Many people who know me will agree with what I  say here; yet many will not. It is for the latter that I write (yet another obvious fact stated so that people who know better will know that I know that what I'm writing is obvious).

It is a testament to the abysmal American education system that nearly 200 years after the birth of Darwin, a majority ( Read more... )

There's an interesting comparison between McCain and Obama on several scientific questions here: http://sharp.sefora.org/innovation2008/mccain-obama/.

it's probably no surprise that Obama tends to be more pro-science in general, but there are two sets of quotes that are especially telling, on of course, evolution:

McCain:

Question: Should [intelligent ( Read more... )

I just had my big 39 birthday. I'm about to have my first child. I feel so old and young at the same time. That is I feel young but I'm old. Coincidentally, I just discovered this cool little utility on facebook (thanks to Spelt, who really is out of his league on scrabulous), and it's something I've wanted to do for a while: catalog all the cities ( Read more... )

Today I joined unity08.com.

The U.S. electoral system is trapped in a quagmire. Everybody involved knows it. They know it's bad. They know it threatens to contaminate and even destroy the essence of our democratic republic (if it hasn't already), but they cannot free themselves from it.

Fortunately, technology has made it possible for you to free ( Read more... )

(c) Denver Dash, 2007 ( Read more... )

Alright, I don't have a clean criterion for what types of words are likely to win my personal "word of the year" award, this year being the first award. This year, I chose a word that I have recently been made aware of as having special significance in illuminating many salient issues of the day. My word this year is Tribalism. A blurb from the ( Read more... )

Why do we make facial expressions? Is it totally because of the evolutionary advantage they gave early humans in communicating (e.g., They could communicate silently during hunting)? Probably that is part of it, but is there more ( Read more... )

Hi. Welcome to my journal. Please note that most of what I write here has not been researched whatsoever, so are likely to be totally incorrect. These are just thoughts that for some reason or another have popped into my head, and for which I need some outlet to express them.

Thanks for stopping buy and PLEASE leave a comment, if nothing else so I ( Read more... )