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Monday, April 27, 2015

About Science…IX

Good morning! Hope you’re well rested, and if not – I don’t mind if you bring your coffee into class, I always do… As so often, we’ll begin by answering questions again! Where there are questions, there’s brain activity – always a good sign, isn’t it? I’m not sure how far we’ll get – we’ll see… I’ll... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 26, 2015

About Science…VIII

Hi guys, nice to see still a few bodies around…Oh, and that lady in the back there – would you mind terribly? Yes, you! Would you stop filing your nails, please? Come and see me in my office after class… Some of you made some interesting comments the other day, so let me deal with them first. Vt... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 23, 2015

About Science…VII

I had planned to discuss some other matters; but I received so many comments to the previous lesson, that I am virtually forced to respond. But in order to keep things manageable, I’ll restrict myself to just two for today. The first comment was Justi’s, and she writes: “There are many, many... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

About Science…VI

So far so good! I’m glad that not all have dropped this course yet – it’s no fun talking to a row of empty chairs… Today I’m going to say a few words – again, mostly simple words – about a distinction that is important in some respects and not so in others – that between the so-called Natural... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 20, 2015

And then there was Ben…Thinking things over…

We’re all familiar with it: We’ve got to make a decision about something, maybe something we want to buy, and we do. Then it starts – we begin to think about it…Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea – we should have picked the other one! We ponder the pros and cons, and after a while we decide – dammit,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 16, 2015

About Science…V

So far we have sort of established that science is asking questions in a certain way, in a disciplined way, in order to get answers – there is a reason why we speak of various ‘disciplines’ in science – each ‘field’ has its own ways, its own tools, although there’s also a lot of overlap. It’s also a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

About Science…IV

Everybody awake? Good, ‘cause remember – there will be a test at the end of this course, and I really hate having to flunk people… Today we will be introducing a couple of big words, but as you’ll see, they’re not quite as big as they pretend. 'Validity’ and ‘Reliability’ - almost sounds like... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

ISIS Camp a Few Miles from Texas, Mexican Authorities Confirm

This might be of interest especially to our Americans… As you know, I keep my ear to the ground, as it were, making use of sources few people visit. I even have some local sources here in T.O., people who tell me things, but for the most part the stuff you read here is gleaned form the web and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 12, 2015

About Science…III

Okay, let’s take a step back, if you don’t mind…The comments to the previous posts had far too many ‘big words’ in them - ‘theories’, ‘hypotheses’ – as a matter of fact, I don’t even like the word ‘conclusions!’ Scientists rarely talk about ‘conclusions’ – other than possibly in a paper to be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 10, 2015

Oenothea

“In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,” as Tennyson tells us in his poem “Locksley Hall”, and even slightly older ones are sometimes so afflicted. And given these general thoughts, I was thinking and mulling the question. ‘Who is the sexiest woman you have ever seen?’... Sign in to see full entry.

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