Last week, I was late getting up my class post for biology of mind, finally got it up Tuesday, but didn’t link to what I had written. So here it goes: comments on a Scientific American piece on two scientists’ views on the neural correlates of consciousness. This week, I was wondering what I’d do, [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Carnivalia
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 26, 2008
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*The 27th Humanist Symposium *The 6th Carnival of Elitist Bastards
The end of annonymity
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 23, 2008
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Last week, one of the campus newspapers had a story the website JuicyCampus.com, which advertises itself as “the place to spill the juice about all the crazy stuff going on at your campus. It’s totally anonymous – no registration, login, or email verification required.” Some people didn’t like it, but I could see the allure… [...]
Evading airport security
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 23, 2008
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Via Andrew Sullivan, security expert Bruce Schneider argues most airport security measures haven’t made us safer. I link because the article contains information which will be useful for fleeing the country in the event of fascist takeover.
Skeptic’s Conference
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 23, 2008
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The BLOGOSPHERIC SKEPTIC’S CONFERENCE is a bi-weekly conference for bloggers to present their latest work on skepticism. PROGRAM The program for the 98th Blogospheric Skeptic’s Circle is as follows: Andrea, The Sum of Good Intentions.” The addition of good intentions to bullshit fails to transmutate bullshit into anything else. This finding is supported by multiple [...]