Author: DXO
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My Pope’s Evolution
Great piece in the NYT Magazine called "Unintelligent Design" poking logic holes into pseudo-science creationist stuff. Here’s something I didn’t know about my pope: That is why Pope John Paul II was comfortable declaring that evolution has been ”proven true” and that ”truth cannot contradict truth.” Here’s the complete text of the Address of Pope…
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Survivors
The concept of who survives you is pretty intense. Untold cash is spent on insemination and other ways to create those to survive us. Millions of lines of text are devoted to finding mates in order to convince others to create offspring with us. In yesterday’s NYT, David Gonzalez, in the last line of the…
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Career/ Interest Day
Yesterday was "Career/ Interest Day" at CXO’s school. I did three presentations to the three sets of kids (K/ 1st Grade, 2nd/ 3rd Grade, and 4th/ 5th Grade). I made a point of telling all of the kids that evolution is a fact, not a theory (see Hands On Habitat). Here’s the text of the…
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Crash-Test Dummies
Very funny, well-writtenly wry passages in an obit written yeaterday by Margalit Fox: Samuel Alderson, Crash-Test Dummy Inventor, Dies at 90: In the 1930’s, with traffic fatalities becoming a growing public health concern, manufacturers began to explore the design of safer cars. But the new science of crash testing raised a seemingly intractable problem: to…
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Trut & Bullshit
Even though he wrote it many years ago, an essay that is getting a lot of play right now is “On Bullshit” by Harry Frankfurt of Princeton University. First five lines: One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his…