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On That New “Gay Gene” Study
First and most important point: there is no way we're going to cover in 750 words the whole of this field. Much will be left out. This small article is…
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Pascal’s Pensées, A Tour: I
Since our walk through Summa Contra Gentiles is going so well, why not let's do the same with Pascal's sketchbook on what we can now call Thinking Thursdays. We'll use…
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Discrimination Found By Statistics!
Was it Justice Ginsberg who popularized the fallacy that statistics could prove discrimination? Somebody check me on that. Busy day here. The fallacy is that statistical models which have "statistically…
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Winner Announced In What Should Artists Do About Global Warming Contest
Background Ten short days ago, we started the What Should Artists Do About Global Warming Contest. It was inspired by a performance "art" piece by one Sarah Cameron Sunde, who…
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Philosophic Issues in Cosmology VII: Is there a Multiverse?–Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Bob Kurland is a retired, cranky, old physicist, and convert to Catholicism. He shows that there is no contradiction between what science tells us about the world and our Catholic…
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Philosophic Issues in Cosmology III: Mathematical Metaphysics—Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Bob Kurland is a retired, cranky, old physicist, and convert to Catholicism. He shows that there is no contradiction between what science tells us about the world and our Catholic…
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U Penn’s Latest Conn: Religious Schools Shouldn’t Be Accredited
Tell the truth: English Departments at our "top" universities are stuffed to the quad with (A) Progressives or (B) Conservatives? Anybody claiming (B) is either ignorant (I mean this politely)…
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The Deadly Sin Of Reification! Day Three
Zeno Phobia Counting day. How many ways can you skin a cat if the number of sharp versus dull knives is this and such. Simple stuff, easy to get the…