Science
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A Laugh for a Rainy Day
Directly from davenetics: The Fishing Link According to this story scientists have found “fossils of a 375-million-year-old species of ancient fish found north of the Arctic Circle [that fills] an evolutionary gap in the transition between water and land animals.” They still haven’t been able to find any evolutionary link between the rest of us… Continue reading
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Thinking is hard work
Whew! First, from 3 Quarks, there was this, and then this, and then I asked (only half-joking) if they were joking, and Abbas Raza promised a plain-language explanation — and kept his promise. So now there is this, from Cosmic Variance. I have read it, and the comment thread, and my head is full (I… Continue reading
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Good News
The Internet fosters social contact A Pew report issued Wednesday, supports the idea the use of the Internet expands social contact: The Pew Internet and American Life Project also finds that U.S. Internet users are more apt to get help on health care, financial and other decisions because they have a larger set of people… Continue reading
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Late Night Thinking
I look and look for my notes on a lecture (years ago) by Pattiann Rogers; then realize that even if I find them, there is no certainty that my notes accurately reflect what she said. What I remember is: Science is the new religion. It is what we believe in, even when we do not… Continue reading
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Haiku and the Double Helix| What I Am Thinking About
From New Perspectives Quarterly: The role of the scientific imagination in shaping the world to come is today uncertain as the great leaps forward . . . have revived old doubts and raised new fears about the human condition under the regime of reason. . . science is under attack both from religious extremists on… Continue reading
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