The puzzle goes like this: young student actor Wiley Wiggins, star of the trippy, philosophical film Waking Life, walks into a bar. There he finds University of Texas Professor of Philosophy Louis Mackey, who muses on two kinds of human suffering: those that suffer from an “overabundance of life”, like…
Today, the Boston Globe reported that NASA is "canceling or delaying a number of satellites designed to give scientists critical information on the earth's changing climate and environment." The paper further reports that The space agency has shelved a $200 million satellite mission headed by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
The discussion this week about cognitive dissonance has gotten me thinking about creationism, a religious "theory" that virtually screams with cognitive dissonance. Let's look at how creationists game the gaps in the fossil record. Let's imagine we start with two fossils -- we'll call them A and Z to illustrate…
The Onion does it again. All of you old-fashioned scientists should take a look and learn a thing or two.
This zany bit really hits the mark. It's short (about 4 minutes). Enjoy!