Nobel Prizes Need Revamped?
Do the Nobel Prizes need revamped? I think so – merge the Fields Medal in with Nobel Prizes for instance and separate out more general biology and medicine/human biology. I’m more skeptical of prizes that merge politics and science.
Chronic Pain after Surgery: the Psychosocial Factors
The psychosocial factors correlated with chronic pain after surgery.
Evolution and the Categories of those who Believe
Interesting post looking at the demographics of those who reject or accept evolution. Very interesting how many more women than men reject evolution among both conservatives and Republicans.
Heidegger, Hume and neo-Kantism
Understanding the Continental/Analytic philosophy split in terms of Hume’s influence on Kant and Heidegger’s inversion of neo-Kantism. Very interesting post. (HT: Enowning)
Razib on Mormons and Evolution
Razib on Mormons and Evolution He suggests that the reason so many Mormons say they reject Darwinism is because of influence from our political peers in conservative politics. I suggest an other interpretation (repeating a post of mine from last winter). That said I do think there’s something to be said for Razib’s theory of [...]
Negative Subliminal Messages Work
Negative subliminal messages work. Well, in a limited sense anyway. The grandiose claims of subliminal advertising still seem pretty dubious to me.
Lengthen the School Year and Sleep In
Interesting post up at New Majority. The first is this: heed the scientific research about teenagers’ sleep patterns and reverse the crazy trend towards an earlier and earlier start of the school day. The adolescent brain is not operating at 7:20 am, much less at the 6 am wakeup call for 7:20 arrival. It’s not [...]
Quest for the Historical Jesus
Cognition and Culture on the Quest for the Historical Jesus. I like his quote of Meier noting that people want everything to be relevant for today whereas much makes sense only in his particular circumstances.
DNA & the Cohens
DNA and the Cohen (Aaronic) modal haplotype. Interesting – especially the bit about the lineage not being quite as uniform as some theologies would like.
Religion and Cognition
Religion and cognition. Not a lot new – especially if you’ve read Atran. But now it’s got the sexy fMRI stamp of approval!
Ardis on the Handcart Rescue Lesson
Ardis has up two posts on this week’s Sunday School lesson about the Martin and Willie handcart companies. The first is a discussion of the controversy. The second is Ardis talking about how she taught the lesson. The lesson went reasonably well in our ward, if a tad sentimental at times. Although the error Ardis [...]
Ligers
Why Ligers are so big. I always wondered about this.
German Mind
Brandon at Sirus posted a funny quote by Duhem on Kant: Highly skilled at deduction, the German mind is poorly endowed with common sense. It has a limitless confidence in the discursive method, whereas its confused intuition gives it only a weak assurance of the truth. Read the full quote and discussion at Sirus. He [...]
Vernacular Lanugage
“Vernacular language is simply too infused with human-centered metaphor…” Interesting discussion relative to speculative realism. While positivism gets a lot of scorn (much deserved) the one thing it did do, I think, it try to cut down to a language less tied to such metaphors. Of course it couldn’t ultimately escape human metaphor which I [...]
The Only Books Worth Buying are Ones You’ve Already Read
Maverick Philosopher has up an intriguing and short post. He asserts you should never buy a book you haven’t read. That is only have in your library books you’ll read again.
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