A voice crying in the wilderness

• Processes (more about scientific debate) From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (494 days old)

  Something else that occurred to me this afternoon is the importance of processes. Species variation through genetic selection is a process, which has been known about for centuries, because it is used… more

• Scientific and political debates From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (501 days old)

  I said I would post something about scientific debate vs political debate. These are some very ill-formed ideas which fit into a wider complex of ideas which I’ve been thinking about for a long time, … more

• More spam From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (506 days old)

  I just got an email with the message line: ‘If you can read this, email marketing works’. Well, I COULD have read it. But I didn’t bother. I couldn’t even tell you what it was ad-ver-tising. So, it… more

• Quotation form the guru of gurus (or the guru of geeks, anyway) From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (528 days old)

  'As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.' Albert Einstein… more

• Evolution in action? From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (536 days old)

  My pet bugbear is the highly processed ‘civilised western’ diet which has taken hold in the US and UK, particularly over the last 50 years or so. Our bodies have over millennia evolved to consume cert… more

• Evolution by natural selectoin From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (541 days old)

  According to Darwin, there are two pre-conditions for evolution by natural selection to work. One is that parents have more offspring than are needed to replace themselves, and that there is genetic v… more

• Phew, wot a.... From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (542 days old)

  Quite a fun article on how the media operate. from (of course, where else?) the media. http://www.newstatesman.com/200805150018… more

• Experts From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (545 days old)

  ‘Experts’ tend to get a bad press these days. Never a day goes by without someone pontificating about some topic about which we’re all sure we’re better informed than they are. It’s easy to get a chea… more

• Grayling on happiness From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (559 days old)

  '... a state of happiness - of contentment or satisfaction - merely by itself is a negative state, a passive condition, which undermines things we value more: our striving and yearning, our improving … more

• Knowing, acting, feeling From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (562 days old)

  After reading AC Grayling on fidelity yesterday evening (which I’ve blogged about on HorC), when I couldn't sleep last night I was reading a back issue of the New Statesman and came across an article … more

• Trust and mistrust, proof and disproof From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (563 days old)

  Trust is a reciprocal relationship. We believe things said by people we trust – but we trust people who say things we already agree with. So it becomes self-reinforcing. Given that, how can we mani… more

• Freedom of choice From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (563 days old)

  How ‘free’ are our choices? Even if we have freedom of choice, we do not have freedom from the consequences. … more

• Jenray's challenge From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (563 days old)

  Jenray tagged me with this ages and ages ago - so long I can't find it now :( Here are my 7 quirks - hope they're quirky enough: 1. I’d rather eat cheese and crackers or French bread (especially w… more

• A good day From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (570 days old)

  Yesterday I shook the hand of a Tory MP. Not something I could ever have imagined myself doing, not an experience I’m in a hurry to repeat. And I agreed with almost everything he said, though most of … more

• Well, well, who'd've thought it??? From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (582 days old)

  Apparently, Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed were unlawfully killed due to extreme negligence on the part of their drunken chauffeur. I'm amazed.… more

• Beautiful spring afternoon From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (583 days old)

  Taken yesterday afternoon Hard to believe it was all covered with snow a few hours earlier, isn't it :)) (bit chilly to sit out there with my campari and soda, though!)… more

• Britain in Europe From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (583 days old)

  We Brits (or more specifically, we English), like to see ourselves as special and distinct from those pesky 'Europeans', and pride ourselves on our historical independence. But don't forget: The cur… more

• Does history repeat itself? From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (589 days old)

  History doesn’t repeat itself, only in the patterns we impose on it. Nothing is fixed, but everything is predictable to some extent. We look at the world using patterns we have observed before, some t… more

• Does history repeat itself? From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (589 days old)

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• Toilet seats From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (603 days old)

  Where I go for my writing classes on Mondays, there is one set of toilets which everybody shares. Sometimes when you go into the cubicle you find that the seat has been left up, and guess what? I put … more

• Tax disc challenge From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (604 days old)

  I got round to changing the tax disc in my car today. I noticed the only difference between the old one and the new one was that two of the digits were transposed. How long will it be before that ha… more

• thought for the day, 2 From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (619 days old)

  'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? A very curious fact it seemed, and my mind wandered to picture the lives of men who spend their time in writing books about wom… more

• thought for the day From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (619 days old)

  'Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.… more

• The delusion of control From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (626 days old)

  The truly major things that go wrong in the world – climate change, financial crises, terrorism, social meltdown, to name but a few off the top of my head – are the emergent outcomes of millions of in… more

• Hey ho From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (640 days old)

  Had another email from the Aussie woman whose thesis I didn't get to examine. She says '...don't think I ever told you how frankly awesome I found your work. Such a powerful technique and so beautifu… more

• Who are we, really?? From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (647 days old)

  I found this article really interesting: http://www.newstatesman.com/200801310022 To précis, what she is saying is that all of us, not just celebrities like Britney Spears, are being encouraged by t… more

• sounds challenging... From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (654 days old)

  I've just received an email with the subject line referring to: 'How to archive a 7-inchlongPenis' (sic) I didn't bother reading more. but I can forward it if anyone's interested.… more

• Twisted personae From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (659 days old)

  Belinda is howling at the moon. Melinda is clutching her pillow and pouting sulkily. Me, I'm tearing my hair out. and trying to scrape the barrel for a little confidence to get on with some work. … more

• About science From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (662 days old)

  A couple of weeks ago, i had the following exchange with Ranfuchs on his blog: R: Pope Benedict XVI warned scientists to beware of making alarming predictions about Global Warming without having the … more

• Frustration From CassandraofTroy in A voice crying in the wilderness (820 days old)

  The network response is diabolical this morning. It has been getting progressively worse recently, which may be something to do with what my son is doing on his computer, in which case it will be res… more

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