Following my problems with 56 as a convincing argument, Steven Thomson has some thoughtful comments one why physicists might have skills they can offer other fields.
h/t ScienceSeeker.
A Review of Methodology in “Biblical Entheogens” at Archaeoporn saves me the effort of writing a similar post. Basically the biological/psychological aspects might be sound, but there’s no real historical or archaeological context to the idea. Without that, as…
There’s an article that bothers me this week in New Scientist(subscription). It’s written by an intelligent person and published by some intelligent people. Yet when I read it, it seems utterly trivial. My first reaction is that I’m missing the point, but I can’t see where. The article is “The…
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There was an interesting page in News @ Nature yesterday. Ruth Ludwin, a researcher at the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network at the University of Washington in Seattle, has been studying stories from the Salish people of the North American west coast about a’yahos, a…
The advantage of writing entries days in advance is that when you go over the top there’s time to re-think before the post goes live. It’s handy because ‘interdisciplinary’ is a word that can make me rant. I didn’t know exactly why for a while until I read Steve…
