Tag Archive for ‘knowledge & belief’
Zum Bachelor in vier unschwierigen Schritten
Das von mir angebotene und erwartete Procedere bei Bachelor-Erstbetreuungen — unabhängig von Thema, Jahrgang, Fachbereich oder Hochschule.
“Have you read all these books?”
From their digital shelves on my harddisk, those books look at me no less menacingly.
Microrant: Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen
Pressemitteilung der Piratenpartei Deutschland: PIRATEN sprechen sich für Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen und Mindestlohn aus
What Is Entropy and Why Would That Be Interesting?
The state of teaching and education. One of my favorite topics.
Pigs and the Human Condition (Plus, Pigs Are Cute)
Attributes like “poisonous,” “filthy,” or “wallowing in urine and excrement” sound suspiciously familiar.
First They Came for the Comics, Now They Come for the Games
Steve Pope is still determined to become the Fredric Wertham of our time.
Sam Harris in Berkeley: Can Science Determine Human Values?
Sam Harris’s terrific presentation in Berkeley about how science is the best tool we have at our disposal to alleviate human suffering and advance well-being.
Free Will(y)
If there’s no “free will,” are humans “just” input-output machines? Not at all: the secret is complexity.
George Carlin on Customs
“Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most, their government sucked ’em away. And rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges, that’s all we’ve ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges.”
A Letter From Mark Twain: An Update on Quack, Bad Advertising Copy, and Writer’s Wrath
Mark Twain in response to a sales letter-cum-advertisement for a “patent medicine” to cure meningitis, diphtheria, and other ailments.
Homeopathy and the Central Powers of Quack
For many people, it’s not that they don’t know what homeopathy really is. Rather, they don’t want to know—without being fully aware of it—for powerful reasons.
George Carlin on Religion
“I say ‘this guy,’ because I firmly believe, looking at these results, that if there is a God, it has to be a man. No woman could ever fuck things up like this.”
Yes, Virginia, Religion Is Child Abuse
Indeed there is a hell, and children’s minds are where they built it. A recent video clip from Thunderf00t and a lengthy excerpt from James Joyce.
Lewis Black on Creationism: The Devil’s Handiwork
“There are people who believe that dinosaurs and men lived together. There are museums that children go to, in which they built dioramas to show them this.”
Pig Stories, Dog Stories, Our Stories
Every relationship is a story that does something in the world, and there is a lot that lives on in these stories, and lives on with these stories in our minds.
Bowen Technique: The Latest in Quack
In order to evaluate the efficacy of Bowenwork, it is recommended not to use magnets for 5–7 days after a session.
Yet Another Reason Why I Love PZ Myers (And Might Have to Marry Him Once Hussein al-Obama Has Instituted Mandatory Cephalopolygamy)
… in the Islamic Republic of America.
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Reality Out There!
Science builds models and tests them against what’s out there. And then we all tell stories about how that worked out.