Seen via BoingBoing
Still noodling with notions, slowly.Today's inspiration is this paper showing Economists are bastards. (OK, not quite... but read the paper.)I suspect:...that the experimentally observed differences...
View ArticleSeen somewhere
From this news blurb, reference to a paper showing that Evolution is an expression of Thermodynamics."Natural selection for least action", By Ville R. I. Kaila and Arto Annila;...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Article 22
Seen here, an analysis on intelligence versus belief in evolution. The axis on the left side increases with doubt about evolution.One quibble in two parts on the methodology: the use of a vocabulary...
View ArticleElections are Hell, too
A thought has wandered through the strange and twisted landscape of my mind of late. I have no professional qualifications to write on this topic. However, that doesn't stop most bloggers, so why...
View ArticleArticle 20
Procedures make for predictable solutions, if sometimes more time-consuming in particular cases. The reduced information costs of predictable behavior in theory may reduce overall costs, even if...
View ArticleEconomics insight of the day
Prompted by some political irrelevancy which now escapes me, an aphorism from ECON 201 wandered through my brain today: "The value of a thing is what it will bring."Quoth I, "wrong."I believe the more...
View ArticleArticle 17
Summary of a Scientific paper on human brains while doing Science. Self-referential science at its best.
View ArticleArticle 16
doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1182"Evolution of trust and trustworthiness: social awareness favours personality differences"The evolution of social awareness. Ayn Rand was a moron.
View ArticleWord of the day...
"Metathesiophobia": The persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of change.
View ArticleStupid UVA Mac Geek Tricks
ITC has taken down the instructions for piece of deep magic for UVA Mac OS X Users; I've reconstructed them.To use Apple's Network Utility to query the UVA directory via "whois", open Terminal.app and...
View ArticleA couple videos which caught my eye...
On the difference between an open mind and an empty headSame dude, talking about evolutionYou guys don't understand. You've already lost. The current generation doesn't care.
View ArticleYou have a decent introductory education in mathematics when...
...you understand all of these jokes without having to resort to reference materials.For those who do not yet have a decent introductory education, go poke around Wolfram's Mathworld for a bit.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Article 11
Since it doesn't seem to have sunk in the first time...You guys don't understand. You've already lost. The current generation doesn't care.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Some fun with the GSS
Jonathan Haidt of UVa's psychology department has some interesting ideas on morality. The central-seeming paper on this is When Morality Opposes Justice: Conservatives Have Moral Intuitions that...
View ArticleTo perhaps save someone else some research....
I noticed (after commends closed) in one of the many religion-and-science threads over on Fark.com yet another dubious-seeming "quote":Sir Isaac Newton predicted that men would someday travel as fast...
View ArticleMac OS X.5 Printing
One of the crawling bits of wonky in OS X for those still stuck with X.5 (such as PPC computer users) is that with some of the more recent patches, the computer asks for an _lpadmin password when...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Some notes on the "Rise of the Nones"
Over the last couple years, there's been more than a few pieces on the "New Atheism" and the "rise of the Nones". Of course, discussion should bear in mind that these are two different things. The Pew...
View ArticleArticle 5
An interesting passage by Karl Marx, translated from his 1847 Wage-Labor and Capital (a precursor to Das Kapital), talking about America:In my present position I could scarcely be justified were I to...
View Article
