A Brief History Of Pop Music
[Video: 36 Pop songs, but only 4 chords..]
And a much-needed antidote:
[Music video for Tony Levin's piece "Speedbump"..]
Am I The Next Galileo?
You have a radical idea about how the world works. The stodgy scientific orthodoxy rejects your idea. At this point, you naturally ask yourself: am I the next Galileo?
Figuring out who is right and who is wrong can be difficult and complicated. I can, however, suggest a starting point. If you have to fabricate data [...]
The Consequences of Drug Use
Kellogg Drops Phelps
Would you want YOUR KIDS to become pot-smoking Olympic gold medalists?!?
Link One, Link Two, Link Three
How to fail Philosophy 310, Metaphysics
Swimmer Michael Phelps is observed smoking marijuana. He apologized, but I like Radley Balko’s response better. I think this is the most beautiful rant I’ve ever seen.
A molecular-level view of speciation. (The post title, “Why Can’t Mules Breed?” conveys the spirit of the research, but it actually examines thale cress [...]
John Turri’s Rounding Error
This post is devoted to refuting an impressively lame epistemology paper. John Turri presents a novel line of reasoning which, he claims, allows one to gain a priori knowledge of contingent facts. The relevant section begins on page 19:
Sam considers whether the most unlikely possible event is not presently occurring. By ‘the most unlikely possible [...]
