When Platitudes Collide
I haven’t posted here much since I started Philosophy Sucks! but I wanted to discuss something that was brought up on this blog a while back and so I thought I’d do it here (though I have talked about it before, to a different end). In consciousness studies there are two …
NA-CAP 2007
I recently went to NA-CAP 2007 at Loyola University in Chicago. Since I lack the time to write much about it, here is an interesting short report on it by Matt Butcher, one of the participants.
Some Free Online Teaching Tools
At the recent NA-CAP conference, I was reminded of two nice teaching tools that are available online for free:Inquiry, mostly developed by Peter Bradley (currently at McDaniel College, though the bulk of the project was carried out at Washington University in St. Louis).The Mind Project (check especially under curriculum), mostly developed by David …
Giving Conservative Scientists a Bad Name
Have you ever cringed at the cavalier way your students cite Wikipedia? Wait until they start citing Conservapedia. Conservapedia is an online encyclopedia modeled after Wikipedia, but ostensibly aimed at promoting a “conservative” point of view. Unfortunately for scientifically literate conservatives, what these people seem to mean by promoting “conservatism” …
Building Remote Controls for Brains
Using genetic engineering, photosensitive proteins, and light. In today’s NYTimes.
Multiple realization of quantum computation?
A couple of weeks ago I went to this year’s TSC in Budapest. While I didn’t enjoy it as much as I did last time in Copenhagen (though Budapest, even during a heat wave, was quite enjoyable), I liked some of the talks, as in the discussion, you can hear …