just in case you were ever wondering what a beetle looks like on the inside, here is a computed microtomography video of a Dryops water beetle.
Other researchers are using this tool to examine the anatomy of various extant and extinct organisms. In fact, there is an online digital library of…
Theory: A word that gets used a lot in discussing science, or attacking it.
Theories are only verified hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed. [Claude Bernard, 1865,…
The third panel is very Planting-esqe. Didn't know he was a philosopher....
I mean that I didn't know that Plantinga was a mathematician. Damn inscrutable English language. You'd think I'd have some ability with it, considering my surname. But no.
I really like the one on private languages in philosophy, it reminds me of a wonderful anecdote that I read years ago in John Passmore's One Hundred Years of Philosophy. I no longer own this book and am quoting from memory so please forgive me if I don't get it exactly right.
A British philosophy once asked a German college, at a conference, why there was no English translation of Heidigger's Sein and Zeit. His German friend replied, "Because it hasn't been translated into German yet."
(Before somebody posts to say that there are now two Enlish translation, I know this and the anecdote obviously predates 1962)
What an obvious fallacy in the 5th panel. $5 times $1 is not 50,000 cents; it's 50,000 square cents. Next time you're in the USA, you just try passing off square cents at the store.
Or don't. Actually, clerks sometimes call the cops when somebody tries to give them a $2 bill.
As to the answer being Jesus:
I don't know if you have these Down Under, but there's a perennially mildly popular bumper sticker here, saying "Christ is the answer". I don't know why no one has made a modified one:
'"Christ!" is the answer.'
I think becaue people value their car's windows and finish...
I want one that says: "What was the question again?"
and another:
"God: I don't know and neither do you".