There are plenty of serious comments to make about this. Academia Medicine appears to be a legitimate on-line journal, of a certain sort. That said, there’s no conceivable reason for me to have gotten this email. Yes, I subscribed to Academia dot edu (free version) because I needed a paper and this was the only
One last post to wrap up our travels up north a few weeks ago. This one is all about Mr. Big Food in his world. As I mentioned, he’d been invited to give the annual lecture at the Center for Philosophy of Science. First day he met with the fellows and they discussed some of
From “Chapter XIII: Recess? Never Heard of It” in Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of Farm Dogs Starts a School I wish I could excerpt this whole chapter! It begins with Bebe having a little fit because she doesn’t want to go to school. She thinks they are horrible places. She dramatically throws
A System of Instruction in Quantitative Chemical Analysis (Fresenius, 1884) Someone– probably in the late 1880s– calculated by hand how to find the percent sulfur in sulfuric acid. And the book has some fabulous illustrations of old lab equipment. Mr. Big Food just asked how it was going and I said okay. He asked, “If
I am at a meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SSPP). This particular session is on Neural Tools. I was going to skip the first talk but I’m glad I didn’t. The image is of the inside of a cell, taken with some fancy crystallography tool. Beautiful, isn’t it? If you remember
This actually sounds interesting but it started an hour ago and I’m not inclined to jump into a zoom meeting an hour late and two cups down. Mr. Big Food is in the Bunkhouse participating. He can tell me all about it. Title: Temporal Binding as a Marker of Causal Cognition in Non Human Animals
I’ve been doing some one-thing-leads-to-another researches this morning. The planners pretend that their plans are scientific and that there cannot be disagreement with regard to them among well-intentioned and decent people. However, there is no such thing as a scientific ought. Science is competent to establish what is. It can never dictate what ought to
The days of the cave man have passed. Physical strength no longer gives prowess to the individual. What the twentieth century demands is the trained intellect. The man who knows is the man of the hour. The Standard Question Book and Home Study Outlines, The Frontier Press Company, Buffalo, New York. 1919. This is the
Species from the genus Horsetails. The only extant genus in the class Equisetopsida. Kingdom. Order. Phylum. Genus. Species. There are about 20 species in this genus. According to that infallible source, this species’ common name is Rough Horsetail. Equisetopsida reproduce not by seeds, but by spores. That’s correct. A seedless plant. A living fossil. There was
It is not intended that this book be a substitute for nor a condensation of a textbook. … [T]his book’s purpose is to teach the high school student in Physics how to solve problems: the kind that are encountered in real life as well as on examinations. Graphic Problems in Physics (with Answers), James E. Frazer,
[Updated again: Please see this for a much better description of Muad’Dib’s … um, personhood. Note also that I have re-corrected the spelling of this guest at our dinner party.] [Updated misspelling of the Rodent’s name. Life is confusing sometimes.] Next up. A Doctor. Ten, I think. But I’d have to get up and go
Up at Instapundit this morning. This issue is– or rather is supposed to be– that Excel changes the formatting of gene name abbreviates: You see, genes are often referred to in scientific literature by symbols — essentially shortened versions of full gene names. The gene “Septin 2” is typically shortened as SEPT2. Excel recognizes “Sept2” as
The main thing is to understand that in a world dominated by scientific methods and inventions the history of science should be the keystone of higher education. –George Sarton in the Preface to The Study of the History of Mathematics and The Study of the History of Science (second printing, 1957). From that infallible source: George
The heavens are an open book in which the stars are the golden letters. All one need do is go out after dark and look up, to see what a wonderful and fascinating book it is, and to wish to read at least a little way in it. [From Our Wonder World: A Library of Knowledge
via Powerline’s Week in Pictures. It’s funny because Mr. Big Food and I are at a Philosophy conference! (That information is intended to explain the silence.)
Quick! What’s the first step in the good old scientific method? … … Time’s up. If you guessed, ‘ask a question‘ or ‘form a hypothesis‘ I’m sorry to be the one to tell you, but you are wrong. The first step is observation. Grass is green. What is the mechanism by which blades of grass reflect
I know I said I was growing weary of the calendar– and I am– but I feel badly that I’ve not mentioned a few items the past day or two. William Konrad Röntgen was born March 27, 1845. He discovered X-rays in 1895 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. Here’s a
You may recall I did some hard core serious research on civilization the other day. I learned that engaging in science is a necessary condition for civilization. Everybody knows you can’t do science without math. We like math here on the Farm. In fact, we like math so much that we often do it in
The Semmelweis reflex or “Semmelweis effect” is a metaphor for the reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs or paradigms. Or so say the folks at Semmelweis Society International. From The Timetables of American History (1981): 1848: Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis, Hung. physician, discovers the cause of puerperal fever;
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