Moonshot
Chandrayaan I is on its way to the moon.
Evolution Of The Obvious: The Foster-Kokko Model Of Superstition
Kevin Foster and Hanna Kokko’s paper claims that superstition (might) persist in a population provided it has survival value. Naturally. Some objections to these types of arguments.
Fishy Transference
A recent experiment seems to show some species of fish can do transitive inference. Specifically, they can figure out that if A outfights B and B outfights C, then A can outfight C. My goldfish writes a rebuttal.
Reason & Religion: Odd Couple Redux
Reza Aslan and Sam Harris discuss religion and reason. Let’s hug it out, bitches.
YoungUncle Wins The ALA Notable Award
Vandana Singh’s book “Younguncle Comes To Town” wins the ALA’s Notable Book Of The Year award.
The Politics Of Captain Nemo
On Jules Verne’s strange hero Captain Nemo and how Nemo’s radical history was suppressed by English translators.
Vex: An Existential Virus
Thoughts on the fabrication of a maximally effective virus. Don’t try this at home.
Tale of the Vaio
On the difficulties of getting my beloved cursed VAIO to connect to the net.
Thomas Barnett: Mapping The Next Neo-Snafu
Parsing political futurist Thomas Barnett’s semi-moronic blueprint for creating the next American century.
Review: 20 Cases Suggestive Of Reincarnation by Ian Stevenson
Reincarnation is one of those ideas that refuses to die. A review of Ian Stevenson’s empirical studies.