First, the Philosopher’s Carnival is up, and my linking to Greta’s carnival round up missed it. Second, an American Scene blogger has declared the only sensible take on the Gates affair to be one that finds the situation to be not a problem of anyone being really bad, but of two men forced to do [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Of Texts and Titles
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 29, 2009
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The more I learn about the book world–the world of popular non-fiction, book reviews, title-dropping commentary piecesm and people who blog in reaction to all of the above–the more I suspect that all that really matters about a book is its title. Exhibit A: this Massimo Pigliucci post about a new philosophy of science book. [...]
Blog carnivals
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 28, 2009
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Finally, I have realized there is no point in me replicating the work that Greta does so well.
Police behaving stupidly
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 27, 2009
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My freshmen year of college, I got tear gassed because the police didn’t like where I was standing. It was Halloween weekend in Madison Wisconsin, a city fortunate to have State Street, an awesome pedestrian street with lots of cool shops, restaurants, and bars on it. Every Halloween, it became the place to go to [...]
Blog Project Announcement: Thank You, Popular Science!
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 19, 2009
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I haven’t yet read Chris Mooney’s new book Unscientific America, but based o what everyone–Mooney’s critics, Money’s friends, Mooney himself–has been saying about it, I get the impression it revives the current-science-communication-is-worthless line that Mooney, Nisbet, and their ilk have been using for awhile.