Consciousness Without Attention?

Consciousness Without Attention? A lot of these debates seem largely semantic. (Actually I tend to think a lot of philosophical disputes are largely semantic) This one appears to be more substantial.

Time on the Mormon Prop-8 Aftermath

Time magazine on the Mormon/Prop-8 aftermath.

Pandemic Side-effects

Interesting side-effect of a pandemic. All the large quantities of drugs (such as tamiflu) end up in the sewer system. What are the consequences of that? No one is quite sure.

College Tuition Inflation

What fuels college tuition inflation? According to this theory college Presidents making use of federally back college loans and inexperienced (naive) young people. Probably some truth to this. Lots of people end up at 25 with huge college loans they’ll be paying off the rest of their life if they are lucky. [...]

Mormon America is a representative of the New England Puritan cultural tradition in ‘Red America.’” Razib weighs in on Mormons, history and politics.

Mill’s Utilitarianism

Brandon on Mill’s utilitarianism. Mill was very influential on me when I was young. But I’m no utilitarian. I do think everyone should read both Utilitarianism and On Liberty. Brandon argues Mill was unlike modern utilitarians.

Genes in a post-genomic era

Genes in a post-genomic era. Single genes don’t code for single proteins. “…the average protein-coding region produces 5.7 different transcripts. Different kinds of cells appear to produce different transcripts from the same gene.” Fascinating and a must read. I need to get an updated primer on genetics. It’s evolved way [...]

Young neurons led astray

Young neurons led astray

5 Questions

5 Questions on Philosophy of Action.

Duty

“Duty has the virtue of making us feel the reality of a positive world while at the same time detaching us from it.”

Sun Change Decay?

Does the sun change the radioactive decay rate? I’m very skeptical. Things like this pop up every few years, get hyped disproportionately and then never seem to pan out empirically let alone theoretically.

Attention Restoration Theory

Attention Restoration Theory. AKA the cognitive benefits of nature. My son has sensory integration dysfunction and I think I’ll add this in to our home therapies. (He gets professional therapy but half of that is telling us things to do on our own)

Lymph node injections

Lymph node injections provide safer, faster and easier relief against hay fever. Interesting. I get injections every other week. (Mainly for tree pollen) The first 3 months was horrible. But the effect after two years is remarkable. I’ll have to ask my doctor about this my next checkup.

Kaimi on Prop-8

Kaimi on Prop-8 what does it change. His answer? In terms of things other than names not a lot.

Volokh on RFK

Volokh weighs in on RFK. The more we can get out how insane this appointment would be the more likely it is not to happen. (I emailed Orac’s post to a lot of prominent blogs and reporters - I suggest you do to)

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