Bring more science into your life with scientific knitting...
This comes via Virginia Postrel where she examines the new glamorous scientist.
That makes the extraordinary success of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which begins its eighth season this month, all the more remarkable. Unlike its direct spin-offs and numerous imitators, which are more-conventional cop melodramas, the original CSI has at its core an eccentric scientist: obsessive, brilliant, objective, and self-contained. "Oh, I have outlets," says Gil Grissom. "I read. I study bugs. I sometimes even ride roller coasters." What a nerd.
More like this
An alert reader pointed me at
href="http://www.uncommondescent.com/philosophy/what-is-intelligence/"
rel="nofollow">a recent post over at Uncommon Descent by a guy who calls
himself "niwrad", which argues (among other things) that life is
This will be of interest to many of you:
This is a press release from the Center for Inquiry:
I've been a bit derelict in my blog reading lately, so I overlooked this post by Wesley Elsberry.