2009 Indian SF Workshop At IIT-K: Part 1 (Getting There) My experiences as an instructor at the 2009 Indian SF Workshop at IIT-K –Part 1.
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.
Say, lovely woman, the number of bees: Bhaskara’s Lilavati Is math dirrty? Bhaskaracharya’s great mathematics textbook Lilavati gets it absolutely right. Be prepared to get moist.
