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Thrilling Annotations of Wonder! 21 Apr 2013 | 01:13 pm
This is what we do here: we comment on all that is awe-inspiring, passing judgment where it seems appropriate on what seems hopeful, perilous, beautiful, or doomed.
Follow My “Gleaming Retort” on PLoS BLOGS 21 Dec 2010 | 01:12 pm
Looking for more of my latest comments on science, medicine and technology? I’m also blogging regularly for the Public Library of Science on its PLoS BLOGS science blogging network. Visit me there at ...
Never the Twain 24 Aug 2010 | 01:12 pm
Irony doesn’t come much easier than this. Saturday’s New York Times featured an article on “The Overconfidence Problem in Forecasting,” about the almost universal tendency for people to think their as...
The Speed of Neurons: a Study in Contrasts 24 Aug 2010 | 04:45 am
Over at Neurotic Physiology—one of the spiffy new Scientopia blogs , as you surely already know, right, pardner?—Scicurious offers a helpful primer, in text and diagrams, on the basics of neurotransmi...
Pakistan’s Floods, Global Warming & Global Security 20 Aug 2010 | 12:27 pm
Next time someone seems skeptical of the idea that anthropogenic climate change represents not just an environmental threat, or a threat to economies, or even a human catastrophe, but an actual threat...
The Nicest Thing I’ll Ever Write about the Creationist Museum 19 Aug 2010 | 01:07 pm
Dinosaur, I guess, outside the Creationist Museum Kentucky’s Creationist Museum, notwithstanding its stated goal of reaching out to those beyond the Young Earth Biblical creationist community, can m...
This Just In: Web Still Alive 19 Aug 2010 | 09:28 am
Just yesterday, Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff’s article “ The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet ” was officially posted on Wired.com. In it, they argue that the rise of apps for smartphones and i...
How to Build a Brain Wrong 18 Aug 2010 | 01:10 am
Image by John Pavlus Ray Kurzweil, the justly lauded inventor and machine intelligence pioneer , has been predicting that humans will eventually upload their minds into computers for so long that I ...
Do Open Networks Threaten Brands? (Pt. 2) 12 Aug 2010 | 10:30 pm
Previously , I slightly differed with David Crotty’s good post about why open blogging networks might be incompatible with the business models of established publishing brands, particularly for scient...
Do Open Networks Threaten Brands? (Pt. 1) 10 Aug 2010 | 12:49 am
Inspired by David Crotty’s post at the Scholarly Kitchen , the indomitable blogfather Bora Z . tweets : For the most part, I agree with the individual points and criticisms that David raises. Whethe...
