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Freddie can dish it out with the best of them: As I have said many, many times, there are good things about Apples and good things about PCs. If it makes sense to you to buy an Apple, go with god. And many Apple owners do just that, buy a product, use it and enjoy [...]
Filed under: media/culture, science/tech
Responding to the Jerry Coyne essay on science and religion that Jim and Alan blogged about last week at the Scene, Ross makes an important point: … people move in and out of religions all the time, based on experiences they’ve had, polemics they’ve read, and so forth. The belief in God is no more [...]
Filed under: philosophy, religion, science/tech
It would take a different mind than mine (*cough*razib*cough*) to comprehend the intricacies, but this sort of thing certainly warms my anti-phrenological heart: The studies in question have tended to claim astonishingly high correlations between localised areas of brain activity and specific psychological measures. For example, in 2003, Naomi Eisenberger at the University of California [...]
Filed under: philosophy, science/tech
My computer has come down with a virus, and over at TAS I try to understand the mind of the person who created it.
Filed under: personal, science/tech
Despite Cheryl Miller’s best efforts, I still don’t really understand what it is. And I don’t expect I’ll ever find out, either: like my grandparents with blogs and IM, I’m happy to go to my death never having tweeted – though with kids these days, you never know how your undergraduates will try to get [...]
Filed under: media/culture, science/tech
I’d very much like to see more details on the research mentioned in this article, which reports that the British government, out of embarrassment at having encouraged environmentally-conscious people to use cloth diapers – sorry, nappies – for such a long time, is suppressing a study that found that, unless they’re washed and dried under [...]
Filed under: environment, science/tech
Earlier today, Andrew Sullivan repeated a charge whose transparent falsity I’ve pointed out to him over e-mail before: namely, that Sarah Palin is a “liar” for having said the following to ABC’s Charlie Gibson about her position on climate change: … show me where I have ever said that there’s absolute proof that nothing that [...]
Filed under: environment, media/culture, politics, science/tech
I had come across this quote before, actually, and naturally I find it pretty unsettling. Obviously there are others of Palin’s views that are a much, much bigger deal than this one, and I still stand by my objections to a certain sort of sneering condescension toward old-timey religion, but yeah … if Sarah Palin [...]
Filed under: politics, religion, science/tech
So apparently Andrew Sullivan isn’t going to print the note I sent him this morning about Angela and my experience with pre-natal testing during her pregnancy with our son Jack: As the father of a young child, let me fill you in on the way that the average OB-GYN lays on the pressure when it [...]
Filed under: abortion, family, science/tech
Blackberry user or not, and no matter how you spin it, the Obama campaign’s “Still” ad is craptastically petty and head-slappingly stupid: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.688253&w=425&h=350&fv=usef%3D0%26vq%3Dnull%26video_id%3DbQ2I0t_Twk0%26l%3D31%26sk%3DCUIcFZc4pcRIE9rVs1Ni4YPFZhGvVVXeC%26fmt_map%3D%26t%3DOEgsToPDskJfAmnC423IKV4syXeIblBG%26hl%3Den%26plid%3DAARWxxijcPYg16yIAAACgAQoKAA%26playnext%3D0%26enablejsapi%3D1] (If it doesn’t load, try refreshing – or read a news account here.) Three things. First of all, as I have said before, the idea that John McCain’s competency with computers [...]
Filed under: politics, science/tech