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Bird Feeders, Pornography, and Other Evolutionary Traps 10 Jun 2013 | 03:30 am
“Examples of animals exhibiting maladaptive responses to evolutionary novel objects and becoming trapped. (A) A Cuban tree frog (Osteopilus septentrionalis) ingesting a decorative light that mimics th...
Put Your Commas On the Left, Dink-Butt 3 Jun 2013 | 04:22 pm
How Programmers See Each Other I watch a lot of holy wars with a bemused air of superiority. Programming languages and operating systems are like musical instruments, put them in the right hands and b...
Mass Effect as Great Science Fiction 28 May 2013 | 01:55 am
Cerberus For 106 hours (24 ME1, 33 ME2, 59 ME3) over the last six months, I have been exploring the epic science fiction worlds of Mass Effect (ME). I could have easily only spent 60 hours there, sinc...
Is Web Design All About Hacking or Kludging? 5 May 2013 | 10:20 pm
So I decided to spend the weekend redesigning/modernizing my lifetime project, a citation-management tool memexplex, because the site is old and ugly looking and I wanted to play with some of the shin...
Article on Gun Control Published in The Humanist 25 Feb 2013 | 10:41 pm
March/April Humanist My article Never a Magic Bullet: The Personal and Public Dimensions of Gun Ownership and Gun Violence is appearing in the March/April edition of the Humanist. Much of the article ...
In Defense of “The Big Bang Theory” 4 Feb 2013 | 10:00 am
Sheldon Fashion I love love love The Big Bang Theory (BBT). I love the intelligent science references, the highly-debatable geek-culture references, and the cameos only a nerd would enjoy. Most of all...
Carnival of Evolution #54: A Walkabout Mount Improbable 1 Dec 2012 | 02:09 pm
Mount Ranier Panorama Credit: Tyler Foote I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday dinosaur this Thanksgiving, and thank you joining me in this delightful excursion out into the wide wonderful world of i...
The Science of Mindfulness Meditation and Practice for the Rational Skeptic 27 Aug 2012 | 10:00 am
Jump to: The Science Fiction of Meditation Mindfulness Meditation Science of Mindfulness Meditation Experimentally-Observed Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation How to Meditate References The Science Fi...
Welcome to Life, A Guide for New Members of Species Homo Sapiens 30 Jul 2012 | 01:00 pm
Welcome to Life A Creative Commons Children’s Book for New Members of Species Homo Sapiens Download a PDF Version Here (9MB) Download a PPTX Version Here (14MB) I was walking through the local for...
Top 10 Books Exploring Otherness 1 Jul 2012 | 02:14 pm
Top 10 Books Exploring Otherness I hate doing top 10 lists because I am going to make some huge embarrassing oversite and I really don’t have any objective way to order what makes the list. That bein...
