viXra.org Which is arxiv.org backwards. From our pal LuboÅ¡ Motl, comes a (non-endorsed) introduction to a competitor of arxiv.org, the invitation-only “preprint” server. A “preprint” is a paper that has not undergone […]
Ways Around Peer Review: viXra vs. arXiv; Plus, a Saturday Bonus!
Attention Lawyers: New Way To Sue Over Global Warming
Remember old Ned Comer? Old Ned was a good old boy who got walloped by Hurricane Katrina. Yes, sir, it rained on old Ned and he did get wet. He took his […]
Ottawa Soccer League: Score Too High, You Lose
Ottawa has a new rule on the books for kids playing league soccer. Any team that goes ahead by more than five goals loses. Yes, dear reader, your eyes do not deceive […]
You Have To Die Of Something: Cancer Deaths to Double
The morning headline is designed to make you nervous: Cancer deaths to double by 2030: study. “My God!,” you reason to yourself before the coffee hits the bloodstream, “That means the chances […]
New Term For “Brights” Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins
A New Name The “brights” are at it again. What is a “bright”? It is not, as is by now well known to contemporary thinkers, the opposite of a “dim”, a “dark”, […]
Hume on Miracles
It’s Memorial Day, and it is not an abuse of the word “miracle” to suggest that it applies to the volunteering of the soldier who gives his life so that we might […]
The Falsely Restricted Outcomes of the Prisoner’s Dilemma
2019 — This blog is charged with Contributing to the Delinquency of Citizens. Its recent post, “The Government Should Mind Its Own Business” was found, by the ministry of free speech, to […]
Is Feminist Epistemology Different Than Male Epistemology?
Euclid gave us a gloriously simple proof that there are an infinite number of primes. A prime number, of course, is a positive number that can be evenly divided only by itself […]
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