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Love Of Theory Is The Root Of All Evil
Love of truth, on the other hand, is the root of all that is good. Bill Whittle at PJTV very kindly produced a video entitled "Best. Sentence. Ever." (it…
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Squirrel Arrested For Stealing Nuts: Nonhuman Rights Entail Nonhuman Responsibilities
Wesley Smith writes at the Weekly Standard: [T]he annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science hosted a panel supporting the Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans, which…
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There’s An End On’t! Gazzaniga’s Who’s In Charge? Reviewed: Part II
Read Part I Statistical Measurements And speaking of measurement, first a word from our sponsor, BrainView Magnetic Window3, the world's leading manufacturer of fMRI devices, the machines which produce colorful…
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There’s An End On’t! Gazzaniga’s Who’s In Charge? Reviewed: Part I
Who's In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga On the evening of October 10th 1769, in one of his typically curt dismissals of…
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On Corrections In Science
Somebody attributed to Max Planck, a constant1 source of wisdom, the saying that science advances funeral by funeral. This is a pithy condensation of his more famous quotation: A new…
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Sloppy Language About What’s True: Part III
Today, a technical interregnum, a necessary pause for proof of that claim that each of us must come equipped with knowledge that cannot be learned. Stuff that is only known…
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Inuitionist Math & Probability: Riemann Hypothesis Example
The principium tertii exclusi, the principle or law of the excluded middle, what is that? If there is a proposition B then it is either the case that B is…
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A Synthetic What? Lady Who Won Lotteries Is Statistician, More
Last big travel day. Off to the blue crammed into motorized sardine cans. I'll begin looking at comments and email tomorrow. Medical Science Advances On Bottoms Turns out that I…