Falsification and Questions

Well, it’s nice to see Scientific American doing a little philosophy of science for a change, even if it’s really old philosophy of science. As Stephen Turner said in another post, nice… Continue reading…

On horizontal transfer of code in biology, and on complexity in general

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21973-y

So, I’m looking at this paper (above), and what it looks like to me is that it is another way of thinking about the idea of the horizontal in the construction and expression… Continue reading…

Eclipse Talk

From Aug. 21, 2017

https://www.nasa.gov/eclipselive#NASA+TV+Public+Channel

So, the eclipse is cool, yah. What strikes me about watching the coverage on the NASA channel and on the networks that are running it, is that they are… Continue reading…

Science and Politics

From Dec. 9, 2016

https://www.city-journal.org/html/real-war-science-14782.html

Well, I think it’s safe to say that I disagreed with pretty much everything in this article, but the reason for posting it is that it is at least… Continue reading…