Float Time, Part 3
Dec 26It’s not every day that I wake up to find Patri Friedman being quoted in my local newspaper; but this story actually made the Opelika-Auburn News this morning.
Eppur Si Muove
Sep 13The purge mentality at ARI appears to be alive and well; and it seems that the doctrine of Rand’s inerrancy in matters of philosophy has been extended to include an assertion of Peikoff’s inerrancy in matters of history of science. More info here, here, and here. David Kelley said everything that needed to be said [...]
Up With Teleology! Down With Anarchy! Sideways with the Hypothetical Calculus!
Aug 24Three more blasts from the past (all a bit more recent than my blast from Oscarville): First, two papers I wrote for a science course in college: “The Temptation of Ludwig Boltzmann” (a short sf story exploring the implications of Boltzmannian probability theory – though Amazon thinks it’s something else) and “Evolution: Chance or Teleology?” [...]
It’s Only a Model
Jul 13Historians Locate King Arthur’s Round Table, blares the headline. (CHT LRC.) And despite the fact that the very existence of Arthur has yet to be established, a so-called “Camelot historian” confidently opines that the discovery of some old Roman amphitheatre “means” that “Chester was the site of Arthur’s court and his legendary Round Table.” This [...]
Walking on Sunshine
Jul 08A solar-powered plane has just completed a 26-hour flight, the nighttime portion of the flight being powered by the daytime portion – with power to spare. With an average speed of 25 mph, solar-powered flight isn’t quite ready to render jet fuel obsolete; but it’s nice to see some progress on the power-sources-that-aren’t-depleted-by-use-and-don’t-cause-so-much-collateral-damage front.
Really Silent Scream
Jun 28New studies suggest that the human fetus is incapable of feeling pain during the first six months. (CHT Der Leiter.)
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