Category Archives: Science

Secrets of the Ancient Blogging Masters – The Day Trip

by CK MacLeod Posted on April 12, 2011

(kind of a sample post based on the “How To“) Amazon.com: Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001 (9780679744757): Benny Morris: Books Really, read this book. Just finished the first world-scene-setting chapter that closes with the birth of … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Science, Writing | Tagged 2012 Elections, Arab Middle East, Balloon Juice, Barack Obama, Benny Morris, Birtherism, Blogs, Donald Trump, Fiscal Policy, How to Blog, Israel, Palestine, Paul Ryan, Race In America, Sarah Palin, Yuri Gagarin, Zionism | 3 Comments

On “Testing the Weird”: Not that I believe in ‘em…

by CK MacLeod Posted on October 24, 2010

…but all the above really would seem to evidence is that the first 9 items don’t “work” (don’t seem to serve those seeking to employ them) under conditions of, or in certain settings within, “modern capitalism.” We already knew that. … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged Astrology, Auras, Crystal Energy, Curses, Dowsing, Hexes, Homeopathy, Othero, Quantum Electrodynamics, Relativity, Remote Prayer, Remote Viewing, Tarot | 5 Comments

STILL LIFE WITH COMMENTARY

by bob Posted on October 15, 2010

Since the snow melted in March, yesterday’s walk was the first I saw no salamanders in the Nature Preserve. If efts sense footfalls far enough away, they run, otherwise they stop moving altogether. Now, with three hard frosts, they are digging their … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged bob, photos | 4 Comments

Slice of Life with Photo

by bob Posted on October 8, 2010

Walking in the Nature Preserve yesterday, I didn’t see this. The colors were there, and it was morning, but instead of clear light, steady rain alternated with downpours. This picture suggests what I saw a few years ago. I have … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion, Science | Tagged Life and Death Struggles, Nature, Science, The Ineffable | 5 Comments

Thinking That God Is Unnecessary Is Unnecessary

by Scott Miller Posted on September 19, 2010

Given enough time, people “caught between a rock and a hard place” try climbing up on the rock. Sometimes they have unwanted help with that, and Stephen Hawking’s recent public positioning is a case in point. When he wrote A … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Religion, Science | Tagged atheism, Ken Wilber, Stephen Colbert, Stephen Hawking | 12 Comments

…With an Unlimited Supply…..

by fuster Posted on August 29, 2010

These instructions for cooking a turkey were going to be submitted to the New York Examiner which recently ran a little food gem entitled Locusts: Who’s eating what? It is said that locusts were a major part of John the … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture & Entertainment, Science | Tagged Healthcare, Media, Stupid Nonsense, Turkey | Leave a comment

On the other side of zero

by CK MacLeod Posted on August 6, 2010

According to the Wikipedia Entry, we started to use the term “Ground Zero” for the World Trade Center site within hours of the 9/11 attacks: The adoption of this term by the mainstream North American media with reference to the … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Science, US History | Tagged 9/11, Ground Zero, Hiroshima, Terror | 31 Comments

The Moon will probably still be there later on…

by CK MacLeod Posted on June 15, 2010

Reacting to the “zeroing out” of manned space flight in NASA’s budget – something forecasted months ago, but, according to reports, now a step closer to reality – Dafydd ab Hugh sounds some familiar themes, fortissimo, from the HotAir Greenroom … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Science | Tagged Barack Obama, Constellation Program, Dafydd ab Hugh, Dextro, Obama, Space Exploration | 16 Comments

Adventures in Epistemic Opening – Manzi vs Levin and the Fate of Everything

by CK MacLeod Posted on April 25, 2010

The fancy phrase “epistemic closure” may be a bad one, and not just because it may be too fancy by half, but when Julian Sanchez applied it to the great body of American conservatism, he touched a nerve. The claim … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Science | Tagged Dextro, Global Warming, Jim Manzi, Mark Levin, Radio, Science, The Corner | 140 Comments

How little you know: The Deniable Darwin by David Berlinski

by CK MacLeod Posted on March 21, 2010

The Deniable Darwin collects essays written from 1996 to 2009 mostly on the same general theme: That the insufferable pretensions and aggressive self-certainty of science ideologues prevent us from justly appreciating how much we actually have learned about the natural … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Science | Tagged Commentary Magazine, Creationism, Darwin, Intelligent Design, The DIscovery Institute | 24 Comments

What We Find Interesting: Reply to Noah Millman on Obsolete IR Realism

Re-Statement on the World State of States, in Seven Theses, in Relation to International Relations Realism

Government by Other Means

In the libertarian imagination or, as Professor Hanley prefers, the libertarian psyche, the reduction in the power of government (or "government") means an increase in power for each libertarian or for the individual, which latter, as individuality, is presented as an ideal, but which each individual knows exclusively and therefore universally only through and as him- or herself. The libertarians do not recognize popularly sovereign liberal-democratic government as an extension of themselves, or, put more precisely, of this self. They may exploit or even admire democratic impulses and particular constitutional traditions, but their views are in this sense profoundly anti-democratic and constitutionally anti-constitutional.→

Re-Statement on the World State of States, in Seven Theses, in Relation to International Relations Realism (4)
- miguel cervantes:
  There is a touch of irony, in this whole Syrian matter, the Alawites, used the Brotherhood networks to target coalition forces in Iraq, but much like the flow of a river, years...
- CK MacLeod:
  The “classical” realist or Realist (not sure whether to use caps here) approach that Millman was discussing wouldn’t tell us ahead of time whether a power vacuum in...
Government by Other Means (1)
- bob:
  In my Parochial grammar school, the Mother Superior, Sister Mary Kathleen, would confront particularly egregious wrongdoing that required a new rule to reduce the possibility that someone...
Syria and the Neo-Imperial Interest (5)
- miguel cervantes:
  Yes, I read the piece, the key is Qatar’s running the operation, and their preference for Al Nusra, as with Bel Hadj and Bin Qumu, in the last outing, is the key.
- CK MacLeod:
  Mr. I seems to me to remain left-oriented but politically bi-curious. So he observes Marshall’s blanket anti-interventionism and reflexive “anti-imperialismR...
No wonder is thogh that he were astoned (2)
- miguel cervantes:
  I don’t think it’s possible to misunderstand political philosophy ot economy to a greater extent, now he might be closer with mercantilism, or a rentier class, but...
not discussing a conservative understanding of the sexual division of labor (5)
- CK MacLeod:
  Thanks, Robert, very well said, and good to see you around again. I’m hesitant to say anything at all, since I’m afraid of falling into that multi-thread 1,000+ comment...
- miguel cervantes:
  No, the problem lies a little differently, it is illiberal in the classical sense, distinctions between the genders are not arbitrary, Erickson and Bryant, are possibly the...

Category Archives: Science

Secrets of the Ancient Blogging Masters – The Day Trip

On “Testing the Weird”: Not that I believe in ‘em…

STILL LIFE WITH COMMENTARY

Slice of Life with Photo

Thinking That God Is Unnecessary Is Unnecessary

…With an Unlimited Supply…..

On the other side of zero

The Moon will probably still be there later on…

Adventures in Epistemic Opening – Manzi vs Levin and the Fate of Everything

How little you know: The Deniable Darwin by David Berlinski

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