The Selfish Gene kontroversy: Dawkins, Mackie, Migley and Dawkins
This is about the kontroversy that hapened after Dawkins published his The Selfish Gene book. I was reeding Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea wen i saw a referens to the kontroversy…
Danish (and other languajes with the definit article as a sufix) and abreviations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_%28grammar%29 I noticed one thing today wile reeding Wikipedia articles (a hoby of mine that consumes a surprisingly larj amount of time). Supose one wanted to abreviate “konsentration” (equiv. of…
Calculation in the hed finding the next square and finding the meen
Calculation in the hed finding the next square and finding the meen
Good stuff from IG nobel prizes
Clasics can be found here: http://www.improbable.com/airchives/classical/ How to write a scientific paper: http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume2/v2i5/howto.htm Be sure to NOT submit it here: http://www.universalrejection.org/, found via: decision-making.moshe-online.com/asor_ra_2011.pdf (also quite funy) Apples and Oranges…
Reeding material: Peer review, open acces, open sience
For som reeson i started reeding about peer review, and i ended up reeding a lot of interesting articles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review Two quotes stand out, copyd from the Criticism section: “There…
Dawkins: “Viruses of the mind”
If u havnt red it, it is definitly worth reeding: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Dawkins/viruses-of-the-mind.html Altho i think that Dawkins is rong about th degree to wich sientific ideas show virus-like symtms. Surely, ther…
LessWrong: Intuitions and Philosophy
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Intuitions_and_Philosophy This is a great series on the role of intuitions in modrn filosofy and how fruitles that aproach is. It is both siens [science] and meta-filosofy. I agree with…
Paper: R. Lynn and P. Irwing – Sex differences on the Progressive Matrices a meta-analysis
A frend wantd this. It is a reconstruction based on a scan. Som of the tabls ar mising, but it is reedabl. R. Lynn and P. Irwing - Sex differences…
Comment to Women, Fire, Dangerous things
Lakoff, p. 148 “Let us consider a simple example of a presupposition. (a) I regret that Harry left. (b) I don't regret that Harry left. (c) Harry left. Normally, the…
SJ Gould’s “What, if anything, is a zebra?”
SJ Gould What, if anything, is a zebra? It was referencd in the Lakoff book that im reeding. Prety intersting, IMO. Has to do with how we clasify animals into…