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This blog will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 … | 08/15/2010
I have been blogging since January 2004 but of late my heart hasn’t been in it. So I’m taking the opportunity of a new school year to hang up my shield and move on. I may return someday, either here or elsewhere, but for the foreseeable future, you can consider me a non-blogger. Best wishes [...]
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David Hull (1935 – 2010) | 08/12/2010
John Wilkins is reporting that the noted philosopher of biology, David Hull, has passed away. I first read Hull’s Science as a Process (1988) as a break from writing up my zoology PhD in 1993 and it opened me up to the world of history and philosophy of science. Indeed, it left me cursing the [...]
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A Mammal for Your Monday | 07/27/2010
Ring-tailed cat, Bassariscus astutus. Native to Arizona. <source> Filed under: Mammals
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Reviewing “A Meaningful World” and “The Darwin Myth” | 07/26/2010
I have just finished reviewing A Meaningful World: How the Arts And Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature (IVP , 2006) by DI fellows, Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt, for Reports of the National Center for Science Education. I’m not going to post the full review until it appears in print, but here is the [...]
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Have they learned nothing? | 07/24/2010
File this under “This Will End Predictably”. Livingston Parish (Louisiana) is looking to teach creationism in public school science classes. Problem is that they keep explicitly mentioning creationism thus clearly falling foul of Supreme Court rulings. Jan Benton (director of curriculum) stated that the Louisiana Science Education Act allows for the teaching of “critical thinking [...]
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Why #SbFAIL has been good and a status update | 07/22/2010
Frankly, one of the up-sides of #SbFAIL is that a number of the people I care about are now blogging here on WordPress and it has actually become easier to track what they are posting and the comments I’ve made on their blogs. So that’s an up-side. As a reminder, here are the Sciblings who [...]
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Nyctereutes lockwoodi | 07/21/2010
Back in December, I noted the announcement of a new species of raccoon dog (Nyctereutes lockwoodi). The paper is now online and, as we suspected, the species is “[n]amed after the late Charles Lockwood, for his contribution to our knowledge of the genus Australopithecus in South and East Africa as well as his role in [...]
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On “PepsiGate” and #Sbfail | 07/21/2010
I take no pleasure in watching what is happening to Scienceblogs. The vast majority of my time there was pleasurable, tainted only by the actions of a minority who managed to poison the community (and were allowed do so by the notional management). Now the self-same management are watching the ship go down due to [...]
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Philosophy rarely has anything to do with it. | 07/08/2010
Source. Filed under: Bits and Pieces
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*gurgle* Scienceblogs *gurgle* | 07/08/2010
Been quiet here for a few weeks now, mainly because I just ain’t been feeling it regards writing online (and the World Cup has been a more compelling time-sink). In the past month – while I was essentially offline and not posting anything meaningful – there were still over 200,000 visits for the post that [...]
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