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“The Business of Skepticism is to be Dangerous” 18 Jun 2013 | 02:06 am
Lately, I’ve found my thoughts returning to a passage of Carl Sagan which I first read years and years ago. The business of skepticism is to be dangerous. Skepticism challenges established institution...
Delayed Gratification 9 May 2013 | 08:40 pm
A post today by PZ Myers nicely expresses something which has been frustrating me about people who, in arguing over what can be a legitimate subject of “scientific” study, play the “untestable claim” ...
Modern Evolutionary Theory Reading List 23 Mar 2013 | 02:08 am
The following is a selection of interesting papers on the theory of evolutionary dynamics. One issue addressed is that of “levels of selection” in biological evolution. I have tried to arrange them in...
“Seneca Cannot Be Too Heavy” 9 Mar 2013 | 02:23 am
Reading today’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, I got all “someone is WRONG about HAMLET on the INTERNET!” 1. Hamlet couldn’t have said anything much before the play starts, because he was off at s...
Currently Reading 8 Feb 2013 | 12:43 am
T. Biancalani, D. Fanelli and F. Di Patti (2010), “Stochastic Turing patterns in the Brusselator model” Physical Review E 81, 4: 046215, arXiv:0910.4984 [cond-mat.stat-mech]. Abstract: A stochastic ve...
In Which J.J. Abrams is Chosen to Direct Star Wars 26 Jan 2013 | 10:57 pm
“We need someone to direct the new Star Wars. Who’s hot?” “Well, there’s this guy who made a movie about a cute farmboy in the boondocks who never knew his real father, dreams of outer space, fights i...
Currently Reading 23 Aug 2012 | 08:10 pm
A. Franceschini et al. (2011), “Transverse Alignment of Fibers in a Periodically Sheared Suspension: An Absorbing Phase Transition with a Slowly Varying Control Parameter” Physical Review Letters 107,...
Evolutionary Ecology Readings 21 Aug 2012 | 05:19 am
Last November, a paper I co-authored hit the arXivotubes (1110.3845, to be specific). Since then, more relevant work from other people has appeared. I’m collecting pointers here, most of them to freel...
Precalculus -> Statistics 15 Aug 2012 | 10:30 pm
Now that 2.2 metric Ages of Internet Time have passed since Andrew Hacker’s ill-advised “math is hard!!” ramble, I figure it’s a good day to propose my own way of improving high-school mathematics edu...
“Is Algebra Necessary?” Are You High? 30 Jul 2012 | 09:48 am
“This room smells of mathematics! Go out and fetch a disinfectant spray!” —A.H. Trelawney Ross, Alan Turing’s form master It’s been a while since I’ve felt riled enough to blog. But now, the spirit...
