Category Archives: Philosophy

In the whole debate about gun laws that has been going on for so long, no one has pointed out…
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The title of this post is a purposeful riff on the title of my previous posts that discussed the possibility…
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Interesting things often happen to me in the transitional phase between sleep and wakefulness. In that twilight zone where I…
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I am certainly not the first to pose this question. Philosophers and physicists have been asking it, and often answering…
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I tend to avoid politics and religion in this blog, for obvious reasons. Both subjects seem to get peoples’ blood…
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I don’t usually get too serious in this blog, but this subject has been bothering me for some time. There…
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Like so many other people this week, I’m indulging myself in the fantasy that I could win the biggest lottery…
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Some things take on a certain resonance when viewed from a windblown, polar desert. Since I arrived here at McMurdo…
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I came across this the other day: I had seen it before, but this time I decided to fact-check it….
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I was having a philosophical discussion with another scientist one time, a friend who was well known for being logical…
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