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Ridiculous “Reporting” in the News and the Naturalistic Fallacy 27 Aug 2013 | 02:07 am
I was directed to this article at NaturalNews.com about the artificial sweetener Aspartame. The headline is “Patent confirms that aspartame is the excrement of GM bacteria.” So what? Natural mutati...
Sunday Starlinks 26 Aug 2013 | 03:37 am
Classes resume this week — Cosmology on Tuesday for me — and trying to finish up a few research projects before the tsunami hits. I blog about the question of whether science fiction kills interest i...
Sunday Starlinks 18 Aug 2013 | 11:54 pm
I’ll be brief today, as I’m behind schedule on a proposal due in a couple of days that could fund Launch Pad for a couple of years. Still a lot of hours to put in on it today. I did manage to catch Ki...
Now an NPR Article Dumping on Pinker and “Scientism” 15 Aug 2013 | 03:40 am
The article is The Power of Science and the Danger of Scientism by Adam Frank, posted yesterday. To the extent I can follow this wordy but shallow critique of Pinker, it has something to do with how ...
Ten Fortean Songs 14 Aug 2013 | 03:46 am
A friend of mine was requesting songs of a Fortean bent — cryptids, UFOs, the occult and generally weird shit, that sort of thing. I thought I’d oblige with a blog post. The Sasquatch Song by Tenacio...
Sunday Starlinks 12 Aug 2013 | 03:34 am
Finally on time! Sitting down to write this…but I shouldn’t! Arse longa, vita brevis. Maybe the real death test device (not the overblown one in the link) is a pressure pad in your chair. Over at Ama...
Science, Scientism, and the Humanities 9 Aug 2013 | 12:16 am
Steven Pinker has a rich, articulate, and inspiring view of science and “scientism” at the New Republic, in which he implores those in the humanities to welcome scientific thinking and techniques into...
What it looks like leaving Earth in a spacecraft for real 7 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
Thank you NASA’s Messenger Mission! Share/Bookmark
Monday Starlinks 7 Aug 2013 | 01:50 am
Got back late from an out-of-town wedding yesterday (which was fun) and just crashed to watch Dexter and The Newsroom last night, leaving the links for today. Well, actually I watched one other show,...
Superman Was Raised in Kansas, Right? 4 Aug 2013 | 12:11 am
Superman has the reputation for being a boy scout, with small town American values, being raised on a farm in Kansas. With me so far? What if the values he adopted were the fundamentalist Christian ...
