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Category Archive: Science
May 09 2013
“We”?
So Daniel Loxton comments on his tent. I found it exceptionally revealing, just not in the way he probably intended. (From another commenter) Again, it would result in much less heat to declare that atheism/religion in not wiyhin your focus or interest, rather than insisting on a controversial position that plenty of scientists apparently don’t …
May 09 2013
John Shook weighs in now
And he offers a historical perspective on Skepticism and Religion. Enlightenment theologians had to strike a bargain with scientific skepticism since they were terrified by a different, far older kind of skepticism: ancient Greek Skepticism. This rationalistic skepticism demanded high standards of provability before accepting anything as knowledge. The basic idea for a rationalist skeptic during …
May 09 2013
Sean Carroll is wise
In a piece explaining why he won’t take Templeton money, Sean Carroll says why promoting godlessness is important. It’s how the universe works, something quite fundamental to how science operates. Think of it this way. The kinds of questions I think about—origin of the universe, fundamental laws of physics, that kind of thing—for the most …
May 09 2013
For the ambitious budding cancer biologist
I’m teaching cancer biology in the fall, and if you want to get a head start over the summer, here are the texts we’re going to be using: Biol 4103: Cancer Biology Introduction to Cancer Biology, by Robin Heskith Cambridge University Press, 1st ed. ISBN 978-1107601482 The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, …
May 09 2013
“Testable claims” is used as a “religious exemption”
The skeptics are circling the wagons. I knew they would. It’s what they always do to defend their naive version of “science”. Stephanie Zvan has a good post rebutting Daniel Loxton’s defense of the skeptical delusion that atheism is “unscientific”. I can summarize his argument briefly: “I’m an atheist, skeptics have gone after some religious …
May 08 2013
If you want to raise hordes of zebrafish…
…like I do, here’s a useful resource: Regular Care and Maintenance of a Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Laboratory: An Introduction. It’s text and a video guide to familiar procedures. Unfortunately, it also assumes you have a commercial zebrafish rack, which if you buy the smallest size available, will set you back about $10,000. I’ve just been …
May 08 2013
Ooh, handy shortcuts against climate change denialists
Very useful: it’s a list of 154 denialist claims with short rebuttals to each. Bookmark it, everyone!
May 07 2013
Did a bat land on you at the Kelso Depot in the Mojave Desert?
Boosting signal on this, because it’s potentially very urgent and the person at risk could be anywhere in the world at this point. A week ago, on April 30, a visitor to the Kelso Depot in the Mojave National Preserve had a bat land on his neck. The bat — a Myotis lucifugus a.k.a. little …
May 07 2013
The first day of the rest of my summer!
It’s going to be a good season, I can tell already. It’s finals week, so I’ll still have an abrupt pile of grading to do on Thursday, but otherwise, my teaching obligations are done for the semester. Now I’m trapped, trapped I tell you, in Morris for almost (I do have two quick trips to …
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