Quick links
July 31, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under carnivalia, elsewhere, social and literary criticism
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 what they [...]
Of Texts and Titles
July 29, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under biology, philosophy, science, social and literary criticism
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.
Massimo’s [...]
Blog carnivals
July 28, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under carnivalia
Finally, I have realized there is no point in me replicating the work that Greta does so well.
Continue Reading »Police behaving stupidly
July 27, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under social and literary criticism
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 [...]
Continue Reading »Blog Project Announcement: Thank You, Popular Science!
July 19, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under biology, mind, science
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.
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