Jon Galloway has a post titled “Thanksgiving as a Lifestyle“, where he argues that we should be thankful for every second we have, and backs it up with three observations:
The fact the you are alive is utterly improbable in the grand scheme of things. Given what we think we know about evolution, the probability of […]
WTF is George W. Bush doing handing out the congressional “freedom” award to the Dalai Lama, the religious dictator head of a slave-owning cult? Is this what he was elected to do? “W” is a complete and utter embarrassment.
Speaking of cults, I’ve been warning you about the dangers of Scrappy Dickie Dawkins and his comrades […]
Gregor links two news articles I also noticed. The most recent says that Elephants pass the test of self-awareness, like apes, dolphins, and man. The other is about maurauding bands of violent orphan elephants. The journalist cited in NYT draws a parallel between human war orphans. The theory is that elephants actually learn civil behavior […]
So, I recently finished Dunbar’s “Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language”. Although I am not convinced about Nostratic, Dunbar gave more than enough material to convince me I was right about past/future tenses in Chinese and English. I think it is pretty obvious, and was probably common sense to people with access to Alexandria library.
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Another nail in the coffin of Doctorow’s “metacrap” arguments. I never want to see anyone citing that inanity again. Doctorow said that metadata would fail because “people are lazy”, and “people lie”. The fact is, privacy is dead, because people are too lazy to STOP their metadata from leaking, and too lazy to lie/cover their tracks. And […]